904 BENGAL PLANTS. [Cassytha. 
anthers; of the fourth row replaced by sessile or stipitate stami- 
nodes. Ovary globose, in flower free, in fruit ieee covered by 
the enlarged perianth; stigma subsessile, small or capitate. 
Fruit a small drupe, enclosed in the succulent patinantle -tube and 
crowned by the ‘a limb. Seed with thin testa; cotyledons 
ailranbely con 
1789. Calsirea ritirorMis Linn.; F. I. ii. 814; F. B. I. v. 188; 
1. D. C. 805. 
Behar; Chota Nagpur; W. Bengal; Sundribuns; 
Chittagong. 
A twining, leafless parasite, stems green. Hind. Amart- 
beli; Beng. Akis-bel; Santal. Alag-jari. 
Order CX. PROTEACEZ. 
Trees or shrubs, rarely herbs. Leaves alternate or scattered, 
rarely subopposite or whorled, usually coriaceous, entire, tooth 
or pinnatisect; stipules 0. Flowers racemose, spicate or rarely 
acres hermaphrodite, regular oblique or irregular ; bracts 
mall, satis or subobsolete, or imbricate, persistent in fruit, 
is bilate ; bracteoles 0, rarely 2. Perianth inferior ; segments 4, 
at first valvately connate in a tube with gibbous base, tips free: 
recurved. Stamens 4, inserted on or opposite the perianth-seg- 
ments ; anthers erect, adnate to filaments ; dehiscence longitudinal, 
introrse. Disk replaced by 4 free or connate, hypogynous scales 
alternate with filaments, sometimes 0. Carpels forming a free, 
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indehiscent or ultimately opening on the inner edge or at the tips 
or a follicle or capsule with often thickly coriaceous valves. Seeds 
solitary or paired or few, flattened or thick ; testa membranous oF 
coriaceous, sometimes winged; albumen 0; embryo with com 
pressed or fleshy, often unequal cotyledons. 
803. Helicia Lour. 
Trees or large shrubs; leaves alternate, entire or toothed. : 
Flowers medium or rather long, in terminal and racemes; — 
hermaphrodite, regular, pedicelled and in pairs; bracts small, = 
