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rusty-brown pubescence ; umbels racemed, axillary; racemes solitary, 

 shorter than the leaves, clothed with rusty pubescence; fruit 

 glabrous, the berry half immersed in the cup-shaped truncated 

 tube of the perianth. Wight. Ic. t. 1833. 



7. LITSAEA, Juss. 



1 . Zeylanica, Nees. — Leaves oblong or lanceolate, attenuated 



'at both ends, acuminate, triple-nerved, glaucous beneath ; ribs 



of the leaves, petioles, and young branches finely yellowish silky ; 



flower-buds globose, contracted at the base. Parwar Ghaut. 



Wight. Ic. «. 132 and 1844. 



Sub-Order.— CASSYTHACE^. 



1. CASSYTHA, Linn. 



1. FiLiFORMis, Linn. Willd. sp. ii, 487. — A parasitic, herba- 

 ceous plant, leafless, consisting of long twining cord-like stems 

 from a papilliform root ; flowers small, in simple or compound 

 spikes ; flowers like those of the preceding order ; fruit size of a 

 pea, one-seeded, a little fleshy. Hook. Exot. Fl. t. 167; Jacq. 

 Amer, Stirp. t. 79. Very common in hedges. 



CXVI. SANTALACE^. 



1. OSYRIS, Linn. 



1, WiGHTiANA, Wall. List 4036. — Shrubby, very ramous, 

 glabrous ; young shoots 3-sided, with prominent, sharp angles ; 

 leaves from oblong-elliptic lanceolate to elhptic-obovate mucronate; 

 male flowers umbellato-capitulate ; peduncles axillary, shorter than 

 the leaves, 6 to 8-flowered ; female peduncles axillary, 1 to 3-flower- 

 ed, lengthening as the fruit advances ; ovary conical ; limb of the 

 perianth 3-lobed ; style short ; stigma 3-lobed ; fruit size of a small 

 Sloe, red when ripe. Wight Ic. t. 1853. Common on the Ghauts. 



2. SPHiEROCARYA, Wall. 



1. S Leprosa, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. iii, p 34.— A tree; 

 leaves oblong, coriaceous, glabrous, rounded at the base, acute at 

 the apex ; flowers subsessile, clustered on a scaly, axillary tubercle ; 

 calyx with 5 very short semiorbicular divisions ; petals linear-acute; 

 filaments adnate to the petals ; fruit spherical, nearly an inch in 

 diameter, covered with scurfy scales. In the Warree Country ; 

 flowers in the cold season. 



