LAURACEZ. : 477 
solitary ; involucre 4-leaved deciduous eed and subtropical Asia, 
Japan’). 
46. Lindera Tuuns.—Flowers nearly of Daphnidium ; perianth 
6-leaved deciduous. Stamens 9 (in female flower sterile filiform) ; 
inner 3 or 6 with 2 stipitate glands at base; anthers ovate obtuse 
2-celled, all introrse or inner sublateral. Germen free; style slender ; 
apex 2- or 3-lobed stigmatiferous. Berry supported on entire or 
6-cleft receptacle.—Trees or shrubs; leaves alternate penniveined or 
tripliveined, herbaceous, entire or 3-lobed, deciduous; leaf-buds 
perulate ; umbellules of flowers fascicled, or subumbellate or fascicled 
on a short peduncle, surrounded by a 4-leaved involucre (Zropical 
Asia, Japan, North America). See p. 438. 
47. Laurus T.—Flowers diccious or polygamous; perianth 
4-leaved subpetaloid, or more rarely 2—8-leaved deciduous. Stamens 
12; filaments all possessing a stipitate gland on each side halfway 
up; anthers all ‘introrse 2-locellate (stamens in female flower 
usually 4 sterile ligulate). Germen (in male flower 0) free; style 
short ; apex obtusely 3-gonous stigmatiferous. Berry ovate, sup- 
ported on truncate or irregular receptacle; pericarp thin fleshy; 
embryo thick ovate; cotyledons, plano-convex very fleshy oily; 
sheathing around superior radicle—Aromatic evergreen trees; 
leaves alternate coriaceous; flowers umbellulate, involucrate in 
membranous deciduous bracts; umbellules varying in number, in- 
serted on a short axillary twig, which is often gemmiparous at apex 
(Asia Minor, Canary. Islands). See p. 439. 
V. CASSYTHEA. 
48. Cassytha L.—F lowers hermaphrodite or more rarely polyga- 
mous ; receptacle thick, urceolate. Perianth inserted in mouth of 
receptacle, persistent; calyx short 3-leaved; corolla much longer ; 
leaves. orbicular concave valvate. Stamens 12, inserted with peri- 
anth ; outer 9 fertile ; 3 superposed petals and connate therewith at 
base, and 3 alternate glandless introrse ; 3 (of third row) 2- glandular 
1 Species 15. Nuxs, Syst., 577 (Polyadenia); iv. 8, 206 (Benzoin ?)—Miq., Fl. Ind.-Bat., i. 
in Wall Pl. Asiat. Rar., ii. 63 (Daphnidiwm). 962 (Polyadenia), 957 (Tetranthera).— WALP., 
—Sins, & Zucc., in Abhandl. d. Minch, Akad.,  Ann,, i. 577. 
