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(1) I. OBTTJSA. (Meiesn.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. XV. p. 251. 



Spec. Chae. Climbing : leaflets acute at the base, oval, 

 rounded, very obtuse, deeply ribbed, almost velnless, and with 

 the branches glabrous : drupes globose-oval, tawny-tomentose. 



Peninsula. 



GENUS XVIII. CASSTTHA. 

 Enneandria Monogynia. Sex: Syst : 



Beriv. The Greek name of the Cuscuta, which this resembles. 



Gen. Chab. Mowers hermaphrodite : calyx urceolate, 6-cleft, 

 persistent, outer lobes smaller, often dwarf, tube at last sub- 

 globose, fleshy : stamens 9, in 3 rows, inserted on the throat : 

 uniform : filament short, broad : anther ovate, 2-celled : outer 6 

 stamens introrse, without glands at the base, inner 3 extrorae, 

 with twin sessile glands at the base, adnate to the filament, alter- 

 nating with 3 triangular or glanduliform, stalked, or rarely sessile, 

 staminodes : ovary enclosed in the tube of the calyx, free : style 

 short : stigma small, depressed : caryopsis somewhat fleshy. — Leaf- 

 less, parasitic herbs, twining round other plants : leaves abortive, 

 dwarf, scale-shaped : flowers glomerate, or spiked, or capitate, 

 seldom fascicled or racemose, sometimes panicled, each with 3 

 bracts, small, 



(1) C. riLiPOEMis. {Lmn) 



Ident. Linn. sp. ed. I. p. 35. — Dec. prod. XV. p. 255. 



Mngrcw. "Wight's Icon. t. 1847.— Eheede Mai. VII. t. 44.— 

 Hook. Ex. flor. t. 167. 



Spec. Chae. Parasitic, herbaceous, leafless ; stems long, 

 twining, from a papilliform root : flowers small, in simple or com- 

 pound spikes : fruit l-seeded. 



Common everywhere in hedges. 



ORDER CXXXII. MYRISTICACEiE. 



Flowers dioecious : calyx 3-lobed, sometimes % — 4 lobed in 

 the same plant, lobes valvate in sestivation : stamens 3 — 18, 

 often 6 — 12, monadelphous, filaments connate,- anthers alter- 

 nating with the lobes of the calyx, linear or oval, 2-celled, 

 dehiscing lengthwise, adnate at the back or base of the stem 

 of the filaments, often connate, sometimes free from the 



