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Cassytha. 

 Flower laid open (mag.), 



Cassytha. 

 Fruifc, entire and cut (mag.). 





Cassytha fiUformiSt 



SparattantheUum. 

 Embryo, 



Cinnamon. 

 Fruit, entire and cut. 



Flowees 5 or polygamous. Pekianth simple, m,onosepalous, &—4r-^-Jid. 

 Stamens p&rigynous, as many as the perianth-lohes, or a multiple, alternately fertile and 

 sterile ; aitthees 2-celled or 4-locellate, opening from helow upwards hy valvules. 

 OvAET 1-celled; ovule pendulous, anatropous. Peuit a drupe or herry. Seed 

 solitary, inverse, exalbumiinous. Embeto straight, Eadiole superior. 



Teees or SHEUBS, rarely undeesheubs, aromatic, sometimes foetid, very rarely 

 aphyllous parasitic twining heebs (Cassytha). Leaves alternate, sometimes close 

 together, sub-opposite or sub-whorled, simple, entire, penniuerved, or palminerved, 

 finely reticulate, coriaceous and persistent, or rarely soft and deciduous, punctate 

 with glands filled with a volatile oil, and often pellucid ; stipules 0. Cymes 3-oo - 

 (sometimes 1-) flowered, racemed or panicled or umbelled, capitate, bracteate at the 

 base, rarely with a 4-6-phyllous or scaly-imbricate involucre^ Flowees 5 or 

 diclinous, regular, small, white or yellow or green, usually scented. Peeianth simple 

 (calyx), monosepalous, herbaceous or petaloid, rarely coriaceous, sometimes fleshy, 

 or hardened when ripe, rotate, infundibuliform or urceolate, 6- (rarely 4- very rarely 

 9-)fid; lobes 2-seriate, imbricate, equal, or the outer smaller; tube usually persistent, 

 often more or less accrescent, and changed into a cup surrounding the base of the 

 fruit. Stamens inserted at the base or throat of the calyx, definite, very rarely sub- 

 indefinite (Tetranth&ra), 3-4-seriate, reduced in ? to glands, scales, or staminodes ; 

 5 and S flowers with the outer stamens introrse, 4-6 or 9 usually fertile, eglandular 

 at the base; the inner extrorse, 2-3 usually fertile and 2-glandular at the base; 

 filaments free, or very rarely monadelphous, usually dilated at the top ; anthers ovoid 

 or oblong, sometimes acuminate from the connective being prolonged beyond the 

 cells; cells 2, parallel, often transversely 2-locellate, and opening from the base 



