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Endlicheria, Nees.* § 10. Flaviflor^, 
Oreodaphne, N. et M. N. ab E. 
Camphoromaea,N.etM. Sassafras, N. ab E. 
Strych nodaphne, 
N. et M. 
Gymnobalanus, 
N. et M. 
Benzoin, N. ab E. 
§ 11. Tetranthere.®, 
N. ab E. 
Daphnidium, N. ab E. 
Tetradenia, N. ab E. 
Cylicodaphne, N.ab E. lozosmene, N. ab E. 
Tetranthera, Jacq. 
Polyadenia, N. ab E. 
Laurus, Plin. 
Lepidadenia, N. ab E. Adenostemum, Pers. 
Dodecadenia, N. ab E. Gomortega, R. et P 
Actinodaphne,N.abE. Keulia, Molia. 
? Scyphogyne, Ad. Br. 
Order CL. ILLIGERACE^. 
iLLiGEREyE, Blume in Ann. Sc. N. S. 2. 95. (1834) ; Martins Conspectus, No. 83. (1835). 
— GYROCARPEiE, a § of Lauraceas, Nees ab Esenb. Laurin. expositio 20. (1833). 
Essential Character. — Flowers hermapdrodite or polygamous by abortion. Calyx 
with the tube adherent to the ovary ; the border superior, divided in two rows, deciduous, 
or in part persistent, and augmenting in size ; the segments with an indexed valvular aesti- 
vation. Petals 0. Stamens inserted in the top of the tube, opposite the external seg- 
ments, and equal to them in numbers, furnished at the base on each side with a gland or 
appendage, or with glands mixed among them. Anthers 2-cell ed ; the cells opening inwards 
from the base to the apex by a permanent valve. Omri/ inferior, 1 -celled; ovule solitary, 
pendulous ; style 1, simple ; stigma peltate or obtuse, somewhat oblique. Fruit indehis- 
cent ; seed nut-like, without albumen ; cotyledons leafy, twisted together. Blume. 
Affinities. Tlie only writer who has treated of this order is Blume, 
who remarks that one of the genera belonging to it has the habit of Cucurbi- 
tacese or Passifloraceae, its leaves being ternate and its stem twining; but 
that in reality the order has the same relation to Lauraceae as Vaccinaceae to 
Ericaceae. I observe that Nees Von Esenbeck in his manuscript list of Lau- 
raceous genera now omits Gyrocarpus, from which I infer that he assents to 
its forming an order apart. 
Geography. Trees or shrubs found in the tropical parts of America 
and Asia. 
Properties. Unknown. 
GENERA. 
Illigera, Bl. 
Gyrocarpus, Jacq. 
Order CLI. CASSYTHACE^. 
Laurin^, § Cassythcee, Nees ab Esenb. Laurin. Expos. 20. (1833). — Cassythe.®, Lindl. 
Nixus PI. 15. (1833). 
Essential Character. — The general structure of Lauraceae, but ; the ste7n dodder-like, 
parasitical, leafless ; flowers hermaphrodite ; the series of stamens all perfect, without 
glands ; stamens 9 ; anthers 4-celled, the 3 inner turned backwards ; caryopsis included in 
the berried perianth crowned by the converging segments. 
Affinities. Although this strange plant is universally comprehended 
among Lauraceae, and notwithstanding that the climbing habit of Illigera 
seems to justify such a measure, yet I am persuaded that we must, if we would 
preserve our orders really in a natural state separate this, as we separate Oro- 
banchaceae and Monotropaceae elsewhere. It is too violent a shock to our 
ideas of resemblance to include in the very same order a plant like our wild 
Si Endlicheriam, Presl. retines, huic nomen Schauera tribuas precor. N. ab E. 
