Cassytha filiformis L.

(Otto Degener, 8/10/ 32)
CASSYTHACEAE
LOVE-VINE FAMILY
Pamity: 138
Parasitic vines. Leaves reduced to scales or entirely wanting.
Mowers perfect, small, sessile or nearly so, regular, spicate or
racemose or capitate. Calyx 6-cleft with imbricate lobes in. 2 series
of which the outer is the shorter. Corolla none, Stamens 9; sbp
thers 2-celled, dehiscing by means of 2^ uplifting valves; stamir
nodia 3. Pistil simple; ovary with 1 ovule; style simple; stigma
?naaDL. usually capitate. At maturity the single ovary has becomi
enclosed by the enlarging calyx base to form a fleshy berry-likf
fruit. Seed large.	.	p
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A family closely related to the Lcmracëm;
PLANTS OF HAWAII
EX HERBARIUM DEGENER
HgW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
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AND ISA DEGENER
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