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In alio speciiniuc otaocs partOB minores, folia elliplica 

 vel obovato-e\liptica» maxima 8 — 9 cent, loiiga* Spica^ 4 

 6-verticilJatae, magnitodiiie variae, maximae l^-arti- 



eiilatae- 



LORANTHUS L. emend. Mart, in Flora a. 1830, 



1. Loranthus vestitus. Ramis suhteretibug raraulis fiiib- 

 compreasis petioUs nervo^ne medio eabtos dense ferroginco- 

 lepidotigsimo-stibpalcaccis, foliis oppo(Wti8 vel sammis sub- 

 opposUis breyUer petiolatis crassis, inferioribng rotdndato- 

 obovatis vel ellipticis, snperioribas miaoribus elliplicis apicc 

 rotnudatis, uTiiiicrvIIs, snpra parcc venulosis, spicis axillaris 

 bo9, 1, 2 vel 3, folio brevioribos^ superioribus ob folia ab- 

 ortiva SBbpanicnUtia, rectis strictis, floribas tetrasticho-de* 

 cu^atts imviersia bractea adaata truucata suffnUis^ sepalis 6, 

 linearibns ca]yoolo brevi troDCato QQ8teiiti3f stigmate dobca- 

 pitellalo, baccis ellipticis. 



parasiticus in arbore anoiiyma SurinamensI ad OseoibOf 



m. Apri]i. 



IdOrantho spicato Jacq, -Amer, p, 97. Tah* 98. quidem 

 afBnis, sed indnmenU singnlari densissimo^ ramulorom et 

 folior"ru forma distiDctissimus. 



Jtajni vfitiistiores leretes vel irregulariler aiiguloso-tcre- 

 lloscnli; raftiuU letragono-compreasi vel ancipiles, praescr- 

 tim versos nodoa, Squamulae incrispatae ochraceo -ferrn- 

 gincae denslasimac ramos^ ramulos, petioles ex Eervura me- 

 diura iaferne investinnt. JFolia oppositaj pleraqne soboppo- 

 sita, imo aliquando enballerna, PetioU 8Qb$einitcre,tjra^* ta- 

 teribos alifjuld compressi, 5 — 2 mm. longi. Folia iofima 

 muUo latiora ct magis rotundala, sobrotnodo vel obovato- 

 rolnndata, 7Vs ^*^"'' longa, 6% lata; scqucutia miaora 

 einpfico-rolODdata ve] rjliptica apice vaJde rotundala, 4*/* 

 — 5 cent, icuga, 3^3 — 2 7*2 '^^^j summa adlwo miuora 



