96 MR. D. OLIVER ON THE LORANTHACES. 
or petiolar portion of the scale while doing duty as a bract. The 
scales subtending the g flowers are early deciduous, though, as 
the leaf-buds are scaly, we find the developed leaves, as in the 
9 plant, terminated with dry scales. 
Enzworzris, Grisebach. 
The appended Synopsis shows that I have had imperfect material 
for the study of this genus, having access ouly to g flowers of 
E. verrucosa and 9 of E. punctulata. The former are in small 
axillary strobili, each flower in the axil of a scale-like deciduous 
bract, and enclosed by two lateral bracteoles (absent in Lepi- 
doceras). The perianth I always find 5-partite. As Grisebach 
describes Eremolepis (8) with ‘calyx tripartitus, he may have 
borrowed this character from the figure in the Atlas to ‘Fi. 
Chilena." 
The bark of E. verrucosa is studded all over with minute pa- 
pille, which, when traced up the petioles and to the lamina of the 
leaves, appear to be due to an altered condition of the stomata. 
This recalls the parallel case of Myzodendron, in which genus, 
as in Eremolepis, we have a single species differing from its con- 
geners in the presence of these remarkably hypertrophied organs. 
M. punctulatum, however, being aphyllous, does not so readily 
permit the observation of a graduated series between the normal 
and tubercular stomata. The leaves, as observed by Grisebach, 
are destitute of apical squame. I doubt if the Cuban plant of 
Wright be correctly referred here by Prof. Grisebach in his 
‘Plante Wrightianz, 192. The plant is monecious, though not 
so described. The perianth-lobes of the 9 flower are persistent ; 
and there are some other points of difference. I do not venture 
to separate it under a new name. We must await further disco- 
veries before finally settling what to do with it. 
GENERA or LORANTHACE. 
1. Nuyrsra, R. Br. 
Fructus monospermus, siceus, trialatus. Embryo cotyledonibus 
3-4 inzqualibus. 
N. floribunda, R. Br., we have from Murchison River, Swan 
River, and King George's Sound. Of the JN. ligustrina, A.C., 
of Mueller's * Fragmenta, ii. 130, from New South Wales, no fruit 
has been seen that I am aware of. It remains therefore a doubtful 
congener. 
