104 MR. D. OLIVER ON THE LORANTHACEJX. 
stellate pubescence, the upper side of the leaves at length glabrescent. 
Leaves shortly petiolate. Peduncles shorter than the branches from the 
fork of which they spring. 
3. N. 1ncanus.— Viscum incanum, Hook. Ic. Plant. i. t. 73. 
Hab. Brisbane River, Queensland, Fraser. 
4. ? N. rLoccosus.— Viscum floccosum, Thwaites, MS. 
6. Tu»Era, Ch. et Schlecht. Linnea, ii. 203. . 
Flores dioici. FI. masc. Perianthium 4-partitum ; stamina 
libera, filamentis elongatis, antheris ellipticis bilocularibus 
longitudinaliter dehiscentibus. Fl. fem. Perianthium 4-loba- 
tum, lobis eaducis; stylus validus, sejungens stigmate capi- 
tato. Semen albumine copioso. 
One New Zealand species ( 7. antarctica). Dr. Lauder Lindsay 
sends a narrow-leaved form from Otago. 
7. ARCEUTHOBIUM, Bieb. Fl. Laur. Cauc. Suppl. 629. 
Flores dioici. Fl. mase. Perianthium 3-, 4- v. 5-partitum ; an- 
there sessiles, uniloculares, rimula transversa dehiscentes. 
Fl. fem. Perianthium bidentatum ; stigma sessile.— Species 
aphylle. 
Includes A. oxycedri from Southern Europe, Western Asia, Cali- 
fornia, the Rocky Mountains, and Mexico. A plant of Seemann’s 
from N.W. Mexico (2138) seems to be the ¢ of a distinct species. 
Hendler, New Mexico, 283, may be another species; but more 
material is needed for the determination of these. 
8. PHORADENDRON, Nuttall, Journ. Ac. Phil. i. 185. 
Flores dioici vel monoici. Fl. mase. Perianthium 3-fidum; 
anther lobis imis adnate, transverse biloculares, poris 8. 
rimulis verticalibus duabus dehiscentes, v. interdum rimulis 
confluentibus uniloculares. FZ. fim. Perianthium 3-lobum 
(rarius 2-4-lobum), lobis persistentibus ; stigma sessile, ob- 
tusum.—Frutices sepius foliosi, paucis aphyllis. Flores 
sessiles, spieati, rhachi plus minus immersi, spicis interdum 
abbreviatis.—Spiciviscum, Engel. Pl. Fendl. 58, et Karst., “nec 
Engelm.” Fl. Columb. 73, t. 36 ; Allobium, Miers, A. N. H. 
ser. 2. viii, 178. 
All American, so far as I hays had opportunity of ascertaining, 
extending from the United States (Ph. flavescens) and California, 
through Texas, Mexico, West Indies, to Peru and Drazil. Engel- 
