REMARKABLE PHANEROGAMOUS PARASITES. 811 
the species of Pilostyles are restricted to the Leguminosæ, though 
preying on members belonging to the most widely separated 
tribes of that order. Below is a list of the species with the 
names of the plants on which they occur and their native countries. 
Like most parasitical types, they have a wide range, Pilostyles 
being represented in Asia, Africa, and North and South America. 
Name. Parasitic on Native Country. 
Apodanthes Casearise, Poit. Casearia sylvestris. Brazil. 
» Flacourtis, Karst. Flacourtia sp. Venezuela. 
Pilostyles Haussknechtii, Boiss. | Astragalus spp. Syria, Persia, 
and Kurdistau. 
» sethiopica, Welw. Berlinia sp. Angola. 
» Berterii, Guill. Adesmia sp. Chili. 
» Blanchetii, R. Br. Buuhinia spp. Brazil. 
» Calliandre, R. Br. | Calliandra sp. » 
» Inge, Hook. f. Inga sp. Colombia. 
» Caulotreti, Hook. f. Bauhinia spp. Venezuela. 
» Pringlei, Hemsl.* Dalea frutescens. North Mexico. 
” globosa, Hemsi.t Bauhinia lunarioides. " » 
Thurberi, 4. Gray. Dalea Emoryi. Arizona, 
* Syn. Apodanthes Pringlet, S. Wats. 
t Syn. 4. globosa, 8. Wats. 
Many other curious facts in parasitism have come to my know- 
ledge in looking up the published and unpublished accounts of 
parasites; but I have said enough to demonstrate how much 
remains to be done by future investigators of these curious plants 
in their homes. I append a few references embracing some of 
the principal contributions to the literature of the subject of 
phanerogamous branch- or stem-parasites, as distinguished from 
root-parasites :— 
Harvey, Joux, M.D. “On the Parasitism of the Mistletoe.” Trans- 
actions of this Society, xxiv. (1863) pp. 175-196. 
Buu, Henry, M.D. “The Mistletoe in Herefordshire.” Seemann’s 
Journal of Botany, 1864, pp. 361-385. 
Scort, Jonn. * The Germination and Attachment of the Loranthacez.”’ 
Journal of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India, ii. (1871) 
» 257-296. Repeated in part, with comments, in the ‘ Botanische 
Zeitung,’ 1874, pp. 129 and 145. 2. f 
Sorms, H. Gnar zv. Pilostyles Haussknechtii, in the ‘ Botanische 
Zeitung,’ 1874, pp. 49 and 65, with a plate. f . 
Sotms, H. Grar zv. Raffesiaceæ, in Engler and Prantl’s ‘ Die natür- 
lichen Pflanzenfamilien, Theil 3, Abtheilung 1 (1889); and Martius’s 
‘Flora Brasiliensis,’ iv. pars 2. 
ENGLER, A. Loranthacez, in Engler and Prantl’s work, as cited above. 
Rosinson, B. L. “Two undescribed Species of Apodanthes.” The 
* Botanical Gazette? (Coulter’s), xvi. (1891) p. 82, with a plate. Here 
referred to Pilostyles. 
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