248 MR. J. G. BAKER ON THE 
VISCUM ECHINOCARPUM, n. sp. 
V. ramulis tetragonis, foliis sessilibus oblanceolatis obtusis rigide coriaceis 
venis immersis occultis, floribus paucis axillaribus sessilibus, singulis 
bracteolis 2 orbicularibus cuspidatis connatis suffultis, fructu parvo oblongo 
sessili papillis duris globosis rugoso stigmate subsessili. 
Habit very like that of our European FV. album, copiously 
closely dichotomously branched. Branches terete, glabrous or 
finely downy; ultimate branchlets greenish, 4-angled. Leaves 
in pairs 3-1 in. apart, 1-14 in. long, 4—3 in. broad, glabrous, 
very obtuse, narrowed gradually from the middle to the base, 
thick and rigid in texture, dull green on both surfaces, the veins 
quite hidden. Flowers 3-4, quite sessile in the axils of each 
leaf all down the branch. Persistent bracteoles forming a small 
cup at the base of each flower. Fruit ovoid, tin. in diam., brown, 
densely beset with round hard papille. Segments of the female 
flower 4, small, deltoid. Stigma nearly sessile.—Bay of St. Au- 
gustine, Bojer! 
VISCUM MULTICOSTATUM, n. sp. 
Glabrum, ramulis angulatis multicostatis, foliis oppositis subpetiolatis 
oblongis sepissime acutis rigidis obscure trinervatis utrinque viridibus, 
floribus ad axillas foliorum paucis dense glomeratis sessilibus, singulis 
bracteolis 2 orbicularibus cuspidatis connatis suffultis, fructu parvo ovoideo 
sessili valde rugoso stigmate subsessili. 
Branchlets woody, greenish, glabrous like the rest of the plant, 
terete downwards, with many fine ribs, angled and deeply suleate 
upwards. Leaves in distant pairs, narrowed to an indistinct short 
channelled petiole, 2-3 in. long, 1-11 in. broad, usually narrowed 
to an acute point, rarely shorter and obtuse, obscurely tripli- 
nerved in the lower third, thick and rigid in texture, bright green. 
Flowers 3-6 in dense clusters in the axils of all the leaves, quite 
sessile, each subtended by a pair of minute persistent connate 
bracteoles. Male flowers 3-1 in. long, greenish, with 4 deltoid 
segments. Fruit (immature) ovoid, pale brown, very rugose, the 
papille round or muriform, wavy and confluent,the style very short. 
— Woods of the province of Imerina, Baron 465! 1070! Forest 
of Andrangaloaka, Dr. Parker! Allied to the Abyssinian V. tu- 
berculatum, A. Rich., figured in Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xxix. 
t. 45. 
VISCUM MYRIOPHLEBIUM, n. sp. 
Glabrum, ramosissimum, ramulis tetragonis, foliis sessilibus oblongis 
