Loranthus.] ^ cxxxm. LORANTHACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) 223 
L. KANNELI, Schult. Syst. Veg. vii. 153; Wight d Arn. Prodr. 387; Rheede 
Hort. Mal. x. t. 5, is undeterminable, 
L. LAMBERTIANUS, Schult. Syst. vii. 118; DC. Prodr. iv. 817, is probably Z. 
pentapetalus, Roxb., if from Nepal, which is doubtful. 
L. Mrrengnim, Wall. Cat. 6865, from Madras, is an Olax, probably O. 
Wightiana. 
__L. oBovaTUS, Griff. Notul. iv.622, from Malacca, is apparently near L. globosus, 
differing in the cuneate-obovate leaves. 
+ L. punicevs, Wall. Cat. 522, from Penang, consists of a few detached alternate 
lanceolate finely acuminate coriaceous leaves, and a few detached small ellipsoid fruits : 
it is undeterminable. Wallich says it is like his Z. erythrostachys (L. pentandrus, 
L.) of Nepal. 
L. zvGvurosvs, Heyne in Roth Nov. Sp. 194; DC. Prodr. iv. 317 ; Wight & Arn. 
Prodr. 386, from the Deccan, is undeterminable, It is no doubt a Cichlanthus. 
L. SERRULATUS, Roxb. in Steud. Nomencl. Nothing is known of this. — 
L. stamensis, Kurz For. Fl. ii, 820, is a Siam plant allied to L. pentandrus. 
_L. TURBINATUs, DO. Prodr. iv. 806 ; Wight & Arn. Prodr. 886, from the 
Nilghiris, is altogether doubtful. Wight and Arnott say that but for the ealyx being 
unequally 4-cleft, it would be referred to a glabrous var. of L. buddleioides, Desr. 
eurrula, L.). 4 
; L. viscrrorrus ?. Wight in Wall. Cat. 6865, is in too imperfect a state for de- 
termination. It was communicated by Wight to Wallich, and is probably L. recurvus, 
al. I find nothing more like it amongst Wight’s plants. The exact locality is 
Cumbum in the Nilghiris, J any, 1827. 
2. VISCUM, Linn. 
, Leaves opposite, often reduced to scales. Flowers unisexual, small or 
minute, solitary or fascicled in the axils of the leaves or at the nodes of the 
branches, rarely terminal. Perianth-tube of the male solid, of the female 
adnate to the ovary ; limb 3-4-partite, segments usually deciduous. Anthers 
road, sessile, adnate to the perianth-lobes, opening by many pores. Ovary 
Inferior ; stigma sessile or subsessile, large, pulvinate. Fruit succulent, 
pericarp full of viscid matter. Embryo in fleshy albumen, solitary or 2 in 
each seed.—Species about 30, temperate and tropical. 
* Branches dichotomous, leafy, or-the lower whorled. Flowers fascicled, 
terminal in the Jorks of the branches. Perianth-lobes deciduous. 
l. V. album, Linn. Sp. Pl. 1023; branches terete, leaves obovate- 
CUneate tip rounded, flowers in sessile or shortly peduncled cup-shaped 
bracts. Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 1068; DO. Prodr. iv. 278; Brand. For. Fl. 
392; Kurz For, Fl. ii, 323. V. stellatum, Don Prodr. 142; DC. 1.¢.; 
Wall. Cat. 490. 
Ww TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; from Kashmir to Nepal, alt. 3-7000 ft.—DISTRIB. 
“stward to the Atlantic, N. Asia to Japan. . . 
x. 4 large green bush, branches jointed. Leaves sessile, very coriaceous, iat 122 in. 
long, broad ‘or narrow, obscurely 3—5-nerved. Flowers dicecious, sessi ^ 3 ina 
cluster, bracts concave. Perianth-segments 3-4, triangular, thick, acute, deciduous. 
ruit white, 4-2 in, long, ellipsoid.— Mistletoe. 
** Branches dichotomous leafi (or leaves O in V. ramosissimum). 
Flowers in axillary sessile or peduncled fascicles, Perianth-lobes deciduous. 
