224 CXXXIL LORANTHACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Viscum. 
2. V. monoicum, fox). Fi. Ind. iii. 763; branches terete, leaves 
shortly petioled obliquely ovate or faleate acute or acuminate 3-5-nerved, 
flowers moncecious in axillary sessile or shortly peduncled fascicles, bracts 
cuspidate, fruit oblong. DC. Prodr. iv. 278; Brandis For. Fl. 393; Kurz 
For. FI. ii. 324; Wight & Arn. Prodr. 379 (under V. orientale); Griff. 
Notul. iv. 637, and Jc. Pl. Asiat. t. 631. V. falcatum, Wall. Cat. 492; 
DC.l.c. V. benghalensis, Roxb. mss. P V. confertum, Roxb. L. c. 
SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 2-4000 ft., J. D. H. KnasrA Mrs., alt. 0-3000 ft., 
Wallich, &c. Ganers DELTA, Roxburgh. OuDE, Vicary. MARTABAN and TENAS- 
SERIM, Kurz. NiraRIRI or Kure Hirrs, G. Thomson. 
A large shrub. Leaves rather thin, 1-5 in. long, very variable in breadth, nerves 
often strong. Flowers 1-3, minute, greenish, the lateral usually female, central 
male or absent, sometimes appearing spicate from terminating leafless shoots. 
Perianth-segments 4, triangular-oblong. Fruit the size of a pea truncate smooth 
“yellowish,” Kurz, “ blackish brown," Brandis.—Much of the above description is 
taken from Kurz. I follow Wight and Arnott in regarding Roxburgh’s V. confertum 
from Silhet as probably the same. . 
Var. ?/Edgeworthii; branches more robust, leaves very thickly coriaceous some- 
times 2} in. broad and 7-nerved.—Banda, on Zizyphus, Edgeworth.—This may be a 
different species. o 
3. V. verruculosum, Wight & Arn. Prodr. 379; branches terete 
opposite and whorled, leaves petioled obovate oblong or rounded obtuse or 
acute base cuneate 3—5-nerved, peduncles axillary 3-fld., flowers monoecious, '. 
fruit linear-oblong warted. V. monoicum ? Wight in Wall. Cat. 6875. 
D&ccAN PENINSULA ; on the Dindygul Hills, alt. 25Q0 ft., Wight. 
Branches rather slender, terete, branchlets angular. Leaves }-1} in, black 
when dry, not thickly coriaceous. Flowers as in V. orientale, of which it is (as 
suggested by Wight and Arnott) perhaps a variety, but according to Wight the 
fruit is very different, being long slender and warted. -Thwaites unites it with 
orientale, but gives no reason. f ` 
4. V. orientale, Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 737; branches terete or angled 
and grooved opposite and whorled, leaves petioled from obovate to elliptic 
oblong and linear oblong obtuse 3-5.nerved, base narrowed or rounded, 
flowers few or many in sessile or peduncled clusters moncecious, fruit glo- 
bose smooth. DC. Prodr. iv. 278; Wight & Arn. Prodr. 324; Brand. 
For, F1.393; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 324; Blume Fl. Jav. Loranth. t. 94, 95; 
Benth. Fl. Austral. iii. 396; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 1, 804; Wall. Cat. 
491. V. verticillatum, Roxb. Fl. Ind, ii. 764. V. Heyneanum, DO. l. c. 
V. indicum, Rottl. mss. * 
BENGAL, BEHAR, and CHITTAGONG, and thence southward to SINGAPORE and 
TRAVANCORE. , CEYLON ; Central Province, ascending to 7000 ft.—DisTr1B. Malay 
Islands, China, New Guinea, Australia. 
A rather large much-branched shrub, black or brown when dry ; branches often ` 
very slender, branchlets angular. Leaves rarely more than 1 ip., often unequal. 
Flowers winute, rarely more than 5. Flowers as in V. foliatum, but perianth 
usually 3-cleft. Fruit the size of a pea (Kurz), * purple, copiously minutely dotted,” 
W. & A.—I cannot distinguish between specimens wit deeply grooved and angled 
branches, and those with terete ones, there are so many intermediates. 
5. V. orbiculatum, Wight Te. t. 1016, and Spec. Neilgherr. t. 86; 
branches and branchlets acutely angled and deeply grooved, leaves petioled 
elliptic oblong or rounded much waved obtuse 3-5-nerved, flowers 3-5 1n - 
sessile or peduncled axillary clusters, fruit oblong rounded at both ends.’ 
Niteuiri Hinrs, Wight, Herb. Hohenack, 
