Viscum.] I CXXXIL LORANTHACER, (J. D. Hooker.) 225 
I doubt this being anything but a form of V. orientale with the main branches 
angled and grooved and leaves much waved. 
6. V. ovalifolium, Wall. Cat. 489; branches stout terete, leaves 
petioled very coriaceous elliptic or oblong rarely ovate obtuse 3-5-nerved, 
owers dicecious P crowded in axillary sometimes spicate clusters, perianth 
lobed, fruit oblong-ovoid. DC. Prodr. iv. 278; Kurz For. Fl.ii. 325. 
V. obtusatum, Wall. Gat. 494; DC.l.c. . 
TrNassERIM, Griffith, Lobb, &c. ANDAMAN ISLANDS, Kurz. MALACCA, 
Griffith (Kew Distrib. 2739), Maingay (Kew Distrib. 696). PENANG, Wallich.— 
Disrris, China, Ava. . 
This resembles a very large stout form of V. orientale with larger very thickly 
coriaceous leaves 2-4} in. long, and more numerous flowers clustered at the axils 
and nodes, Perianth 4-merous.—V. ovalifolium (and V. obtusatum) are reduced to 
varieties of V. orientale by Miquel, Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 1, 805, perhaps correctly. 
7. V. capitellatum, Sm. in Rees Cycl. xxxvii ; dwarf, branches short 
terete very stout, leaves shortly petioled ovate obovate spathulate or orbicular 
yncave above obscurely 3-nerved tip rounded base cuneate upper smaller 
linear-oblong, flowers 3-6 terminating solitary fascicled or whorled pedun- 
cles, fruit ovoid. DC. Prodr. iv. 279; Wight & Arn. Prodr. 380. V. 
mangiferæ, Wight in Wall. Cat. 6878. V. verticillatum, Herb. Rottl. 
Dxccaw PENINSULA ; from Canara at Sindolé, Ritchie, southwards. CEYLON, 
common, Thwaites. 
. ` À small species, forming much-branched tufts 6-10 in. long and broad, often 
Parasitic on other Loranthacee. Leaves 4-1 in. long, and often as broad, apparently 
fina hts wanting, Peduncles very variable in length, j in. or less; bracts 
Nnded, 
8. V. ramosissimum, Wall. Cat. 6876; branches terete very long 
and slender, leaves 0 or very few sessile petioled obovate or linear-oblong or 
“cuneate tip rounded base cuneate obscurely 3-nerved, flowers 1-3 minute 
Sessile, fruit subglobose minute. Wight §& Arn. Prodr. 380. 
Deccan PENINSULA ; on the Ghats and low grounds, from the Concan southwards. 
? SINGAPORE, Murton. CEYLON; on Rhododendron at Maturata, 7'rimen. " 
Branches 10-18 in. long, striate; internodes 1-2 in. long, nodes hardly swo, tha 
‘Contracted. Leaves 1 in., coriaceous, only one or two pairs at the bases o M e 
main branches in a few specimens, the majority are leafless. —It is not easy to dis- 
ünguish some specimens of this from V. angulatum. The Singapore specimens are 
Imperfect ; if not ramosissimum, they are probably an undescribed species. 
M Leafless. Perianth-lobes deciduous. 
` V. angulatu Heyne mss.; DO. Prodr. iv. 283; leafless, 
branches angled long and slender nodes not swollen or contracted, flowers 
: We minute sessile solitary or whorled at the nodes, perianth-lobes ey oo 
wht & Arn. Prodr. 380; Dalz. § Gibs. Bomb. FL 110; Benth. Fl. 
astral. iii, 396; Miguel Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt, 1, 806; Wall. Cat. 49 mr 
“Hennatum, Herb. Hohen. n. 1478. V. ramosissimum, Wight Ic. t. 1017. 
Drocay PENINSULA; on the Ghats and low grounds, from the Concan southwards. 
DISTRIB. Java Australia. i i 
ks abit of V, ramosissimum, but never so slender as that sometimes is, and aways 
à fless as far as is known; main stem terete, branches acutely 4-angled or (when 
ry) many-angled below, 
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