226 ` CXXXIL LORANTHACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Viscum. 
10. V. articulatum, Burm. Fl. Ind. 311; leafless, branches flat- 
tened, internodes 1-2 in. striate and furrowed when dry contracted at the 
nodes, flowers very minute fascicled in cup-shaped bracts at the tops of the 
internodes, perianth-lobes deciduous. DC. Prodr. iv. 984; Miquel Fl. Ind. 
Bat.i. pt. 1, 806; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 325. V. attenuatum, DC. L. c. ; Wight 
& Arn. Prodr. 380; Brand. For. Fl. 394. V. moniliforme; Blume Bijd. 
667, and Fl. Jav. Loranth. t.25 B; DC.l. c. V. fragile, Wall. Cat. 498. 
V. compre8sum, Poir. Encycl. Suppl. ii. 861; DC.'1. c.; Blume Fl. Jav. 
Loranth. t. 24. V. fragile, Wall. mss. in DC. l. c. V. aphyllum, Griff. 
Notul. iv. 634, and Ic. Pl, Asiat. t. 630, 
SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA; from Chamba, ascending to 3000 ft., eastward to 
Sikkim. Assam, MISHMI and the Kmasra Mrs., ascending to 6000 ft., and south- 
ward to TRAVANCORE, MALACCA and CEvLoN.—DisTRIB. Malay Islands. 
A pendulous much di-tri-chotomously branched green shrub, yellow or black when 
dry ; internodes very variable in length and breadth, 1-2 by 4-3 in. Flowers few 
or numerous in the cup-shaped bracts, 3-4-merous, arranged in depressed 3-fld. 
spikes, of which the lateral flowers are usually male; males with reflexed perianth- 
lobes; females bibracteolate with erect deciduous perianth-lobes. Fruit subglobose, 
yellow, smooth.—I think there can be no doubt of this common plant being Burmann $ 
V. articulatum and Blume's V. moniliforme, which latter name is usually given to 
V. japonicum. There are two states of it. 
V. ARTICULATUM proper; more slender, internodes rarely 4 in. broad. . 
War. dichotoma, Kurz For. Fl ii. 325; much stouter, internodes thicker and 
broader often j in. broad. V. dichotomum, Don Prodr. 147; DC. Prodr. iv. 284. 
V. elongatum, Wall. Cat. 495 ; DC. l.c. V. nepalense, Spreng. Syst., Cur. Post. 47. 
V. opuntioides, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 764 ; Wall. Cat. 496. Viscum sp., Griff. Notul. 
iv. 636, and Je. Pl. Asiat. t. 632. — Common in the Himalaya, Khasia Mts., the 
higher hills of Pegu, and the Deccan Peninsula.— Harvey (FU. Cap. ii. 581) gives 
this as a native of South Africa, but describes the fruit as mostly warted, which is 
not the case in the Indian plant. 
** Teafless. Perianth-lobes persistent. 
ll. V. japonicum, Thunb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ii. 329; a small - 
tufted leafless species, branches flattened contracted at the nodes, internodes 
1-1 in. long, flowers very minute fascicled in cup-shaped bracts at the tips 
of the internodes, perianth-lobes persistent. DC. Prodr. iv. 283. y: 
Opuntia, Thunb. Fl. Jap. 64. V.articulatum, Miquel Prol. Fl. Jap. 2975 
Frach. & Sav. Enum. Pl. Jap. 1. 406; Mazim. Diagn. xx. 616; Benth. an 
Hongk. 141, and Fl. Austral. iii. 396. V.teenioides, Comm. in Thou. Me 
Obs. 43; DC. l. c. 983; Baker Fl. Maurit. 135. V. moniliforme, Wig 
& Arn. Prodr. 380; Wight Ic. t.1018, and Spic. Neelgherr. t.87 ; Kurz For: 
FI. ii. 325 (not of Blume). V. articulatum, Brand. For. Fl. 393. 
Wightianum, Wall. Cat. 6877 (not of Wight & Arn.). 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; from Murree to Kumaon, alt. 5-7000 ft. Kast 
Mrs., alt. 4-5000 ft. Matacoa, on Mt. Ophir. NiraHiRI MTS., ascending br 
7000 ft., Wight, &c. CEYLON, in the most elevated parts of the Central Province. 
DisTRIB. Mauritius, China, Japan, Australia. fted 
Much smaller than F. articulatum, erect, rarely 6 in. high, usually densely te » 
very variable in the breadth of the internodes. Inflorescence as in V. articulat eu 
but perianth-segments (3-4) persistent. Fruit 4, in. long, ellipsoid.—This very Jast 
tinct species is usually referred to the Javanese V. moniliforme, Blume. Of ru at 
.I haye seen no authentic specimens, but its author describes it as abundas, ig 
Bintenzorg, where V. japonicum is not likely to be found. I have seen no Jac ty 
. specimens of V. japonicum, and it is not described in Miquel’s Flora. Miquel," ;5 
no doubt, refers Blume’s moniliforme.to articulatum, which is very common 1n acti- 
Wallich’s No. 6877 consists of several fragments of this, but there has been ** 
dentally fastened on the same sheet a scrap apparently of V. orientale. 
