Viseum.] CXXXII LORANTHACEH, (J. D. Hooker.) 227 
3 Var. eoraloides, Wight Ic. t. 1019 ; dicecious, branchlets narrower, all female.— 
iii Hills, abundant, Wight (who states that he has never found male 
OWers). 
DOUBTFUL AND EXCLUDED SPECIES. 
V. Rossum, Wight in Wight & Arn. Prodr. 380; Wall. Cat. 6879.— Wight and 
Wallich's plants consist of nothing but fragments of branches resembling those of 
V. album. The flowers are described as fascicled at the nodes, but there are none in 
the specimens. It is a native of the Dindygul Hills in the Southern Carnatic. 
;V.? HETERANTHUM, Wall. Cat. 488; DC. Prodr. iv. 279 (V. latifolium, Ham. 
in Don Prodr.142. V. platyphyllum, Spreng. Cur. Post. 47; DC. l c.), is Henslovia 
heterantha, Hook. f. & Thoms. 
V. Watticntanum, Wight & Arn. Prodr. 379 (excl. syn. V. Wightianum); 
stem and branches terete, whorled opposite or dichotomously, nodes swollen leaves 
2-24 in. flat very stoutly petioled very thick and coriaceous oblong obscurely 3-nerved 
base cuneate, flowers unknown.—There is a scrap of this in Wight's Herbarium 
without locality ; it a good deal resembles V. album, but is, I think, distinct. There 
are also fragments of it in Wallich’s Herbarium, fastened on the sheet with V. 
Wightianum, Wight & Arn. (not Wallich), and numbered 491, which is V. orientale, 
a very different plant. 
V. Wieutianum, Wight d Arn. Prodr. 380 (not of Wallich); stem and 
branches terete whorled or dichotomous, nodes thickened, leaves 2-2% in. very coria- 
Céous subsessile broadly elliptic rounded at both ends tip rounded grey and opaque 
when dry nerves very obscure, flowers unknown.—A pparently a very distinct species, 
of which there are fragments in Wight’s Herbarium without locality, and in Wallich’s 
mixed with V. Wallichianum. 
2. ARCEUTHOBIUM, Rich. 
Minute green leafless parasites, with the leaves reduced to opposite scales 
in which the very minute ebracteolate dicscious ? solitary flowers are sunk. 
ervanth as in Viscum, but 2-5-partite, and always persistent. Anthers 
globose, bursting transversely.—Species 5-6, S. Europe, W. Asia, N. 
erica, 
A. minutissimum, Hook f.; stem none but the inconspicuous stock 
that ramifies within the bark and which the minute branches perforate but 
scarcely rise above the surface, appearing as a 2-lipped cup, male fl. sessile 
i the cup 3-5-partite, fem. fl. pedicelled. 
Kumaon HIMALAYA, alt. 10,700 ft., on Pinus excelsa, Duthie. 
The most minute dicotyledonous plant that I can call to mind. 
3. NOTOTHIXOS, Oliv. 
Dichotomously branched parasitic hoary or tomentose shrubs. Leaves 
9PPosite, Hat, coriaceous. Flowers minute, monecions, in unisexual heads, 
Or spikes, like those of Viseum, but the subsessile anthers are broad, erect, 
many-celled and lobulate ? and dehisce by pores or a transverse slit at the 
"pex.— Species 4, a Cingalese and three Australian. 
‘a N. floccosus, Oliv. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond. vii. 104; densely woolly 
mentose, branched, leaves orbicular or broadly ovate obtuse, flowers 
Spi l . : saites 
Brum anthers bursting by many pores. Viscum floccosum, Thwaites 
SEYLON ; in the Ambagamowa and Ratnapoora Districts, Thwaites. 
uch branched; branches slender, young tomentose. Leaves 
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