Henslovia.] CXXXIII. SANTALACER., (J. D. Hooker.) 233 
females without stamens, Stigma pulvinate, sessile, obscurely lobed.—I find no 
difference between A. De Candolle’s var. Sikkimensis and the Khasia plant. The 
bracts are not more than half a line long (about 4, in.). 
.2. H. heterantha, Hook. f. & Thoms. in Herb. Ind. Or.; branches 
smooth or sparingly pustulate, flowers sessile on the top of very short 
solitary or clustered peduncles which are bracteate at the base and tip only, 
the bracts at the tip forming a spreading involucre, males numerous, females 
l or few, fruit small elliptic-oblong, pyrene 5-6-furrowed. A. DC. Prodr. 
xiv. 632 (excl. syn. H. JSrutescens); Kurz For. Fl. ii. 328. P H. umbellata, 
Blume Mus. Bot. i. 213; A. DC. l.c. 680. Viscum ? heteranthum, Wall. 
Cat. 488; DC. Prodr. iv. 279. `V. latifolium, Ham. in Don Prodr. 142; 
DCLe V. platyphyllum, Spreng. Cur. Post. 47. 0. 
CENTRAL and EASTERN HIMALAYA ; Nepal, Hamilton, Wallich. SIKKIM, alt. 
2-5000 ft., J. D. H. ? Peau and MARTABAN, alt. 4-7000 ft., Kurz. —DiISTRIB. 
ava. . 
A small parasitic shrub, with erect and spreading rough usually pale-brown 
branches, often minutely pustular. Leaves very variable, elliptic ovate or rounded, 
1-4 in. long; sometimes as broad and orbicular, 5-9-nerved, narrowed into the petiole. 
Flowers about the size of H. granulata; females without or with very imperfect 
stamens; stigma very shortly 5-lobed, subsessile. Fruit red, tasting of Pyrus 
eueuparia in Sikkim (1 in. long and less); yellow in the Martaban plant, Kurz.— 
Kurz describes two. varieties from Martaban, Aeterantha proper, with 5-merous sessile 
9r subsessile flowers, and coriacea with 6-merous shortly pedicelled. flowers. The 
ong Kong H. frutescens, Benth., united with heterantha by A. DC., is, I think, dif- 
ferent, haviug fewer nerves, a much larger fruit,and pedicelled male flowers: it is 
described as terrestrial. 
ar. P sessiliflora; flowers quite sessile.— Khasia Mts., on Oaks near Nowgong. 
3. H. Lobbiana, 4. DC. Prodr. xiv. 631; branches terete twining 
Smooth or faintly granulate, male flowers very minute few spicate, 
wards the tips of short strict clustered peduncles which are bracteate only 
at the base and under each flower, females on short fascicled bracteate 
Pedicels, fruit globose or shortly oblong, pyrene nearly smooth obscurely 
-furrowed, stigma stellately 5-lobed. istri 
N Penana, Lobb. 3 on the top of Government Hill, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 
9. 1315), Curtis. Matacca, Griffith, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1313). — 
me creeper according to Maingay, some of the branches of whose specimens are 
Wining, Leaves from obovate-spathulate to orbicular, very coriaceous, dark bortly 
when dry, Peduncles of male spikes 4-} in. long; flowers sessile or very shortly 
Pedicelled, so in. diam., subglobose.  Pedicels of female 7-35 in. long; bracts very 
minute in both sexes Perianth-tube ‘of female longer than the pedicel; lobes 5, 
each with a stamen.—I have described this from Lobb’s specimens (No. 334), which 
"i from Penang (not Singapore), as are those of Maingay and Curtis. 1 do not 
he the leaves to be punctato-verrucose beneath as described by A. De Candolle, nor 
© perianth-lobes ag pilose. 
4 H. varians, Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. i. 244, t. 43; branches 
. terete twining nearly liar male fl. ra pihaa or clastered on stout 
peduncles which are bracteate at the base and under each flower, females 
Vu pedicelled, fruit shortly ellipsoid, endocarp 5-furrowed and rugose, 
vas, C- Prodr. xiv. 631. ? H. philippinensis, A. DC. l. e. Dendrotrophe 
veri Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 780. - 
-, NASSERIM ; Mergui, Gri w Distrib. 4390, 4392). Maracca, Maingay 
(Kew Distrib, 1316/2)" P Quas (Ns Mio). Dietari: Borneo. . 
ery closely allied to H. Lobbiana, but the leaves arc much paler when dry, with 
