394 CXIX. LORANTHACEZ (SPRAGUE). | Visewm, 
Species about 60, all Old World, mostly natives of warm regions. 
Each axillary branch, of whatever order, has a pair of small scale-leaves at its 
very base. These scale-leaves, which are placed transversely with respect to the 
subténding leaf, are also found at the base of each axillary inflorescence. 
Each cymule and, as a rule, each solitary flower is subtended at its base by a 
peduncled or sessile pair of bracts (Gracteal cup). 
* PLOIONIXIA.—Leaves not all scale-like. 
Berry warted ; inflorescences sessile. 
Berry with a deeply lobed bracteal ie lobes 
acute or subacute 1. V. Holstit. 
Berry with a shallowly lobed hen steal cup, ibis 
rounded i ‘ . 2, V. tuberculatum. 
Berry smooth ; inflorescences peduncled or subsessile. 
Petals persistent in fruit . ; : : . 4, V. nervosum. 
Petals deciduous. 
Upper internodes conspicuously flattened, see 
ing from apex to base : 5. V. decurrens. 
Upper internodes not conspicuously flattened. 
Leaves 1-4 in. long. 
Female cymules 5-7-flowered (Eastern 
species) : 6. V. Fischeri. 
Female cymules 3-5 -flowered (Western 
species). 
Berry ellipsoid; leaves rounded at the 
apex, 14 times as Jong as their 
breadth . E : 7. V. congolense. 
Berry obovoid; leaves narrowed to an 
obtuse or acute apex, twice as long 
as their breadth . fs z . 8. V. grandifolium. 
Berry ovoid; leaves narrowed to an 
obtuse or subacute apex, 23 times as 
long as their breadth . : . 10. V. Zenkert. 
Leaves 4-4 in. long. : 
Branchlets very stout, subterete . . 11. V. Macowant. 
Branchlets fairly slender, sharply 6- 
ribbed. 
Leaves broadly ee rounded at the 
base. . 12. V. rotundifolium. 
Leaves ovate-oblong or eliptic-oblong, 
obtuse at the base. . : 13. V. tricostatum. 
: iarticulatum. 
Imperfectly known species of this section . f . ae an nies 
** Asprprx1a.—Leaves all scale-like. 
Internodes conspicuously flattened, tape-like. 
Berries sessile, 
Bracteal cup closely surrounding the base of 
the ellipsoid berry . . 14. V. combreticola. 
Ends of the bracteal cup not touching the base 
of the ovoid berry . ; : : . 15. V. ugandense. 
Berries pedicelled. 
Internodes broad, much contracted at the apex 16. V”. Englert. 
Internodes narrow, hardly contracted at the 
apex x . 17. V. shirense. 
Internodes subterete or ‘slightly compressed, or only 
the upper ones distinctly flattened. 
