Viscum. | CXIX, LORANTHACEE (SPRAGUE), 411 
wrinkled in a dried state, up to 24 lin. in diam.; internodes up to 3 in. 
Jong, the uppermost more or less compressed. Flowers diccious, tetra- 
merous. Male inflorescence consisting of 1-2 3-flowered cymules, each 
of which is borne by a bracteal cup. Bracteal cup shallowly trough- 
shaped, 13-21 lin. long, about 14 lin. broad, ciliate. Solid base of the 
flower 3 lin. long. Receptacular tube about ? lin.long. Petals ovate- 
deltoid, { lin. long, {-1 lin. broad. Anthers trigonous, elliptic or elliptic- 
oblong in outline, 7 lin. long, $-3 lin. broad. Female plant not known. 
Mozamb. Distr. Rhodesia: Matoppo Hills, about 5000 ft., Zngler, 28464! 
V. matabelense may possibly prove to be the male plant of 1’. Menyharthii, 
Orper CXX. SANTALACER. (By J. G. Baker and 
A. W. Hill.) 
Flowers hermaphrodite or subdiccious, regular, perianth simple, 
green or corolline, sometimes fleshy, adnate at the base to the ovary or 
the disk; lobes usually 4-5, valvate, with a tuft of hairs on the face. 
Stamens as many as the perianth-lobes, inserted at or below their base ; 
anthers in the Tropical African genera with 2 parallel cells dehiscing 
longitudinally. Disk epigynous or perigynous, ovary inferior, 1-celled ; 
ovules 2-3, pendulous from the apex of a free-central placenta; style 
short or cylindrical; stigma terminal, capitate or 2-3-lobed. Fruit 
indehiscent, dry or fleshy. Seed globose or ovoid; testa obsolete ; 
albumen copious; embryo central, oblique; cotyledons usually sub- 
terete; radicle superior.—Herbs, shrubs or trees, often parasitic. 
Leaves usually alternate, entire, exstipulate. Inflorescence axillary or 
terminal. Flowers minute, usually greenish. 
Species over 250, spread through the Temperate and Tropical regions of both 
hemispheres. 
Flowers hermaphodite. 
Fruit dry . ‘ “ “ ; . ees ¢ J. THESIUM. 
Fruit succulent . 2. OSYRIDOCARPUS. 
Flowers sub-dicecious  . ‘ : é r ° . 8. OsYnis, 
1. THESIUM, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Pl. iii. 221, 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth-tube adnate to the ovary and 
forming a cup above; lobes usually 5, valvate, with a tuft of hairs on 
the face. Stamens 5, inserted at or below the base of the lobes; fila~ 
ments short, slender; anthers ovoid or oblong, with 2 parallel cells 
dehiscing longitudinally. Epigynous disk inconspicuous. Ovary 
inferior; ovules 2-4, pendulous from the apex of a slender flexuose 
placenta ; stigma capitate or obscurely 3-lobed. Fruit dry, globose, 
crowned with the persistent perianth. Seed similar in shape to the 
fruit; albumen fleshy ; embryo central, usually oblique; radicleas long 
4s or longer than the cotyledons.—Herbs or undershrubs, often parasites. 
Leaves in the Tropical African species linear, subulate or reduced to 
