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574 LORANTHACE (Harv.) [Loranthus. 
A root parasite. Stem branching, thick and fleshy, imbricated with scales below, 
and ending in a panicled inflorescence. Smell offensive, resembling that of rotten 
fish. The generic name is compounded of capi, flesh, and purov, a plant; a fleshy- 
plant. 
1, S. sanguinea (Sparm. Ait. Holm. 37; P. 300, t. 7); Griff. l.c. p. 
339. Hook.f. 1. c.p.37. Wedd. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, vol. 14, t. 10, f. 34-38. 
Ichthyosma Wehdemanni, Schl. in Linn. vol. 2,t. 8, 
Has. On the roots of Ekebergia Capensis and of Acacia Caffra in the districts of 
Albany and Uitenhage. 
Stems 9-10 inches high, an inch or more in diameter, dull flesh-coloured or reddish. 
Male flowers purplish. The concrete fruit resembles a mulberry. 
Orprr LXXII. LORANTHACEZ, DC. 
(By W. H. Harvey), 
Flowers bisexual or unisexual, regular. Calyx bracteate at base, 
adnate ; limb short, entire or 4-8-toothed. Petals 4-8, separate or 
more or less cohering, with valvate estivation. Stamens as many as 
the petals and opposite to them ; filaments adhering to the base or 
Shrubby plants, almost always parasitical, natives chiefly of the tropics and 
warmer parts of the temperate zones. Leaves entire, opposite or alternate, coriace- 
ous or fleshy, exstipulate. Flowers axillary or terminal, either solitary or clustered, 
or In cymes, spikes, racemes or umbels. 
TABLE OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN GENERA. 
I. Loranthus.— Flowers bisexual. Petals clawed, more or less united in a tubular 
corolla, Style filiform. 
IL. Viseum.— Flowers unisexual, minute. Petals sessile, free or connate at base. 
Style none or very short. 
I. LORANTHUS, L. 
Flowers bisexual. Calyz-limb short, truncate or toothed. Petals 
4-8, with ccmmped = or less united in a tubular corolla. 
Inserted on the claws of the petals ; filaments subulate; an- 
thers 2-celled. Ovule solitary. Style filiform 3 stigma capitate. B 
usually oe by the limb of the calyx. DC. Prod. 4, p. 286. Endl. 
A very large genus almost wholly tropical or subtropical - articularly numerous 
in South America. One Species is found in Thacher 2 foweed an generally 
bright-coloured, yellow, orange or scarlet. L. olewfolius was formerly cultivated in 
atom Gardens, Capetown. Name from lorwm, a lash of leather, and av@os, 
Corolla clothed with brittle, scabrous hairs: eayeg {) U8 
mealy ee tee vee wee ves nee eee wee 2 ovalis. 
Corolla clothed with Jlat scales; leaves mealy ie glaucus. 
