Loranthus. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 551 
devittbods grows common on. trees —— pl 
Flowers all the year. 
Leaves generally opposite, ‘ini sometimes nliewilaieg 
and also three-fold, short-petioled, oblong, smooth, entire, of 
a thick leathery texture, almost veinless ; from two to three 
inches Jong. -Racemes, or rather spikes, axillary, or between 
the leaves, or from the old axills, generally solitary, though 
sometimes there are two or even three together, much short- 
er than the leaves. Flowers opposite, from three to six paits 
on the spike, sessile, small, greenish orange colour. “Bractes 
no other than the perianth of the fruit. Calyx. Perianth of 
the fruit inferior, two-leaved, the under and exterior cordate, 
the: inner two-toothed; that. of the flower no other than the 
circular margin of the pit which receives the flower. Corol 
one-petalled ; twbe gibbous, six-sided, Border.six-parted, 
divisions alike, and cut equally deep, reflected. . Filaments 
six, erect, inserted into the base of the divisions of the corol, 
Germ ovate. Style the length of the stamens. Stigma 
large, glandular, naveled, . Berry inferior, round, oval, size 
of a pea, smooth, when ripe the pulp is yellow, clammy, and 
elastic, which makes them adhere to the branches of trees 
where they germinate, resting on three permanent calyciform 
bractes and crowned with a ring where the corol stood 
round the permanent base of the style, one-celled.. Seeds 
solitary, conform to the berry. Jntegument single, white, 
tough, and clammy, marked with twelve. whitish striz. 
Perisperm.conform to the seed, six-grooved, green. Embryo 
central, inverse, straight, pale green, nearly as long as the’ 
perisperm. Cotyledons two, linear-oblong. Phanesee minste, 
Young. sheeiaen well. espa santas ida of the oval labios 
long, slender, tetrandrous, regular ; flower, fruit, and etlc 
cels Bote with much ferruginous nei 
Tia Ree 
