Viscum, DIOECIA TETRANDRIA, 763 
Teling, Koriti, 
A scarce, very large, woody, straggling, or climbing shrub, 
or small tree, with very long, drooping, slender branches; 
every axill is armed with a remarkably long, sharp, aint 
what recurved thorn. Leaves scattered, rather remote, short- 
petioled, obovate, or oval, obtuse, entire, reflexed at the mar- 
gins, hard, smooth, shining ; from two to three inches long by 
one and a half broad. Mater. Aments peduncled, scattered 
or axillary. FemAte, Flowers on a separate plant. Ament 
or receptacle peduncled, small, fleshy above the base of the 
thorns. Flowers aggregate. Calyx none. Corol none. Germs 
about ten or twelve, oval, immersed in the pulp of the ament, 
or receptacle. Style single, crooked, long, downy. Berry, 
seldom more than one comes to perfection, globular, of the 
size of a large pea, one-seeded, as it comes to maturity the 
ament, or receptacle is obliterated, and appears a single, one- 
seeded berry. This plant is very fit for hedges, and fuel, I 
know no other uses it is put to. 
2. B. fruticosa, R. 
Shrubby, armed, Leaves alternate, oblong, aire, acu- 
minate. Berries dry, conglomerate. 
A native of Chittagong. It flowers in October and No- 
vember, and the seed ripens in ‘April and May. 
VISCUM. Schreb. gen. N. 1504. 
Male calyx four-parted. Corolnone, Filaments none. 
Anthers growing to the calyx. Female calyx four-leaved, 
above. Corol/none, Style none. — Berry one-seeded. | 
1, V. monoicum, R. | 
_ Monoicous, shrubby, parasitic. Leaves opposite, lanceolar, 
from three to five-nerved. Flowers axillary, three-fold, sessile, 
male and female ones mixed on the same plant. Berry long. 
Found by Mr, Crommelin on trees ee in the Delta 
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