188 LORANTHACE.E. 



synanclrium ad centrum floris insitum sessile depresso-globosum 3-valvatiDi vel 

 poro central! dehiscens. Ov T arium in fl. $ nulluin in fl. Q inferum ; stigma 

 crassum piilviniforme in snnimo ovarii sessile. Bacca perianthii lobis adpressis 

 coronata, mesocarpio succulento viscifero. Embryo albmnine copioso carnoso 

 inclusns teres. Suffrutex in arbores parasiticus, ramis oppositis nodosis. Folia 

 ad squamas reducta. Flores ad nodos v. ad apices ramorum glomerati sessiles. 

 Bractea parva pcctinato-ciliata. Species unica. India, Malaya, Mauritius, 

 Australia, Polynesia (fide HOOKER), Loo-choo, Bonin, Formosa et Japonia. 



The present genus is closely allied to J3 if aria VAN TIEGHEM in having 

 trimerous flowers and in the shape of the internodes. VAN TIEGHEM does not 

 give any diagnosis of his genus. But, judging from the detailed accounts given 

 by the author of the tribus Bifariea?, the genus seems to have male flowers 

 with stamens opposite to the perianth-lobes and U-formed embryo-sacs, as is 

 the case with Kortltalsella. In establishing Bifaria, VAN TIEGHEM distingu- 

 ishes at least as many as 56 species, including Viscum japonicum THUNB. on 

 which our genus Pseudixus was founded. Although he gives 110 remark on 

 what species he cstablishd his genus Bifaria. yet it is very reasonable to think 

 that the latter Avas founded on a species other than Viscum japonicum 

 THUNB. As the latter is not congeneric with other species of Bifaria, it should 

 to excluded from the species enumerated by VAN TIEGHEM as belonging to his 



genus. 



Pseudixus japonicus HAYATA n. n. (Fig. 64). 



Viscum moniliforme (B. C.) WIGHT Ic. PL t. 1018. 



Viscum moniliforme (B. C.) var. coral ioicles WIGHT Ic. PI. t. 1019. 



Viscum moniliforme BLUME Fl. Jav. Lor. t. 25. 



Visc-um japonicum THUNB. in Trans. Linn. Soe. II. p. 329 ; DC. Prodr. 

 IV. p. 283 ; HOOK. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. V. p. 226; FORBES ct HEMSL. Lid. Fl. Sin. 

 II. p. 407. 



Viscum articulatum FRANCH. et SAY AT. Enum PI. Jap. I. p. 406. 



Bifaria japonica VAN TIEGHEM in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. XLIII. p. 173, 

 (1896). 



Kortlialsella japonica ENGL. in ENGL. u. PRANTL Nat. Pfl.-fam. Nachtr. 

 I. p. 138, (1897) ; GAMBLE in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXXV. p. 384 (1914). 



