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LORANTHACE/E. 



7 mm. longa 4^ mm. lata basi involucro persistent! instructa. Semina ellipsoi- 

 dea 3 mm. louga plus minus complanata. 



HAD. Akocho : Bongarisha, leg. S. SASAKI, Mart. 1910. 



Near V. Querd-Morii HAY.; but separable from it by the tetragonal male 

 flowers with equal-sized perianth-lobes. 



Viscum (Aspidixia} diospyrosicolum HAYATA sp. nov. (Fig. 67-68). 

 Parasitica ad 

 ranios Diospy- 

 ros incola 40- 

 50 cm. louga 

 basi subteres a 

 basi dichotonie 

 vel trichotome 

 ramosa, inter- 

 nodiis niediis 

 subteretibus vel 

 plus minus com- 

 planatis 4-5 cm. 

 longis medio 1A 



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mm. latis apice plus minus dilatatis 

 3 mm. latis deorsum angustioribus 

 sulcatis glabris, iuternodiis superiori- 

 bus manifesto complanatis, in sec- 

 tione lentiformibus, 2 cm. longis me- 

 dio \\ mm. latis. Flores -9- ad 

 utrmnque latus apicis inter nodiorum 

 superiorum siti bracteolis miuutis 

 triangularibus utroque latere inst- 

 ructi basi involucro sufTulti cum 

 involucro 1mm. lougi, involucro 

 crustaceo \ mm. lougo ad orem 2- 

 lobato crassiusculo sub lente botryoi- 

 deo-muricato marline sub rnicrosco- Fig- ' 



Fig. 67, Viscum 

 diospyrosicolum HA- 

 YATA ; a, a female 

 flower on a node ; b, 

 the same, seen from 

 above ; c, the same, 

 seen from side, in- 

 volucre taken off; d, 

 the same, perianth- 

 lobes taken off, stig- 

 ma seen. 



diospyrosicoh m HAYATA 



