120 FLORA VITIENSIS. 
sime plures; cotyledonibus brevibus, radicula supera.—Frutices super alias stirpes endogenas para- 
sitici, dichotome ramosi ; ramis teretibus, 4-gonis v. compressis, sepe articulatis; foliis oppositis aut 
rarissime alternis, nunc 0 v. squam:eformibus ; floribus spicatis v. fasciculatis. 
There are two species of Viscum in Polynesia, V.articulatum, Burm., and V.moniliforme, Blume. The 
latter is confined to the Hawaiian Islands, where I found it chiefly on the Koa tree (Acacia Koa, A. Gray), 
and where it has also been found by Barclay and Nuttall. The two species are closely allied; V. monili- 
Jorme is, however, at once distinguished by its prominently-veined articulations and more crowded flowers. 
l. V. G Aphylle Oliv.) articulatum, Burm. Fl. Ind. 311; aphyllum; caule basi teretius- 
culo; ramis compressis articulatis, articulis elongatis substriatis latitudine sua decupla longioribus ; 
fasciculis florum ad apices articulorum oppositis sessilibus 1—3-floris.— V. compressum, Poir. Dict. 
Suppl. vol. ii. p. 861; Decaisne, Herb. Timor. p. 87; Fl. Jav. Loranth. t. 26. V. opuntiodes, Forst. 
Prodr. n. 369, et Hook. et Arn. Bot. Beech. non Linn.—On a Myrtacea, Taviuni (Seemann! n. 212), 
Vanua Levu, Ovalau, etc. (U. S. Expl. Exped.; Harvey!). Also found in the Society Islands 
(Forster! Barclay! Bertero! Capt. Cook !). 
II. Loranthus, Linn. Gen. n. 443; Endl. Gen. n. 4586. Flores hermaphroditi, rarius abortu 
1-sexuales, singuli 1-3-bracteati. Calycis tubus ovatus v. turbinatus, teres, cum ovario connatus, 
limbus superus brevis, truncatus, dentatus v. partitus. Petala 4-8, sepius 5-6, summo: calyci 
inserta, libera v. plus minus in tubum sæpius hine fissum coalita, :estivatione valvata, sub anthesi 
erecta, patentia v, apicibus reflexa. Stamina petalis numero squalia et opposita; filamenta iisdem 
basi v. ultra medium adnata, apice libera, eequalia v. alterna breviora, anthers introrse, 2-loculares 
basifixee v. adnate, erectze, nunc incumbéntes versatiles, loculis oppositis, longitudinaliter dehiscen- 
tibus. : Ovarium inferum, 1-loculare; ovulo 1, pendulo. Stylus filiformis; stigma simplex, capita- 
tum v. turbinatum. Bacca ovata v. turbinata, vertice nuda v. calycis limbo coronata, 1-locularis, 1- - 
sperma. Semen inversum. Embryo intra albuminis cavitatem excentricam rectus v. curvatus ; 
cotyledonibus brevibus, distinctis v. cohzrentibus, radicula supera.—Frutices dichotome ramosi, 
parasitici; foliis oppositis v. alternis integerrimis, sepissime carnoso-coriaceis; floribus in spicas 
corymbas v. panieulas axillares aut terminales dispositis, rarius umbellatis v. subcapitatis, rarissime 
glomeratis, viridibus croceis v. flavicantibus, szepissime puniceis v. purpureis, ob diversam petalorum 
longitudinem et varium cohesionis gradum variis. 
“ Loranthus,” says Oliver, “is figured by Blume, Griffith, and others, as with abundant albumen; and 
so I find it in the seeds of the Indian species which I have examined. In ZL. Europeus, too, it is abundant. 
I cannot doubt, therefore, that Mr. Miers has had old or decayed fruits for examination, in which the 
albumen had shrivelled up from the enclosed embryo, and that the albumen has been taken for a layer 
of the pericarp (putamen)." 
We have in tropical Polynesia, besides, the two species of Loranthus mentioned below, L. Stelis, Forst. 
Prodr. n. 157. et Icon. Ined. t. 109; Parkins. D ings of Tahit. Plants (ined.), t. 41, from Tahiti, ( Willes 
and Smith! Forster in Mus. Brit). In Parkinson's beautiful figure the flowers are orange towards the 
base and greenish on the outside, purplish on the inside of the upper part of the petals. 
l. L. (Dendrophthoe) insularum, A. Gray, Bot. Wilkes, p. 738. t. 98; glaber; ramis tereti- 
bus; foliis oppositis petiolatis ovatis obtusis subquintuplinerviis vix venosis; pedunculis axillaribus 
brevibus racemoso-co-floris; pedicellis 3-floris; floribus (sesqui-bipollicaribus) 6—7-meris.— Vanua 
Levu and Viti Levu (U. S. Expl. Exped.; Seemann !), Taviuni (Seemann! n. 211), Nairai (Milne !). 
Also collected in the Samoan and Tongan Islands (U. S. Expl. Exped.). 
This is very frequent on Znocarpus edulis, in the lower coast region; flowers red, often yellow towards 
the base. 
2. L. (Dendrophthoe) Vitiensis, (sp. nov.) (Tab. XXIII.) Seem. ; glaber; ramis teretibus ; 
folis oppositis petiolatis ellipticis, obtusis triplinerviis crassis vix venosis; pedunculis axillaribus 
corymbosis; pedicellis 3-floris; floribus (sesqui-bipollicaribus) 5—6-meris, singulatim 1-bracteatis ; 
