THE LOKANTUACE.^ OF CEYLON. 



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APPENDIX. 



Forms of Fruits and Seeds of some Species of the Cingalese Loranthacea;. 



There are in Ceylon some 15 species of Zoranthus, G species of Viscum, 1 species of 

 Notothixos, and 1 species of Qinalloa. The species of which I give some account in this 

 section are those which in the following list are not included in parentheses ( ). The 

 list is taken from Hooker's FL Brit. Ind. vol. v. p. 203 et seq. Those species marked 

 with an asterisk (*) are endemic. 



Section I. Euloranthus , 



„ II. Phoenicanthemum 



IV. Cichlanthus . 

 V. Dendrophthoe 



VI. Tolypanthus. 

 VII. Elvtranthe .. 



(Loranthus nodiflorus, T'Aw.)*. 



(L. cnsifolius, Thw.)*. 



L, Hookerianus. 



L. Scurrula. 



L, tomentosus, Heyne, 



L. cuneatus. 



(L. sclerophyllus, Thw.)*. 



L. ligulatus, Thw. 



L. suborbicularis *. 



L. longiflorus. 



(L. lonchiphyllus)*. 



L. neelgherrensia. 



L. Gardneri *. 



L. loniceroides. 



L. capiteilatus. 

 Viscum (monoicum, Koxb.). 

 orientale, Willd. 

 (capitellatum, *?m.). 

 (ramosissimum, Wall.). 

 (articulatum, Burm.f,). 

 (japonicum, Thunb.). 

 Notothixos lioccosus. 

 (Ginalloa spathulifolia, O/irer) *. 



The above list is merely given as an indication of the representation of the order in 

 Ceylon. 



The following descriptions of fruit and seed may be found useful : — 



Loranthus loniceroides. — Fruit " ellipsoid " t ; really its elliptical body is continued above 

 into a short tube (bases of calyx), giving it a flask-shaped appearance (fig. 4, PL XI.). 



Fi^it dark, glossy, green when ripe, rapidly turning black (as in many other species) 

 owing to large quantity of tannin contained ; bracts scarcely deciduous, though so stated 

 in the * Plora of British Indici.' Inner layers of fruit (false berry) form green pulp, slightly 

 sweet ; seed on squeezing fruit issues basally, Girrying with it (fig. 5, PL XI.) a layer of 

 " viscin " attached to basal end of seed. Viscin semitransparent, sticky, rapidly drying 



t Hooker, ' Fl. Brit. India,' v. p. 221. 



