378 LORANTHACE. Viscum. 
1165. (3) P. capitata (W. & A.:) arboreous? : leaves digitate ; leaflets 6-9, 
long-petioled, oblong, suddenly and shortly acuminated, retuse at the base, 
quite entire, somewhat coriaceous without prominent veins, furfuraceous 
when young particularly on the midrib: petiole furfuraceous: thryse elon- 
gated, with a concave persistent bractea at the base of. the elongated pedun- 
cles: flowers sessile, numerous, capitate: berry 6-9-celled.— Wight! cat. n. 
1218.——Mountains in the Southern provinces. 
Cr. 4.—EpicoroLL& ComisANTHERAJE, Juss. 
Torus between the tube of the calyx and the ovary, and usually 
forming at its extremity a small disk (epigynous) on the summit 
of the ovary, which finally coheres entirely or rarely only at its 
upper margin with the calyx-tube. Petals usually united into a 
gamopetalous corolla, or rarely free, inserted on the outside of 
the disk. Stamens inserted on the corolla. Anthers distinct. 
ORDER LXXIX.—LORANTHACE/E. Rich. & Juss. 
Calyx with a smaller calyx, or bractew, at the base of its tube: limb 
short, entire or lobed. Petals 4-8, free or more or less united: æsti- 
vation valvular. Stamens as many as the petals, and opposite to them: 
filaments more or less combined with the petals: anthers versatile, or 
erect, or adnate. Ovarium cohering with the tube of the calyx, 1-cell- 
ed: ovule solitary: style filiform or almost wanting: stigma capitate. 
Fruit fleshy, crowned with the calyx, 1-celled : endocarp membranace- 
ous and tough, or somewhat crustaceous, marked with several longitu- 
dinal nerves. Seed solitary. Embryo straight in the axis of a fleshy 
albumen: radicle next the hilum, thickened or truncated at its extre- 
mity.—Shrubs, almost all parasitical. Leaves fleshy, entire, opposite 
or rarely alternate, sometimes wanting. 
From this order we exclude Schepfia. 
I. VISCUM. Tourn.; Linn.; Gertn. fr. 2. 1. 22 ; Lam. ill. t. 807. 
Flowers dicecious or moneecious. Calyx with the margin obsolete and en- 
tire. Petals 4 (more rarely 3 or 5), thick, nearly triangular from à b 
base, very shortly united at the base into à gamopetalous 4-partite corolla, or 
distinct, valvate in æstivation. Stamens wanting in the female; in the 
without filaments, and with the anthers adnate to the petals and composed of 
numerous little cells (or bilocular ?) : ovary in the female cohering with the 
calyx. Stigma almost sessile, obtuse. Berry umbilicated, internally mucila- 
