LonANTHUS. LORANTHACE. 381 
latter is very closely allied to V. opuntioides of Linnsus ; but then these bo- 
tanists associate with it a Mauritius species (V. T«enioides, Comm.) and a 
Nepaul one (F. dichotomum, Don), to which De Candolle attributes characters 
at variance with ours. It is strange that De Candolle should in this instance 
omit the shape of the articulations, by which he distinguishes other species, 
actually leaving a character insufficient to separate it from most others of the 
section. 
IL. LORANTHUS.  Linn.; Lam. ill. t. 258.—Lonicera. Gertn. fr. 1. 
t. 27. 
Flowers usually bisexual. Calyx-tube ovate, rarely turbinate: limb short, 
truncated or toothed. Petals 4-8, usually 5-6, either distinct or more or 
less united: sestivation valvular. Stamens as many as the petals and oppo- 
site to them: filaments adnate to the base of the petals, free at the apex: 
anthers 2-celled, adnate, or erect, or versatile. Style filiform. Stigma sim- 
ple, capitate or turbinate. Berry roundish, or ovate, or oblong, or turbinate, 
1-celled, 1-seeded, usually crowned with the limb of the calyx.—Shrubs 
usually parasitical, rarely growing on the ground. Leaves opposite or alter- 
nate, entire, usually thick and coriaceous. Flowers spiked, or racemose, or 
panicled. 
§ 1. Petals 4-6, equal, distinet or scarcely at all united at the very base : an- 
thers erect or adnate—Enuloranthus, DC. 
+ Flowers bisexual, 4-petalled, spiked, their base immersed in excavations of the 
rachis and subtended by a small bractea adnate to and lining the excavation : 
anthers adnate. 
1176. (1) L. Hookerianus (W. & A.:) branches glabrous, terete, speckled 
With minute tubercles: leaves when young furfuraceous, afterwards glabrous, 
oblong-lanceolate, acuminated, shortly petioled, opposite or nearly so: spikes 
axillary, simple, solitary, about the length of the leaves, many-flowered : 
flowers a little immersed in the excavations of the rachis, furfuraceous: pe- 
tals 4, linear, (about 2 lines long): anthers ovate, adnate: ovary depressed, 
crowned with the 4-lobed limb of the calyx : stigma capitate : berries globose. 
—Wight ! cat. n. 1230. 
++ Fi i hort, racemose or panicled, with a cucullate 
dae CU Vista. ie each flower: jotai linear : anthers adnate. 
1177. (2) L. Wallichianus (Schult.:) glabrous: branches terete: leaves 
PERAN lasers ovate, Mes acute E the base: racemes 1-3, axillary, 
a half shorter than the leaves, fascicled at the knots of the branches, simple : 
flowers small, pedicelled : bractea lateral, cucullate : flower-bud nearly terete : 
petals 4, linear-cuneate: berry almost globular, at length reflexed.—Schult. 
syst. 7. p. 100; DC. prod. 4. p. 294.—L. polystachyus, Wall. in Ros. f. 
Ind. (ed. Wall.) 2. p. 217 (not Ruiz and Pav.)—L. terrestris, Heyne.—h. te- 
trandrus, Heyne-——Courtallum. 
1178. (3) L. obtusatus (Wall.:) branches speckled: leaves opposite or al- 
ternate, ES rather aie crm Ra petioled : racemes 1-2, ee eter 
as long or longer than the leaves, simple: flowers pedicelled : ern teral, 
. concave: flower-bud sharply 4-angled : petals 4, linear : berry nearly globose, 
at length reflexed.—Wall. L. n. 566 ; Wight ! cat. n. 1231. 
$2. Petals 4-6, equal, united from the base to about the middle, and forming a 
regular 4—6-cleft corolla. Filaments adnate to the petals at the base, free 
