VisCUm. DIOECIA TETRANDRIA. 763 



Teling. Kon't/. 



A scarce, very large, woody, straggling-, or climbing shrub, 

 or small tree, with very long, thooping, slender branches; 

 every axill is armed with a remarkably long, sharp, some- 

 what recurved thorn. Leaves scattered, rather remote, short- 

 petioled, obovate, or oval, obtuse, entire, reflexed at the mar- 

 gins, hard, smooth, shining ; from two to three inches long by 

 one and a half broad. Male. ^wew<5 ped uncled, scattered 

 or axillary. Female. Flowers on a separate plant. Anient 

 or receptacle peduncled, small, fleshy above the base of the 

 thorns. Flowers aggregate. Calyx none. Corol none. Germs 

 about ten or twelve, oval, immersed in the pulp of the ament, 

 or receptacle. ^^i/Ze single, crooked, long, downy. Berry, 

 seldom more than one comes to perfection, globular, of the 

 size of a large pea, one-seeded, as it comes to maturity the 

 ament, or receptacle is obliterated, and appears a single, one- 

 seeded berry. This plant is very fit for hedges, and fuel, I 

 know no other uses it is put to. 



2. ^.fruticosa. R. 



Shrubby, armed. Leaves alternate, oblong, entire, acu- 

 minate. Berries dry, conglomerate. 



A native of Chittagong. It flowers in October and No- 

 vember, and the seed ripens in April and May. 



VISCUM. Schreb. gen. N. 1504. 

 J^lale ca/ya: four-parted. Coro/ none, Filamerils none. 

 Anthers growing to the calyx. Female calyx four-leaved, 

 above, Coro/ none. Style none. Berry one-seeded. 



1. V. monoicum. R. 



Monoicous, shrubby, parasitic. Leaves opposite, lanceolar, 

 from three to five-nerved. Flowers axillary, three-fold, sessile, 

 male and female ones mixed on the same plant. Berry long. 



Found by Mr. Crommelin on trees growing in the Delta 



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