: 888 LIX. LORANTHACES. 
9. ATKINSONTA, F. Muell. 
Flowers of Loranthus. Petals free. Anthers versatile. Fruit a drupe, 
not winged, the endocarp hard, with 8 i Ree 8 Gg ribs protruding 
into as many deep furrows of the seed. — Terrestrial shrub. Leaves alternate. 
Flowers in axillary racemes. 
The genus is limited to a single species, endemic in Australia. 
]. A. — ina, F. Muell. Fragm. v. 34. An erect bushy shrub, at- 
taining 2 or 3 ft. in barren rocky inci twice that height in other places, 
Leaves  oblong-lancolate obtuse, narrowed into a short petiole, n — ns 
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in the leaves. 
close under the siia the third or De tia i Gel often a little lower on the 
pedicel. Calyx-limb obscurely toothed. Petals usually 6, occasionally 7: 
8, linear, about 3 lines long. Drupe small, ovoid-oblong, = fear thin. 
ee ligustrina, A. Cunn.; Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 3 ; F. Mudl. 
Fragm. ii. 130. 
N.S. Wales. Blue Mountains, 4. and R. Cunningham and others. 
3. LORANTHUS, Linn. 
Calyx-limb short, truncate or toothed. Petals 4 to 8, free or more or r less 
united in a tubular corolla, spreading at the ends. Stamens inserted on the 
base of the petals ; ents distinct; anthers adnate or — 
parallel cells opening longititdinally. Style filiform, with a t -— 
ruit a berry, usually crowned by the limb of the calyx. Wie s doe 
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all and green. 
Bracts in all the Australian species solitary, small and concave, close under 
each flower, without the 2 bracteoles which are in many extra-Australat 
gn 
Africa, der 
with o hes. arcem as far north as T south of Europe. Of the 15 Ze as ihe 
Asia, another extends into Timor and perhaps over several of 
Indian i Archipelago ; the 13, as far as Hitherto ertained, are endemi ha 
n species, besides the dn: 
0 , 80 different in men that it is difficult to faney that the two belong to an 
species; the one sess road, and deeply te, the other petiolate, | 
tracted at the base. Ma any also, probably, ME in the colours of the flower more or iade. 
or ur orange, with or without green tips or the green extending to below the ed that 
The notes of the collectors on the trees on Thich the several species grow ne: The most 
there seems to be no evidence that — (ene affect eicht, ie. Mela- 
1 Ke nd arpus, b 
euca, Fusanus, and many ot ers are also adamante a | feading nea of 
Anthers RENE Petals free. Leaves opposite. Inflo- 
y tel 
e reg v thick, a 
petiolate, thic from short - obovate to long lanceo- ih celastroides. E 
Pen and faleate. Cymes several-flowered . 
ves small, sessile or nearl 
reg eg — Zeie ode slender, 2- flowered. a LB idillii 
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