390 LIX. LORANTHACEZ. [ Loranthus, 
The broad leaved ^ gs (L. celastroides) are apes noted as growing on Banksia 
and Casuarina, and the narrow-leaved (Z. eucalyptoides) on Eucalyptus and Casuarina, In 
Beckler’s series of specimens Le Clarence river, several are quite intermediate as to the 
shape of the eaf, 
Anthers 
erint Wide Bay, Bidwill. 
. Cunn. Herb, Glabrous, with slender branches. 
branches, scarcely exceeding the leaves. Calyx-border scarcely prominent, 
obscurely toothed. Petals 5, free, very narrow, above 1 in. long. Anthers 
versatile. : 
N. S. Wales. Logan Vale, 4. Cunningham. 
iflorus, Desr. in Lam. Dict. iv. 598. Glabrous or the inflo- 
rescence slightly tomentose. Leaves alternate, in the ordinary form petiolate, 
from broadly ovate or mme? to narrow-lanceolate, obtuse, ege: wed 
at the base, mostly 2 to 4 in. long, thick, obscurely veined. Flow rs large, 
in short dense axillary ani: rarely reduced to 2 or 3 flowers, all nit 
and singly pedicellate. Calyx-limb prominent, truncate, often oblique and 
sometimes obscurely toothed. Petals 5, 1} to 1j in. long, united to about 
two-thirds of their length into a slightly swollen tabe; occasiona 
as the corolla fades, the upper portion of the petals reflex time of 
flowering. Anthers narrow-linear, adnate —DC. Prod. iv. 304 ; W.and Am ` 
Prod. 384; Wight, Ie. t. 302; L. indicus, Desr. in Lam. Dict. iv. 601,n* — 
of DC.; i vitellinus, F. Muell. Rep. Burdek. Exp. 12. Se" 
N. uaa Victoria river, F. Mueller; islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, 
Brown. i 
u — n end passage, R. Brown; Port Curtis, Jr'Gillieray ; B ve 
and Gilbert rivers, F. Mueller; Port Denison, "Burdskis Expedition ; Edge j 
ei geséit ter island, Henne ; aem river, Moreto n Bay, 4. Dan À 
pru er, others; in the interior, Mite others; 
SR “Wales Port Jackson to the Blue mv Mossman, Wools, ae 
Ner England, C. Stuart ; on the Andante an rth 
ar.? amplexifolius, Thw. Enum. i. L Pl. 134. ves sessile, orbieular "A 
L. amplexifolius, DC. Prod. iv. 805 ; 3 and Arn. zen —Arnhem 's Land, ie 
Suttor river, Dorsay ; Cooper Cree mens are 
not sr whether this be a i ch zo x d Cae of leaf Ge at aT Aebi 
on some branches only. 1 
5. L. angustifolius, R. Br. Herb. Glabrous. Leaves mostly opposite ue 
linear or linear-lanceolate, ‘often falcate, 3 to 4 in. long, thick, veinless inthe 
nerved, narrowed into a short petiole. Cymes 3- to 5 flowered, sessile api 
axils and the branches very short. Calyx limb small, with scarcely vg 
