Loranthus.] LIX. LORANTHACEX. 893 
The variations in the leaf appear to be the same as in the case of L. longiflorus and L. 
ëmge m not having seen the sessile cordate and the narrow petiolate leaves on the 
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n, nable to say whether they represent distinct varieties or differen 
is ir duis of t me individual. s is also in Timor, w De Candolle 
the specimens in which he thought he had identified Desrousseaux' above 
o ing’s , from the dori Sig Islands, ra also be the 
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same, and if so, the species has a wide range in the Archi ipelago, but is not, I believe, in 
Continental India. Z. insularis, A. Gray, a S. Pacific teu P ant, to which F. Mueller 
referred these specimens, appears to me to be quite dist 
maytenifolius, 4. Gray, Bot t. Amer. Expl. Exped. i. 139. t. 
w. ‘Caters previa opposite, petiolate, broadly ovate or obovate, not ex- 
ing ee in. in our specimen, not hick, irregularly veined. Flowers in 
border athe deeply cup- pa truncate. Petals 6 or occasionally 5, free, 
narrow 
"Ze Grose river, E P5. Woolongong, American Exploring Expe- 
5 species, as shown by our specimen communicated by A. Gray, and well represented 
in his plate, iin from all other Australian free-petaled eon KK aer stamens by the 
nce. A. Gray states the inflorescence to be also sometimes in the upper 
Si, but that a owing probably to his having on a ret Aata ie referred to it a speci- 
men in the mer Herbarium, labelled, with doubt, ** New Holland, Fraser." This 
take, the specimen is probably not Australian, differing from all others 
from that country in the presence of 3 bracts (a bract and 2 bracteoles) under each flower. 
tru 
iP “arrow, about 14 in. ber. the slightly dilated apex of the bud remark- 
vy pale Anthers adnate, linear, Stigma capitate, much larger than in 
Speci 
D tralia. Victoria river, F. Were: islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. 
rown ; Bentivek’s Der and Albert river, Hen 
bifurc catus, Benth. Glabrous and more or less glaucous. 
ageet opposite, E D faleate, obtuse or almost “acute, + 
a thick, often 3- nerv Flowers a xillary, the common peduncle 
fen 
the buds dilated.at the base to a diamete ter greater 
Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. B Allied to L. sangui- 
1 Da E ncle. 
o riL, pendulus, differing from both chiefly in the be of the pedunc 
16. L. lin ite glabrous or the 
phyllus, Fenzl im Hueg. Enum. 56. Quite g 
ee shoots inflorescence pus moe or e inflorescence only, -tomen- 
wh 
os Nost oolly. Leaves opposite, terete and usually slender, like 
of L. linearifoline, or uan mca) but never flat, mostly 2 to 3 
