394- LIX. LORANTHACER. [ Loranthus, 
ong, but sometimes above 4 or under 1} in. Flowers in axillary or 
bel of 
at the end. Petals free, 9 to 10 lines long. Anthers adnate, oblong-linear, 
eg in Pl. Preiss. i. 279; L. Preissii, Miq. l. c. 280, p s Linnza, xx. 
25; L. Casuarina, Miq. l.c. 279; L. scoparius, ts Ge 
N. Australia. Bay of Rest, N.W. coast, 4. Cunningham ; urt’s dk EF Mueller. 
quand. Brisbane we een, Bay, F. Mu Ge = Warwick, Beckler. 
an 
S. Wal 
Beckler ; New England, C. Stuart ; jitro plains, 4. ie? am ; southward to Illa- 
warra, Her rb. F. Mueller ; in the interior, Mitchell ; "towards the Barrier Range, Victorian 
edition 
Victoria. Port pee and near Melbourne, Gunn, Robertson ; on the Murray towards 
Ovens "ee Sé Muell. ller, 
S. Australia. From the SSC to Spencer’s Gulf, F. Mueller; Lake Torrens and 
Cooper’s Creek Hovitt' Code tio 
tralia. Swan River, panai ond, Preiss, n. 1611, 1613, 1615, 1618; Mur- 
elissir oopa GE Sharks? Bay, 4. Cu nningham ; Dirk Hartog’ 8 Isle, Milne. 
There three rather distinct —€— a. with glabrous flowers in W. and N.W. 
tralia, S. A pratt Vitra and the desert interior of N. S. Wales; 5. with eiri ere? 
tose flowers, from the Brisbane to Port Jackson and Illawarra; c. with woolly-t omentose 
flowers, in New England and m Australia. 
17. L. pendulus, Sieb. in DO. Prod. iv. 294, and rs 
Glabrous. Leaves m en) opposite, from obovate oblong-euneate and about 
2 in. long, to linear-lanceolate attaining sometimes 
and usually 3- or 5-nerved, in a few specimens sessile, broad and cordate. 
: ing an umbel of 
3 or 4 rarely 2 rays, each with a partial cyme of 3 rarel 
central one sessile, or rarely all pedicellate. Calyx-border shortly cup- € 
truncate. Buds slender, clavate at the tips. Petals free, 1 to 1} m. e 
Anthers adnate, from oblong-linear to narrow-linear.—L. congener, 
DC. Prod. iv. 295, a Mem. Lor. t. 2 (leaves ion, central flowers wisi 
L. longifolius, Hook. = PI. t. 880 (leaves very long, central flowers sessile); 
L. aurantiacus, A. Cunn.; Hook. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 101 (flowers 
pedicellate) ; i Miquel. Lehm. in Pl. Preiss. i. 280 (flowers all pedicellate). 
Ta Kg Victoria river, F, Mueller ; Port Essington, Armstrong ; Gilbert rive 
ue 
Queensland. Wide Bay, Bidvill; Rockingham Bay and Rockhampton, nnn 
Brisbane r river, Morton ach 2 Mueller 1, 243 
Port Jackson to the Te ‘Mountains R. Brown, Sieber, del and 
d e Mist. n. 692, A. Qunsi ningham and ethers orthward to Clarence, Macleay, 
Di rivers, Kg New England, C.-5; dier and 
ctoria. Led Phillip Y m and bo. Ment to the Murray, F. us: 
de N.W. of the colouy, M. te, P. 
S. Aus tralia. S, coast, R. gë Lofty and Bugle ranges, Holdfast Bay, €» 
d. 
wy. Australia. Swan River and neighbourhood, Drummond, Preiss, n. 1617, ps 
Var. empieria- Geen sessile, oM em rdate. Roebuck Bay, N-W. ¢ "€ central 
Var AU POM A aves small pr . flowers small, often 4-merous: É. Arch. i 
one sessile.— L. Melaleuca, p së PE Preiss . i. 281, Ee in Ned. pe 106.— 
107; L. miraculosus, Miq. in PI. Phils. i. 281, and in Kruidk. "v; KK 
Paramatta, Wooils ; Ka England, C. Stuart ; Semi? ve “Barrier Range T 
Mueller 
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