396 LIX. LORANTHACES. [ Viscum. | 
moneecious aud clustered at the nodes in all the Australian Varo diecious ` ` 
and in the forks of the branches in the common European on ^ 
Zen genus is -É— over Asia, Africa, and temperate Europe. The three pde éen 
all Asia They are sometimes found growing upon species of Loran 
: well as upon thé das that feed them 
Leaves opposite at the nodes. Petals deciduous . . . . . . . 1l. V. orientale. 
Leaves none. 
Branches slender, angular, not me Petals deciduous . . . 2. V. angulatum. 
Branches flattened. Petals persiste . . . 8. V. articulatum. 
V. orientale, Willd.; DC. Prod. iv. 278. Branches elongated, 
nearly terete, always leafy. Leaves o EE EE e or lanceolate, 
and 1 y 2 in. long in the Australian specim t to obovate and 
varying from 1 to 3 in. in Asiatic ones, em at the bas e, 3- or 5-nerved. 
Flowers m xis: n 1 to 3 sessile or shortly pedicellate dinde in each axil, 
each CR sëch of 3 or 5 flowers, the central one or Ro 3 females, 
each un line long, the 2 lateral ones males and much smaller, all sessile 
in the Murs within 1 or 2 small bracts. Petals 4 or rarely 3, tege: 
` Berry globular, 2 or ig 3 ww diameter. 
Que ensland. Rockham wma ingle small specimen in Herb. F. Muell. 
Common in India and the ig ug ro ei paniir almost to the Mediterranean. 
. V. angulatum, Heyne and Arn. Prod. $80. Quite lea 
TPronebléts opposite or mme articulate, rather slender, angular, not 
x gen" Sat older branches terete. Flowers minute, in sessile clusters of 3 
6 at the n es, the males and females in the same clusters, each one e half- 
ier ina iub "as 2-lobed bract. Petals usually 4, very deciduous. 
Berry small, globular 
Queensland. Giles Le F. Muel wes Edgecombe ec? Dallachy ; Port Denison, 
W. Hill; Brisbane ri n Bay, 4. Cunningham, an RS hers. Also in the moun 
tains of the Indian sing e paid af common ther 
3. V. articulatum, Burm. ; v Prod. iv. 284. Very much branched, 
forming tufts from a few in. to 4 or 2 ft. gel Branches flattened, arti- 
culate, sometimes forked at dee every poe sometimes elonga £s 
articles thick, mostly 4 to 2 in. long and 2 to 4 lines broad, but Sometimes 
as road as long or above 1 in. long and ds narrow. Flowers rs the 
females s searcely 3 3 line long, nearly globular, half-buried in a cup -shaped 
bract, the males still See er. Petals usually 3, very minute, persistent deg 
äeren, the very small globular ber Gs —V. moni iliforme, Blume; DC. 
v. 284; Wight, Ic. : 1018 and 101 
ere Moreton Bay, F. Mue. 
N. S. besen Goes Plains, re EE Richmond and Clarence ne» 
Beckler 
5. NOTOTHIXOS, Oliv. 23 
rarely ð — 
Flowers unisexual. Calyx-border quite inconspicuous. Petals 4, ra rere 
or 5. Anthers almost sessile, at the base of the petals, not wegen trans" 1 
9-lobed inside, with parallel lobes obscurely locellate. Stigma sess! d vn 
a l-seeded berry.—Parasitical dichotomous shrubs, more or less cove! > 
