356 LORANTHACEiE. 



groups, on stout peduncles of J4 inch. Corolla I to 2 

 inches, narrow funnel-shaped, curved, red : segments ^ 

 inch, reflexed, brilliantly red. Anthers slender, t. 234. 



Nilgiris : near Ootacamund, Governor's shola, etc. Flowers 

 December. Fyson 6']2,' Pulneys : at lower levels. 



Gen, Dist. South India and Ceylon. Previously recorded as reaching 

 6,000 feet only. 



VISCUM. F.B.I. 132 II. 



Mistletoe. 



Parasites like LOKANTHUS on the trunks and branches 

 of trees, but with forked branches, opposite leaves, and 

 very small unisexual flowers with a single short perianth 

 of three or four lobes. Fruit a berry crowned by the 

 calyx-teeth, with very sticky flesh. 



Species 60, in Europe, tropical and sub-tropical Africa, 

 tropical and temperate Asia ; some very widely distributed. 

 The common Mistletoe of England, V. album, extending from 

 England across Europe and Asia to Japan. 



Viscum japonicum Thunh. ; F.B.I, v 226, II 11. Peculiar 

 among all our plants in its round green leafless, seg- 

 mented forked stems and branches, I to 5 inches long, 

 made up round smooth segments 1/5 to 1/2 inch long. 

 Leaves represented only by a pair of short opposite 

 points at the joints between the segments. Flowers very 

 minute in cup-shaped bracts at these nodes. Lobes 

 three. Fruit sessile at the joints, 1/12 inch, egg-shaped, 

 with much sticky pulp, enclosing a rather flat seed 

 with roughly hairy coat and minute shapeless embryo. 

 Wight Ic. t. 1018, Sp. Nilg. t. 87. 



On the downs— on Eurya, Rhododendron, Microcarpa 

 ovalifolia, etc. Fp07i 534,* 2746.* Bou?-?ie 298, 1059,* 1105,* 



Gen Dist. Higher mountains of India, Ceylon and Malaya, Mauritius, 

 China, Japan, Australia. 



