544 CXI. EL-TAGNACEiE. 



For. Man. in Flor. Sylvat. p. clxxx ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 461 ; Talb. 

 Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 287 ; AVoodr. in Journ. Bomb. Xat. v. 12 (1899) 

 p. 368 ; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 908 ; AVatt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 3, p. 205. 

 Elceagnus Kologa, Schleclit. in DC. Prodr. v. 14, p. 611 ; Dalz. & Gibs, 

 p. 224. E. conferta, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. v. 1, p. 440 ; Grab. Cat. p. 178.— 

 Flowers : No v.- Jan. Veen. A'mhgul. 



Dalzell witbout locality in Herb. Kew. ! Konkan : Law ! ; all along the Gliiits, 

 Graham : Matheran, Cooke !, H. M. Birdtvood. Deccan : Mahableshwar, Graham, 

 Cooke !, H. M. Birdwood, Woodrow ; Khanclala, Graham. S. M. Country : Parva 

 Ghiit, Bifchie, 1330 ! Kanaka : tbi-oughout N. Kanara, usually ii\ or near evergreen 

 forests, Talbot. — Distrib. Widely distribiiled throughout the hilly parts of India ; 

 Ceylon ; Malay Islands, China. 



The fruit is edible and sold in the bazaars on the hills. It has a subacid flavor 

 somewhat resembling that of a red currant. 



Ordee CXII. LORANTHACE^. 



Evergreen shrubs usually parasitic on the branches of trees ; stems 

 much-branched, often jointed. Leaves usually opposite, coriaceous, 

 entire, sometimes absent ; stipules 0. Flowers hermaphrodite or 1- 

 sexual, racemose, spicate, capitate or fasciculate ; bracts usually scale- 

 like ; bracteoles usually 2. Perianth simple or double ; sepals or simple 

 perianth when sepaloid adnate to the ovary ; limb annular or cupular, 

 entire or shortly toothed ; petals or simple perianth-segments when 

 petaloid 3-8 (rarely 2), valvate, free or more or less connate in a tube 

 or in a sheath split on the upper side. Stamens as many as and opjjosite 

 to the corolla-lobes, usually adnate to them ; filaments hliforin ; anthers 

 usually 2-celled. Ovary inferior, at first apparently solid, at length 

 1-celled ; ovule solitary, erect, adnate throughout to the walls of the 

 ovary; style short or long; stigma simple. Fruit a 1 -seeded berry or 

 drupe. Seed adnate throughout to the pericarp ; albumen fleshy or ; 

 embryo straight ; radicle superior. — Distkib. Chiefly tropical ; genera 

 13 ; species about 500. 



Flowers hermaphrodite 1. Lorantuus. 



Flowers 1 -sexual 2. Viscu.\i. 



Tlie Order is usually placed under Monochlamijdcce, though some botanists include 

 it among the CoroUijlorw. The albumen of the seed is remarkable, being frequently 

 toothed at the apex. In the plates to tiie paper on the Development of the Ovula of 

 Loranlhus and Viscitm, read by Mr. W. GrifTith before the Linnean Society on 

 June 21ft, 1836 [published in Transactions, v. 18 (1841) p. 71], several figures are 

 given which exhibit this curious cliaractcr. Mr. Talbot has examined specimens of 

 the fresh fruit of many of the Bombay Lorunfhi, mid has described their albumen 

 in his list of Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Climbers, ed. 2 (1002). I have quoted 

 Mr. Talbot's descriptions in exienso. 



1. LORANTHUS, Linn. 



Branched shrubs, parasitic on the branches of trees. Leaves opposite 

 (rarely alternate), entire, usually thick and fleshy or coriaceous. Flowers 

 hermaphrodite, usually colored, spicate, racemose or cymose, axillary or 

 on old nodes (rarely terminal) ; bracts concave or oblique, cupular ; 

 bracteoles 2, free or connate with the bract or 0. Perianth double. 

 Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary ; limb short, truncate or 4-6-toothed, 



