CXII, LOEANTHACEJE. 551 



Bomb. ed. 2, p. 291 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 368. 

 Loranthus loniceroides, Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 368 

 (not of Liun.). L. ampullaceus, Wall. Cat. 506, B {not of Roxb.) ; Grab. 

 Cat. p. 80.— Flowers : Feb.-May. 



Dalzell without locality iu Herb. Kew. ! Konkan: Stocksl; Matberan, Cooke\ 

 Deccan : Mabablesbwar, common, CooJce] S. M. Country : Belgaum, 7??;'(;7?/e, 336!; 

 Cborla Ghat on Lasiosiphon eriocephalus, -Da/^c// ^ Gj'iso;?. Kanaka: Supa Gbats 

 of N. Kanara growing on Avtocarpus integrifolia, Talhoi ; Mandele (N. Kanara), 

 Ritchie, 1770! — Pistric. India (W. Peninsula); Ceylon. 



It is this species, and not Loranthus loniceroides, Linn., which is common at 

 Mabablesbwar and Matberan. 



12. Loranthus loniceroides, Linn. Sp. PL ed. 2 (1762) p. 473. 

 Bushy, much-branched, glabrous ; stems stout, thickened at the nodes ; 

 bark brownish-grey, smooth. Leaves thiuly coriaceous, opposite, 2-5 

 by I5-2 in., ovate-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, shining, base 

 rounded and then suddenly narrowed ; petioles |-i in. long. Flowers 

 few, in short axillary spikes ; peduncles about as long as the petioles, 

 stout, in opposite leaf-axils ; bract ^ in. long, broadly ovate, acute ; 

 bracteoles suborbicular, ^-^ in. long. Calyx 5-^ in. long; limb cylin- 

 dric, truncate or vei'v nearly so. Corolla 1-2 in. long, divided g the 

 way down into 5-6 linear-oblong recurved lobes which are green tipped 

 with dark pink {Trimen) ; tube pink, narrowly infundibulii'orm, slightly 

 curved. Stauiens 6 ; anthers slender, multi-locellate. Stigma sub- 

 globose. Berry green, ellipsoid, i in. long, surmounted by the cylindric 

 calyx-limb. Albumen green, firm, grooved and striped longitudinally 

 with -1-5 more or less distinct grey or reddish lines, the teeth cohering 

 in a flattened tip ; embryo with 2 separate cotyledons jointed to the 

 radicle which has a swollen and flattened end (Talbot). Fl. B. I. v. 5, 

 p. 221 ; Grab. Cat. p. 86; Ualz. & Gibs. p. 110 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, 

 p. 469 ; Talbot, Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 291. 



I have seen no specimens of L. loniceroides from the Bombay Presidency. There 

 are none from Bombay in Herb. Kew., the specimens labelled as such by Law, 

 Bitchie, and Dalzell having proved to be L. capitcllatus, Wight & Arn. 



Excluded Species. 



LOSANTRUS PUZVEBULENTUS, Wall, in Koxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. v. 2 

 (1824) p. 221 ; Fl. B. I. v. 5, p. 211 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) 

 p. 3(58. The single specimen from Stocks in the Kew Herbarium has been transferred 

 to L. Sctirrula, Linn. Neither Talbot nor Woodrow has found the plant, 



L0RANT3US JNVOLUCRATUS, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. v. 1 (1832) p. 552. This has been 

 included in Dalzell's ' Bombay Flora' (p. 109) on the authority of Dr. Gibson as 

 occurring at Bhimasankur, but it has not been found by any other collectors and it 

 seems not improbable that Gibson may have mistaken L. lagcnijh-us for it. The 

 plant does not apparently occur in tlie W. Peninsula. Dalzell does not seem to have 

 seen it, as his description in the ' Bombay Flora' is taken from Roxburgh (l. c). 



2. VISCUM, Linn. 



Shrubs semiparasitic on trees. Leaves opposite, flat, and thick, or 

 reduced to small scales or teeth. Flowers luiisexual, fasciculate (rarely 

 solitary), in the axils or on nodes (rarely terminal) ; bracts usually 

 small ; bracteoles 2, free or connate (rarely obsolete). Perianth-lobes 

 in male flowers short and solid, in female flowers adnate to the ovary; 



