1. Lobanthus.] U, LOR ANTE AC EJE. [2. Vjscttm. 



long in short axillary racemes, and from the leaf scars. Peri- 

 anth-tube oblong 5-6 angled inflated even in bad with 5-6 lin- 

 ear spathulate lobes nearly as long as the tube. Fr. globose. 



Manbhum, Oamp.l Fls. April. 



2. Visciim, L. Mistletoe. 



L. opp. sometimes reduced to scales. Fls. small or 

 minute, solitary or fascicled. Perianth leaves 3-4. Anthers 

 sessile adnate to the perianth leaves, opening by pores; 



A. Branches leafly. 



L. lanceolate or elliptic aoute. Fruit oblong . 1. monoicum. 



L. obovate to oblong obtuse. Fruit globose . * . 2. orientate. 



B. Branches flattened, leafless 3 articulatum. 



1. V. monoicum, Roxb. 



A shrub with slender terete branches compressed at the 

 ends, narrowly elliptic often oblique (or obliquely ovate, Prain) 

 leaves 1|" by §" to 3" by 1J" rarely attaining 5", and minute 

 greenish flowers in sessile, or very Bhortly-peduneled fascicles 

 at all the nodes. Fr. oblong J" green polished with white 

 veins. 



Manbhum, on HelictereB Isora, Camp . (The Pantal name quoted by 

 "Wood, viz., Pet chamra Banda merely means this) ; Pitorea (Ranchi) 

 Wood-, SantalP. Fls. Nov-Dec Fr. Jany. 



2 V. orientale, WHU. 



A shrub with terete greenish 2-3-chotomons or sub-verti- 

 cillate branches, obovate or ell.-oblong (or, linear-oblong, 

 F.B.I.) leaves about If" by •§" or less, with a mat surface, and 

 usually slightly crimped margins. Small yellowish flowers 

 T l ¥ " long sessile in axillary and terminal sessile or stalked 

 fascicles. Fr. globose nearly J" diam. 



Singbhum (on Zizyphus, Croton and other trees). Hazaribagh at 

 Lunkta, Wood ; ' also in the Damuda valley, Manbhum, Camp. Fls- 

 May- June. Fr. Nov. 



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