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1.V.monoicum, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 105; Fl. Ind. iii, 763; 
Brandis For. Fl. 393 ; Ind. Trees 552 ; F. B. I. v, 224 ; Watt E. D. 7 
Gamble Man. 584 ; Prain Beng. Pl. 912 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. ii, 552. 
A large parasitic shrub. Branches slender, smooth, terete, slightly 
swollen at the nodes. Leaves shortly petioled, rather thin and usually 
drying black, 1-5 in. long, variable in width, obliquely ovate or lan- 
ceolate, often falcately curved, acute or acuminate; basal nerves 
3-5, prominent. Flowers minute, moncecious, greenish, arranged 
in axillary sessile or shortly stalked usually 3-flowered fascicles ; 
central flower of each fascicle usually male ; bracts truncate, apicu- 
late. Perianth-lobes 3 or 4, triangular-oblong. Berry }-} in. long, 
oblong, narrowed at both ends. 
- Bundelkhand (Edgeworth) ; Forests of N. Oudh (Vicary, R. Thompson, 
Duthie), Gorakhpur (Vicary). Flowers in May. Distrrs.: Behar, 
Chota Nagpur, W. and C. Bengal, Sundribuns ; also in the Nepal 
and Sikkim Terai, Khasia Hills, Bombay Pres., S. India, Ceylon and 
Burma. The Bundelkhand specimens collected by Edgeworth near 
Banda on Zizyphus xylopyrus and Bassia latifolia indicate a more 
robust habit of growth. The leaves are much broader and exces- 
sively coriaceous, and the light brown colour to which they have 
dried gives them a different aspect as compared with typical speci- 
mens from other localities in N. India. ‘Trimen says that in Ceylon 
the plant dries to a pale yellowish-brown colour. Sir Joseph Hooker 
was of opinion that the Banda plant might prove to be a different 
species. The only available material now at Kew is, however, in- 
sufficient to settle this point. 
2. V. articulatum, Burm. f. Fl. Ind. 311; F. B. TI. v, 226; 
Watt E. D. ; Kanjilal For. Fl. (ed. 2), 339 ; Gamble Man. 584 ; 
Collett Fl. Siml. 440; Prain Beng. Pl. 913; Brandis Ind. Trees 
552 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. ii, 555 ; V. attenuatum, DC. ; Brandis For. 
Fl. 394. V.dichotomum, Don. Prod. 142. V. opuntioides Heyne ; 
Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii, 763.—Vern. Budu, pand. 
A much-branched parasitic leafless shrub forming pendulous tufts 6 in. 
' to3ft.long. Branches jointed, the internodes 1-2 in. long, flattened 
somewhat narrowed at each end, readily disarticulating, pale-green 
when fresh, yellowish-brown when dry and longitudinally furrowed, 
Flowers moncecious, very minute, 3-4-merous, very shortly stalked, 
1-6 together in fascicles at the nodes, each with a cupular bract at 
the base. Perianth of male flowers reflexed. Female flowers 2- 
bracteolate, the perianth-lobes erect, triangular. Berry }in. in diam., 
subglobose, greenish-yellow, smooth. 
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