66 LORANTHACES. [ Viscum. 
Bundelkhand (Edgeworth), Siwalik range near Dehra Dun (Kanjilal). 
DistRIB.: Sub-trop. Himalaya from the Punjab eastwards to 
Sikkim and up to 3,000 ft. ; also in Central, W. and S. India and 
Ceylon ; extending to Burma and the Malay Peninsula and Islands 
to Australia. V. dichotomum appears to be the more common form 
within the area of this flora, and may be distinguished by its more 
robust habit and by its thicker and broader internodes. 
V. atsum. Linn. is the true “ Mistletoe,” easily distinguished from the 
other species of this genus by its large flat coriaceous leaves, the 
dicecious flowers, and by its white almost transparent berries. In 
India it is confined to the N. W. Himalaya at elevations be- 
tween 4,000 and 9,000 ft. It is found on various trees, but very 
rarely on oaks. It extends westwards through Afghanistan to the 
Atlantic and to N. Asia and eastwards to Japan. 
XCVIII._SANTALACE. 
Trees shrubs or herbs, often semi-parasitic on roots. Leaves 
alternate or opposite, quite entire, sometimes scale-like or none, 
nerves inconspicuous, stipules none. Flowers 2-or 1-sexual, 
regular, usually small, in simple or compound cymes, bracts 
usually small or sometimes leafy; bracteoles 2, free or connate, 
sub-opposite, sometimes one or both obsolete. Pertanth superior or 
inferior, simple, green or coloured; limb 3-8-toothed-lobed or 
-partite, lobes with often a tuft of hair behind the anthers. Stamens 
at many as and opposite the perianth-lobes, adnate above, rarely 
at its base; filaments filiform or broad ; anthers 2-celled, bursting 
inwards or laterally. Disk epigynous or perigynous. Ovary usually 
inferior and 1-celled, style usually short, stigma entire or 3-6-lobed ; 
ovules 2-3, adnate to or pendulous from a central column, rarely 
solitary and basal. Fruit a nut or drupe. Seed globose or ovoid, 
smooth rugose or sulcate, testa thin or obsolete ; albumen copious, 
fleshy, radicle superior.—Species about 250, in temp. and trop. 
regions. 
OSYRIS, Linn.; FI. Brit. Ind. v, 231. 
Shrubs, Glabrous, branchlets acutely angular. Leaves alternate, 
entire, exstipulate. lowers small, axillary, polygamous; male- 
flowers in clusters, the bisexual often solitary. Perianth-tube solid 
in the male-flowers, of the bisexual flowers adnate to the ovary ; 
lobes 3-4, triangular, valvate, with a tuft of hairs on the face. 
