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Sect. III. ScuRRULA, DC, Petals united into a corolla wliioli is 

 split unilaterally; anthers basifixed. — Dendrophtlwe (part), Ltch- 

 temteinia; Tapinanthus, Macrosolcii (part). 



Sect. IV. INoTANTHERA, DC Pctals nearly free, or united at 

 tlie base into a regular corolla ; antbers dorsifixed. 



SubsGct. 1. OsciLL ANTHER A, DO. Autbcrs versatile.— 



Psittacanthus, Tristeriw, Spirostylis, Struthanthus (part), 



Subsect. 2. LoxANTHERA, DC. Anthers not versatile. 

 Loivanihera, Blume. 



Endlicher adopted Blume's classification with little modifica- 

 tion : he reduced Lichtensteinia to Tapinanthus, and divided 

 Dendroplithoe into two subsections Cichlantlius and Euden- 



drophihoe* 



lu I860 Grisebach founded the new section Oryctqnthus on 

 Loranthus occidenlaUs, Linn.t Two years later Oliver published 

 a provisional arrangement of the species of Loranthus in 22 sec- 

 tions, but gave no names to those of his groups which were new.+ 

 Section 15 was based on L. vndulatus, E. Mey., and L. Acaciae, 

 Zucc, on which the sections PUcopetalus and Tapinostemma were 

 respectively founded by Bentham. Section 18 included, in addi- 

 tion to some Asiatic species, two new African ones, L. Mannii and 

 L. Kirkii, en. which the sections Sycophila and Acrostachys were 

 based by subsequent authors. 



The Brazilian Loranthaceae were revised by Eichler in 1868. 

 He proposed the new genus Phrygilanthus, which included Tris- 

 teriv (as restricted by Blume) and part of Struthanthus. He raised 

 Loranthus sect. Oryctanthus, Griscb. to generic rank, and esta- 

 blished two subgenera of Psittacanthus, Eupsittacanthus and 



Aetanthus, characterized respectively by versatile and non-versa- 

 tile anthers. 



Bentham rccoguiiied only two genera of the tribe Lorantheae, 

 Nuytsia and Loranthus, aDd divided the latter into 20 sections.!! 

 Four of these \vere new : Acrostachys, founded on L. Kirkii, Oliv. ; 

 PUcopetalus, founded on L. undulatus, E. Mey. ; Tapinostemma, 

 based on L. Acaciae, Zucc; and Heteranthus, which included 

 numerous species from the Malay Archipelago, Australia and New 

 Zealand, and a single one, L. Mannii, from tropical Africa. 



Bentham made the presence of a ventral tooth at the apex of the 

 filament the criterion of the section Tapinanthus, in which he 

 accordingly included L. dodonaeifolius, DC, and L. Schimperi, 

 Hochst., m addition to L. lanccolatus, Beauv. (L. Belvisii, D.C) 

 and its allies. 



In 1889 Eugler followed Bentham in his treatment of the Old- 

 world sections, accepting eleven of those defined bv Bentham, but 

 segregating the sections Macrosolen, Elytranthe and Lepeostegeres 

 as a di^mct genus, Elytranthe, Blume (sensu latiore).t He fol- 

 l owed Eichler m regard to th e American sections, recognizing 



* Endl. Gen. Plant., vol. ii., p. 801. 



t Fl. Brit. W. Indies, p. 313. 



1 Joarn. Lmn. Soc, vol. vii., pp. 97-102. 



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Martins. Fl. Bras., vol. v., pars 2, pp. i-135. 

 Bentham & Hooker, Gen. PI., vol. iii., p. 207 (1880). 



