Loranthus. | LORANTHACES. 621 
Norrx Istanp: Locality unknown. 
Founded upon a single specimen in the Kew Herbarium, the exact locality 
of which is not known. It is evidently a most distinct species, differing from 
all others found in New Zealand in the many-flowered trichotomous panicles. 
The anthers are not fully described by Hooker, but in the ‘‘ Genera Plantarum’’ 
the species is referred to the subgenus Phrygilanthus (now often kept as a 
distinct genus), in which they are versatile. 
2, TUPEIA, Cham. et. Schl. 
A parasitic shrub; branches terete, jointed. Leaves opposite or 
alternate, flat, broad or narrow. Flowers dicecious, in small 
axillary and terminal panicles. Perianth-tube of the male flowers 
very small, of the female flowers adnate to the ovary; limb 
4-partite, rarely 5-partite. Stamens in the male flowers affixed 
to the base of the segments; filaments long, filiform; anthers 
ovate-oblong. Ovary in the female flowers inferior, ovoid; style 
short and thick; stigma obtuse. [Fruit a subglobose 1-seeded 
berry; mesocarp succulent and viscid. Seed globose; albumen 
copious, fleshy ; embryo almost terete. 
The genus is limited to a single species, endemic in New Zealand. 
1. T. antarctica, Cham. and Schi. im Linnea, iii. (1828) 203.— 
A small branching shrub 2-3 ft. high ; bark pale; branchlets finely 
pubescent. Leaves very variable in size and shape, $—24 in. long, 
from broad ovate-rhomboid to elliptic- or oblong-lanceolate, acute 
or obtuse, narrowed into short petioles, pale-green, rather thin; 
veins faint but evident, anastomosing. -Panicles shorter than the 
leaves, 6—-12-flowered ; peduncles and pedicels slender, pubescent. 
Flowers small, in. diam., greenish-yellow, often very abundantly 
produced. Segments of the male perianth linear-oblong or oblong- 
spathulate, of the female narrower and more acute. Stigma large, 
globular, obscurely lobed. Berry about +in. diam., white or pink 
spotted with darker pink, pulp extremely viscid.—Hook. f. Fi. 
Nov. Zel. i. 101, t. 26; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 108. T. Cunninghamii, 
Mig. in Linnea, xviii. (1844) 85. T. pubigera, Mig. l.c. 86. T. 
undulata, Col. im Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvi. (1884) 329. Viscum 
antarcticum, Forst. Prodr. u. 370; A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. 269 ; 
Raoul, Choiz, 42. V. pubigerum, A. Cunn. Precur. n. 484. 
Nort anp Souru IsnaAnps: Not uncommon in wooded districts through- 
out. Sea-level to 3000 ft. Pirita, October--December. 
A most variable plant. Parasitic on Panax, Pittosporum, Carpodetus, 
Melicope, Myrsine, &c., and occasionally on Loranthus tetrapetalus and L. 
micranthus. 
3. VISCUM, Linn. 
Parasitic shrubs; branches opposite, often dichotomous. Leaves 
opposite or nqne. Flowers dicecious or moncecious, very small, 
