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rufous-hoary. Leaves thin, usually broad -lanceolate, 5-10 cm. 

 long, 2-5 cm. broad, petiolate ; petioles 1-2 cm. long. Inflores- 

 cence and structure of the flowers the same as L. odontocalyx, 

 but the calyx is often entire, sometimes split on one side, and 

 minutely and irregularly toothed. 



Yule Island, on Inocarpus edulis, " Corolla tube yellow ; 

 lobes red." (No. 736.) 



This variety is intermediate between L. odontocalyx F. v. M. and 

 L. viieUinus F. v. M. It has some of the characters of both, and yet 

 dissimilar. The typical L. odontocalyx has a hoary Vestiture, whilst the 

 vestitvire of L. i^iteUinus is ferruginous tomentose. That of the new 

 variety is partly both. 



II.— VISCOIDE.E. 



ViSCUM. 



Section I. — Ploinixia Korth. 



Series I. — Isanthemum van Tiegh. 



Viscum vemiculosum Wight et Am. in Fl. Ind. Ori., i, 279. 

 Yule Island (No. 720). Fruit immature, cylindrical, contracted 

 at the base, prominently verrucose. 



Tlais specimen agrees somewhat with V. orientale Willd., as figured 

 in Blume's Flora Java, t. 24, but it is more applicable to the description 

 of V. verruculosum, especially in the shajje and character of the fruits, 

 as will be seen presently. J. D. Hooker, in Flora British India, v, 224, 

 describes the finiits of V. orientale Willd. as " globose, smooth." Kurz. 

 in Forest Flora, British Burma, ii, 324, states that they are " globular, 

 the size of a pea."' Wight in Illustrations of Indian Botany, p. 68, pi. 122, 

 depicts a smooth elliptical fruit, while in his Fl. Ind. Ori. I.e. he describes 

 the fruits as "(purple) somewhat globose, copiously and minutely 

 dotted." In the same work the fruits of F. verruculosum are described 

 thus : — " Berries (very immature) linear-oblong, covered with little 

 warts." 



There is a footnote which rvins — "' Dr. Wight made the following 

 memorandum when he collected the specimen : Fruit long, slender, 

 warty, lateral ones of each fascicle cemuous, leaves and plant very like 

 V. orientale, of which it is perhaps a variety. Keeble in the Loranthacese 

 of Ceylon, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., 2nd ser., Botany, vol. v, pt. iii, p. 115 

 (1896), describes the fruits of V. orientale as " small green, somewhat 

 lenticular with oval outline." 



Trimen in Handbook Flora Ceylon, iii, 471. is inclined to the opinion 

 that the Ceylon plant which has "" much warted fruits " is T'. verruculosum 

 W. & A. 



It appears to me that further investigation will prove this to be a 

 valid species. The new locality is an extension to its prexaously known 

 range, and the species is an addition to the Flora of New Guinea. 



