As can be seen from the abo\e description, this species oï Loran- 

 thus develops in much the same way as ViscuDi. 



A clear figure of the germination of this LoraM/ZiM.y is given in the 

 well-known work of Goebei. '), already quoted. The name of the 

 Lotrinthus described is however not given there. 



6 and 7. Lornnihus spec. 6 and L. chn/sanf/ms Bl. 



The first species of Lorantlms is very common in several places 

 in the neighbourhood of .Semarang, especially on neglected coffee- 

 plants of the natives. We found the second species in large numbers 

 on tlie slopes of Merbabu and Telamaja at a height of 1000 — 2000 

 meti'es. Tlie fruits of the two species, closely resemble each other, 

 as do the plants themselves. Those of L. spec. 6 are somewhat 

 smaller and less thickly covered with brown scale.s. The fruits are 

 pear-sliaped with a fairly long stalk which becomes much curved 

 on ripening. The ripe berries are orange-brown in coloui'. They are 

 greedily eaten by birds, which swallow the entire fruit. The seeds are 

 dropped with the faeces and sometimes attach themselves in masses 

 to the branches. 



The shape of the seed differs from that of the previously described 

 species of Lorantlms. The latter was round in transverse section, 

 whilst a section of the seed of L. sjiec tJ is square. At one end it 

 is broad and (here occur in a line with the four edges four small, 

 succulent, white protuberances. At Iheir oilier end the seeds become 

 gradually narrower and terMiiiiate in a long, thin white stalk. This 

 stalk is the central |)ortiou of the fruit stalk. Although this white 

 stalk easily breaks ofï', it is almost always seen in seeds when ger- 

 minating in the open. These seeds have traversed the intestinal canal. 

 Round the seed itself and the stalk there is a thin, but very gluti- 

 nous, partly green layer of mucilage, by means of which the seeds 

 of this species of Loranthus are very firmly fastened to their substratum. 



The greater part of the seed consists of a white endosperm in 

 which the small green embryo is imbedded. This embryo is com- 

 posed of a short, thin cylindrical hypocotyl ending in a point, and 

 of two very small cotyledons. They are rather difficult to distinguish, 

 since they form a prolongation, as it were, of the cylindrical hypo- 

 cotyl. The latter, whose ape.x, in contradistinction to that of the 

 previous species of Loranthus, is not at all broadened, lies entirely 

 within the testa. The testa is however perforated in the middle, 

 exactly at the spot where the hypocotyl is applied to the testa. The 



') R. GoEBEL loc. cit p. 156. Figuru (j4 A. 



