Exocarpus.| LORANTHACEAE. 391 
coriaceous ovoid nut supported by the partly adnate, thickened and fleshy 
tube of the perigone. Embryo minute, at the apex of fleshy albumen, the 
radicle much longer than the small connate cotyledons. — Shrubs or small 
trees, with jointed branches, the ultimate ones sometimes flattened in the 
mann phyllodia. Leaves alternate, either all minute dentiform or 
some is foliaceous, palmately nerved, entire. Flowers minute, 
sessile in axillary spice. the bracts caducous. 
About 20 species, natives of Australia, New Guinea, the Moluccas, Philipines, Norfolk 
Island, ew Zealand and the Hawaiian Islands. 
Leaves dentiform, ete with a few small flat ones; spikes elongate, 
3—6" lon: 1. E. Gaudichaudii. 
Leaves y, two finde, some large expanded; spikes short clavate, 
about 2” lon 2. E. brachystachys. 
1. E. gu A. DC. in Prod. XIV, 690. — A much branching 
shrub with stiff striate short branches, the aire ones triquetrous. 
eaves minute, tooth or scale-like, triquetrous, 1/4—'/2 long, rarely 
interspersed with a few flat pare ieee ones which are 1—3-nerved and 
measure only 3—6“. Spikelets 3—8“ long, rather distantly 5—9-fHlowered, 
he lim 
5-, rarely 4-parted, persistent. Stamens 5 (4), shorter than the lobes, the 
anthers 2-celled, as long as the filaments, and the cells again biloculate. 
Nut ovoid, 3”, the base immersed in the enlarged fles d reddish 
tube of the perigone, which shows distinctly the unaltered now dentiform 
lobes. — Gray, in mss. U.S. E. E., var. a. — E. eupressiformis, Hook. & 
Arn. in Bot. Beech. p. 95. (not Brown). 
High mountains of Hawaii! Hualalai and Mauna Loa; Lanai! Molokai! 
2. E, brachystachys, Hillebr. — Arborescent with elongate eminently 
striate branches, the ultimate branchlets flat.. Leaves distant, of two 
kinds, the smaller ones 1/2—2”, dentiform, subulate to flat-linear, the 
larger ovate or elliptical, 11/2—2‘ lgng, subsessile, 5—9-nerved. Spikelet 
only 2“ long, closely 3—5-flowered at the apex. Perigone greenish, very 
small. Anthers almost sessile. Nut obovoid, 6“, the fleshy perigone at 
its base Jarge and truncate. — E. Gaudichaudii, var. foliosa, Gray, 1. c. 
— Wawra, in Flora, 1875. 
On motets ridges of Oahu! and Molokai! between 2000 and 4000 ft. Nat. name: 
Ww 
«Heau Expanded sore pio chiefly on sterile branches, sometimes to the 
Wiad ns the smaller o! 
OrperR LXXVI. LORANTHACEAE 
Calyx-tube adnate, the limb of 2—5 valvate lobes, coherent at the 
base. Petals none. Bianon s as many as calycine lobes, opposite to and 
usually inserted on them, 1—2-celled. Ovary inferior, 1-celled, with 1 
