ICONES PLANTARUM. 13 
draces, 14-2-pollicares. Bractee ovate, ad 2 lin. long, 4-fariam im- 
bricatee, ciliate ; bracteole breviores, anguste. Oalyx bracteam sequans. 
Corolle ie calyce subduplo longior, limbi lobi stellato-patentes 
lineam 
In all douiti characters, this plant appears to be very nearly 
allied to Buchnera, but in a considerable number of flowers examined 
T have always found the calyx 4-merous with a 5-merous corolla, and 
the pecan stellulate limb of the corolla reminds one of a Manulea or of 
Selaginee. Welwitsch’s n. 5837 is either a variety of the same species 
or pode ly a second species with very narrow linear leaves, the spike 
twice as long and not so dense, narrow bracts and rather more me 
corollas, but here, as in the typical form, there is the — ffere 
e number of parts of the calyx and corolla.—G. Brant 
Fig. 1. Flower, with the bract oy braeteoles (the bract Honora) too small). 
Soils: 3. Calyx. 4. Corolla cut open, showing the sta 5. Stamens 
6. Pistils, the ovary cut Siapitndinally, pocarss the ovules. 
Puiate 1319. 
LORANTHUS ATKINSONA, Benth. 
LORANTHACER. 
L. Atkinsone, Benth., frutex terrestris 2-3-pedalis glaberrimus ; 
foliis oppositis alternisve oblongo- lanceolatis obtusis basi angustatis, 
racemis axillaribus folio brevioribus, floribus tribracteatis, petalis 
liberis th agi 6 patentibus linearibus, ‘fra yo oo , endocarpio lig- 
noso intra sulcos albuminis longitudinaliter intruso 
Atkinsonia ligustrina, F. v. Mueller; Benth. Fl. Austral. iti. 388.— 
Nuytsia pence A. Cunn. 
Has. Blu | eee New South Wales, Cunningham! F. von 
Mueller ! and 0 
angustata. Br ‘atin bracte eoleeque subsequilo eari-lanceolate 
ovario sepius breviores, a: minus recurve Petala T poll ] 
his ae now reduced by Mr. Ben to Loranthus (‘ Gen. 
Plant.’ 212), section Coindenleonect6 requires a new specific name, 
ees being Pitti by a well-known Indian species. —D. 
LIVE 
oo 1. Expanded flower. : Petal and adnate stamen, and detached anther. 
8. Transverse section of fruit. 4. Embryo, with its subequal cotyledons saieeckins 
of sispuiiall ; 
