Galeottiane. N. O. Loranthese. 
TAB. CCCLAViTZ 
VISCUM FALCATUM. 
Trunco tereti, ramis ancipitibus sub dichotomiis dilatatis, foliis 
carnosis 3—5-nerviis falcatis obtusis semipedalibus, ¢ spicis 
axillaribus 1—3-pollicaribus sesquipollicaribusque, floribus 
verticillatis senis. Cham. et Schlecht, 
iscum falcatum. Cham. et Schlecht. in Linnea, v. 5. p. 172. 
Has. About Xalapa ; Schiede and Deppe. Galeotti. 
Our specimens of this Misselto consist of undivided branches 
from ten inches to a foot and more long. The lower and older 
Portion of the plant is described as terete-—— The whole is gla~ 
brous and more or less glossy. Branches very much compres- 
sed and two-edged, about two lines wide in the narrowest part, 
ming much dilated immediately beneath the leaves, striated 
longitudinally and somewhat reticulated in the dried state. 
“saves opposite, articulated obliquely on the very dilated por- 
lions of the stem, 6—8 inches long, linear-lanceolate, obtuse, 
‘apering at the base, coriaceous, 3—5-nerved, the nerves con- 
nected by oblique nervelets, often reticulated. Spikes, in my 
specimens solitary in the axils, sometimes two and three accord- 
ing to Chamisso and Schlechtendal, an inch and a half to two 
inches long, jointed and moniliform, that is, contracted at the 
Joints, and there having a short, bifid, membranaceous, slightly 
ciliated sheath, which receives the base of the articulation above 
ae Articulations one-fourth of an inch long, or more, cylin- 
_ Meal, covered all round (not senate) with small usually tri- 
oy flowers which are too young to allow of my describing 
