Jamesoniane. N. O. Loranthacez. 
TAB, DCLXXXIII. 
LORANTHUS ALBIFLORUS, Hook. 
Foliis suboppositis lato-lanceolatis acuminatis integerrimis Co- 
riaceis basi in stipitem perbrevem decurrentibus, paniculis 
compactis axillaribus folio brevioribus, ramulis trifloris, brac- 
teis minutissimis squamzformibus, petalis 6 e basi ad medium 
erectis approximatis dein reflexis, filamentis basi liberis, an- 
theris ovatis subsagittatis mucronato-acutis dorso affixis, stylo 
longitudine staminum apice obliquo. 
Has. Andes of Quito, elev. 8500 feet, Dr. W. Jameson. 
I do not find this anywhere described. It must, in a recent 
state, be a very handsome species, loaded with its copious 
panicles of rather large white flowers, shorter, indeed, than the 
leaves, but very conspicuous from their number, arising as they 
do from the axils of all the upper leaves. The anthers are large 
and versatile, or attached by their back to the apex of the 
filament, 
Fig. 1. Flower. f. 2. Calyx and Pistil. f 3. Anther ;—mag- 
