284 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



and stigma large. Matheran (Birdwood). Bhimashanktr (D. and 



a). 



The two following appear to be very slightly known ; they are not 

 in D. and G. H. ascribes the first to the Konkan, and the second to 

 Canara. * L. Stocksii, leaves small opposite, covered with buff meal, 

 flowers solitary, axillary, sessile, calyx limb truncate, fruit pear- 

 shaped. * Z. trigonus, smooth with very thick branches, branchlets 

 3-oornered, leaves very large, broad elliptic obtuse, flowers in short 

 racemes, bracts forming a small cup, corolla 5-lobed. 



2. VISCUM. Mistletoe. 



1. V. angulatiim. Leafless with very numerous green 

 jointed branches, lower ones round dichotomous, upper ones in 

 verticils 3 or 4 angled, flowers sessile arranged round the 

 joints. 



S. Ghauts, not very common apparently. Mahableshwar, Dr. CooTce, 

 who calls it Indian mistletoe. The peninsula (H.). 



2. V. ariiculatum. Like the last, but the branches flat and 

 flexible, broadening from each joint upwards, flowers several 

 together at the joints, berry round tubereled when young, 

 afterwards smooth and succulent. 



Not in D. but in Q-. (No. 665), "common throughout the Konkana 

 and in the Ghauts." I had it in S. Konkan, and in the Dhanu taluka, 

 common. Deccan peninsula (H.). 



G. has F. Wightianum with round stem and branches, and flat 

 obtuse leaves, common on trees at Mahableshwar towards the 

 llotunda Ghaut ; but this appears to be not otherwise known. 



V. album is the European mistletoe, a plant much connected with 

 ancient religious and superstitious rites. 



" Garlands of Spanish moss and of mystic mistletoe flaunted, 

 Such as the Druids cut down with golden hatchets at Yule-tide." 



Longfellow. 



The berries of the mistletoe, of Loranthus albus, and of other 

 species of this order, produce the best and most tenacious bird- 

 lime. 



ORDER 105. SANTALACE-ffi. Sandal woods. 



Leaves entire without stipules, flowers inconspicuous, regular, 

 usually bracted, perianth more or less tubular of 3 to 8 divisions, 

 stamens 3 to 6, ovary inferior, fruit a nut or drupe. 



A small order, with much likeness to Thymeleacese and Eleag- 



