Phthiruaa 



LORANTHACE^ 



93 



3 • 5-2 • 5 cm. br. ; petiole 5-7 mm. 1. — Dendropemon Harrisii 

 Urb. Symh. Ant. vi 7 (1909). (Fig. 27.) 



Jenman ! between Llandovery and Runaway Bay, Harris ! Fl. Jam. 

 10,371. Growing on Piscidia Erythrina. 



Stem pendent with branches 60 cm. 1., with the young twigs of the first 

 year terete, and, as well as the inflorescences, brown-scaly ; internodes 

 3 -5-2 -5 cm. 1. Inflorescences 3-1-5 cm. 1. (-6, Urban), 5-20-flowered ; 

 pedicels 3-4 mm. 1. ; bracts and bracteoles free above. Calyx more or 

 less hidden by the cupule. Bud 3 mm. 1. Petals lanceolate-linear, 

 3 mm. 1., "Gmm. br. Anthers, 3 without pollen with a long, lanceolate 

 connective, 3 fertile shortly apiculate. Style 2 mm. 1. Berries 7 mm. 1. 



3. ORYCTANTHUS Eichl. 



Shrubs erect, with roots creeping along branches of the host 

 and inserting haustoria. Inflorescence spicate, flowers solitary, 

 sunk in pits which are opposite decussate on the simple fleshy 

 rachis. Bracts forming a margin below the pits. Flowers very 

 small, hermaphrodite, parts of the flower in sixes. Calyx reduced 

 to a narrow margin. Petals free, cohering in the ovoid or 

 oblong bud. Stamens, those longer and inserted higher alter- 

 nating with the shorter inserted lower ; filaments adnate below 

 to the petals, connective produced into an apiculus ; anthers 

 with anterior cells smaller than the posterior. Ovary with an 

 annular disk. Berry with umbilicate apex, and including a 

 viscid layer ; seed with endosperm ; embryo straight, lying in 

 the axis of the endosperm. 



Species about 12, natives of tropical America and the West 

 Indies. 



0. oeeidentalis Eichl in FL Bras. v. pf. 2, 89 (1868) ; Urh. 

 in Engl. Bot. JaJirb. xxiv. 29. Viscum latioribus &c. Sloane 



Fig. 28.— Oryctanthiis oeeidentalis 

 Eichl. 



A, Portion of shoot with axillary 



spikes. 



B, Spike. 



C, Upper portion of flower in 



section. 



D, Petals with stamens. 



E, J'ruit cut lengthwise; v, viscid 



layer ; e, endosperm ; c, coty- 

 ledons. 



