Hippopliae.] cxxxi. ELJSAGNACEJS. (J. D. Hooker.) 203 



Seed oblong, testa crustaceous, shining, albumen scanty. Species 2, 

 Europe and N. Asia. 



1. K. rhamnoides, Linn. \-Schlecht. in DC. Pro.dr.xiv. 607, and "in 

 Linncea xxxii. 296; leaves from obovate to linear-oblong, not toraentose, 

 clothed beneath with short silvery or rusty circular scales. Boiss. Fl. Orient. 

 iv. 1055 ; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 549 ; Brand. For. Fl. 388 ; Gamble Man. 

 Ind. Timbers, 317. H. tibetana, Schlecht. in Linncea I. c, 



NOBTH-WESTEEN HIMALAYA ; in the beds of streams of the inner drier ranges, 

 from Kumaon westwards, alt. 7000-12,000 ft. WESTERN TIBET, ascending to 15,000ft. 

 DISTRIB. Affghanistan and westwards to N. and Middle Europe, N. and Central 

 Asia. 



A thorny shrub or small tree, with, rigid branches and silvery twigs and leaves. 

 Leaves -2 in., narrowed into the short petiole, above sparsely scaly when young, 

 green and glabrous in age, beneath clothed with circular toothed scales. Flowers on 

 the old wood ; male minute ; perianth -segments oblong ; filaments short. Fruit in. 

 diaua., oblong or globose, orange yellow or scarlet. Excessively variable in habit, 

 and in the density of the foliage, and the breadth and shape of the leaves. 



2. K. salicifolia, Don Prodr. 68 ; leaves linear-lanceolate densely 

 clothed beneath with white or rusty stellate hairs and some circular scales. 

 Scklecht. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 607, and in Linncea xxxii. 295 ; Brand. For. 

 Fl. 387. H. conferta, Wall. Cat. 4032 ; Royle III. 323. 



TEMPEEATE HIMALAYA, from Jamu to Sikkim, alt. 5-10,000 ft. 



A willow-like shrub, 10-20 ft., with lateral thorns. Leaves 2-4 in., dull green 

 and glabrous or pubescent above, margins usually recurved, midrib often rusty red. 

 Floiver as in H. rhamnoides, but fruit smaller (always ?). Different as this plant looks 

 in its ordinary condition from H. rhamnoides, I expect that it will prove a form of 

 that plant due to the moister climate which it affects. 



OUDER CXXXII. LORANTHACE2E. 



Parasitic evergreen shrubs. Leaves usually opposite, entire, exstipulate, 

 sometimes absent. Flowers 1-2-sexual, racemed spicate or fascicled, usually 

 bracteate and often 2-bracteolate. Calyx adnate to the ovary, limb 

 truncate or 0, rarely toothed. Petals 4-8, free or connate, valvate in bud. 

 Stamens equal to and opposite the corolla-lobes, usually inserted on them. 

 Ovary inferior, 1-celled ; style short or long, stigma simple ; ovule 1, erect, 

 adnate all round to the walls of the ovary. Fruit a 1 -seeded berry or 

 drupe. Seed adnate to the pericarp, albumen fleshy ; embryo straight, 

 radicle superior. Genera 13, native of tropical and a few of temperate 

 countries ; species about 500. 



Flowers 2-sexual 1. LOBANTHUS. 



Flower 1-sexual. 



Anthers adnate to the petals, opening by pores .... 2. ViSCUM. 



Anthers on the middle of the petals, dehiscing transversely 3. AECEUTHOBITJM. 



Anthers at the base of the petals, many-celled .... 4. NOTOTHIXOS. 



Anthers at the base of the petals, 2-celled 5. GINALLOA. 



1. XiORANTHUS, Linn. 



Leaves opposite or alternate. Flowers 2-sexual. Petals free or more or 

 less connate into a tubular corolla with spreading tips. Stamens inserted 

 on the petals, anthers adnate or versatile, cells parallel. Species about 350, 

 mostly tropical. 



