Loranthus.] cxxxu. LORANTHACE/E. (J. D. Hooker.) 223 



L. KANNELI, Schult. Syst. Veg. vii. 153 \ Wight Sf Arn. Prodr. 387; Rheede 

 Hort. Mai. x. t. 5, is undeterminable. 



L. LAMBEETIANUS, Schult. Syst.vn. 118; DO. Prodr. iv. 317, is probably L. 

 pentapetalus, Roxb., if from Nepal, which is doubtful. 



L. MITCHELII, Wall. Cat. 6865, from Madras, is an Olax, probably O. 

 Wightiana. 



L. OBOVATTJS, Griff. Notul. iv. 622, from Malacca, is apparently near L. fflobosus, 

 differing in the cuneate-obovate leaves. 



L. PUNICETJS, Wall. Cat. 522, from Penang, consists of a few detached alternate 

 lanceolate finely acuminate coriaceous leaves, and a few detached small ellipsoid fruits : 

 it is undeterminable. Wallich says it is like his L. erythrostachys (L. pentwndrws, 

 L.) of Nepal. 



L. BTJQTJLOSTIS, Heyne in Roth Nov. Sp. 194 ; DC. Prodr. iv. 317 ; Wight fy Arn. 

 Prodr. 386, from the Deccan, is undeterminable. It is no doubt a Cichlanthus. 



L. SEBETJLATUS, Roxb. in Steud. Nomencl. Nothing is known of this. 



L. SIAMENSIS, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 320, is a Siam plant allied to L. pentandrus. 



L. TURBINATTTS, DC. Prodr. iv. 305 ; Wight $ Arn. Prodr. 386, from the 

 Nilghiris, is altogether doubtful. Wight and Arnott say that but for the calyx being 

 unequally 4-cleft, it would be referred to a glabrous var. of L. buddleioides, Desr. 

 (Scurrula, L.). 



L. VISCIPOLIUS ? Wight in Wall. Cat. 6865, is in too imperfect a state for de- 

 termination. It was communicated by Wight to Wallich, and is probably L. recurvus, 

 Wall. I find nothing more like it amongst Wight's plants. The exact locality is 

 Cumbum in the Nilghiris, Jany, 1827. 



2. VXSCU1K, Linn. 



Leaves opposite, often reduced to scales. Flowers unisexual, small or 

 minute, solitary or fascicled in the axils of the leaves or at the nodes of the 

 branches, rarely terminal. Perianth-tube of the male solid, of the female 

 adnate to the ovary ; limb 3-4-partite, segments usually deciduous. Anthers 

 broad, sessile, adnate to the perianth-lobes, opening by many pores. Ovary 

 inferior ; stigma sessile or subsessile, large, pulvinate. Fruit succulent, 

 pericarp full of viscid matter. Embryo in fleshy albumen, solitary or 2 in 

 each seed. Species about 30, temperate and tropical. 



* Branches dichotomous, leafy, or the lower whorled. Flowers fascicled, 

 terminal in the forks of the branches. Perianth-lobes deciduous. 



1. V. album, Linn. Sp. PI. 1023; branches terete, leaves obovate- 



cuneate tip rounded, flowers in sessile or shortly peduncled cup-shaped 



bracts. Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 1068 ; DC. Prodr. iv. 278; Brand. For. Fl. 



392; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 323. Y. stellatum, Don Prodr. 142; DC. I.e.-, 



Wall. Cat. 490. 



TEMPEEATE HIMALAYA; from Kashmir to Nepal, alt. 3-7000 ft. DISTEIB. 

 Westward to the Atlantic, N. Asia to Japan. 



A large green bush, branches jointed. Leaves sessile, very coriaceous, flat, 1-2 in. 

 long, broad or narrow, obscurely 3-5-nerved. Flowers direcious, sessile, 3-5 in a 

 cluster, bracts concave. Perianth-segments 3-4, triangular, thick, acute, deciduous. 

 Fruit white, - in. long, ellipsoid. Mistletoe. 



** Branches dichotomous leafy (or leaves in V. ramosissimnm). 

 Floivers in axillary sessile or peduncled fascicles. Perianth-lobes deciduous. 



