224 cxxxn. LORANTIIACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Viseum, 



2. V. monoicum, Roxb. Fl. f 2nd. iii. 763 ; branches terete, leaves 

 shortly petioled obliquely ovate or falcate acute or acuminate 3-5-nervcd, 

 flowers monoecious in axillary sessile or shortly pedimcled fascicles, bracts 

 cuspidate, fruit oblong. DC. Prodr. iv. 278 ; Brandts For. Fl. 393 ; Knrz 

 For. FL ii. 324 ; Wight <$f Arn. Prodr. 379 (under F. orient ale) ; Griff. 

 Notul. iv. 637, and 'lc. PI. Asiat. t. 631. V. falcatum, Wall. Cat. 41)2 ; 

 DC. 1. c. V. benghalensis, Roxb. mss. P V. confertum, Roxb. I. c. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 2-4000 ft., J. D. H. KHASIA MTS., alt. 0-3000 ft., 

 Wallich, &c. GANGES DELTA, Roxburgh. OUDB, Vicary. MAETABAN and TENAS- 

 SEEIM, Kurz. NILGHIBI or KrEa HILLS, G. Thomson. 



A large shrub. Leaves rather thin, 1-5 in. long, very variable in breadth, nerves 

 often strong. Flowers 1-3, minute, greenish, the lateral usually female,- central 

 male or absent, sometimes appearing spicate from terminating leafless shoots. 

 Perianth-segments 4, triangular-oblong. Fruit the size of a pea truncate smooth 

 " yellowish," Kurz, "blackish brown," Brandis. Much of the above description is 

 taken from Kurz. I follow Wight and Arnott in regarding Roxburgh's F. confertum 

 from Silhet as probably the same. 



Var. ? Edgeivorthii ; branches more robust, leaves very thickly coriaceous some- 

 times 2^ in. broad and 7-nerved. Banda, on Zizyphus, Edgeivorth. This may be a 

 different species. 



3. V. verruculosum, Wight <$f Arn. Prodr. 379 ; branches terete 

 opposite and whorled, leaves petioled obovate oblong or rounded obtuse or 

 acute base cuneate 3-5-nerved, peduncles axillary 3-fld., flowers monoecious, 

 fruit linear-oblong warted. V. monoicum ? Wight in Wall. Cat. 6875. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; on the Dindygul Hills, alt. 2500 ft., Wight. 



Branches rather slender, terete, branchlets angular. Leaves ^-1| in., black 

 when dry, not thickly coriaceous. Flowers as in F". orienfale, of which it is (as 

 suggested by Wight and Arnott) perhaps a variety, but according to Wight the 

 fruit is very different, being long slender and warted. Thwaites unites it with 

 orientale^ but gives no reason. 



4. V. orientale, Wllld. Sp. PL iv. 737 ; branches terete or angled 

 and grooved opposite and whorled, leaves petioled from ofeovate to elliptic 

 oblong and linear oblong obtuse 3-5-nerved, base narrowed or rounded, 

 flowers few or many in sessile or peduncled clusters monoecious, fruit glo- 

 bose smooth. DC. Prodr. iv. 278; Wight fy Arn. Prodr. 324; Brand. 

 For. Fl. 393 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 324 ; Blume Fl. Jav. Loranth. t 24 25 

 fienth. Fl. Austral, iii. 396 ; Miguel Fl. Ind. Sat. i. pt. 1, 804 ; Wall'. Cat. 

 491. V. verticillatum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 764. Y. Heyneanum, DO. I. c. 

 V. indicum. Rottl. mss. 



BENGAL, BEHAE, and CHITTAGONG, and thence southward to SINGAPOEE and 

 TEAVANCOEE. CEYLON ; Central Province, ascending to 7000 ft. DISTEIB. Malay 

 Islands, China, New Guinea, Australia. 



A rather large much-branched shrub, black or brown when dry ; branches often 

 very slender, branchlets angular. Leave? rarely more than 1 in., often unequal. 

 Flowers minute, rarely more than 5. Flowers as in V. foliatum, but perianth 

 usually 3-cleft. Fruit the size of a pea (Kurz), " purple, copiously minutely dotted," 

 W. & A. I can-not distinguish between specimens with deeply grooved and angled 

 branches, and those with terete ones, there are so many intermed ; ates. 



5. V. orbiculatum, Wight Ic. t. 1016, and Spec. NeiJgJicrr. t. 86 ; 

 branches and branchlets acutely angled and deeply grooved, leaves petioled 

 .elliptic oblong or rounded much waved obtuse 3-5-nerved, flowers 3-5 in 



sesdle or peduncled axillary clusters, fruit oblong rounded at both ends. 



NILGHIEI HILLS, Wight, Herb. Hohenack. 



