Viscum."] cxxxn. LORANTHACE^. (J. D. Hooker,) 225 



I doubt this being anything but a form of V. orientate with the main branches 

 augled and grooved and leaves much waved. 



6. V. ovalifolium, Wall. Cat. 489; branches stout terete, leaves 

 petioled very coriaceous elliptic or oblong rarely ovate, obtuse 3-5-nerved, 

 flowers dioecious ? crowded in axillary sometimes spicate clusters, perianth 

 4-lobed, fruit oblong-ovoid. DC. Prodr. iv. 278; Kurz For. Fl.ii. 325. 

 V. obtusatum, Wall. Cat. 494 ; DC. I. c. 



TENASSERIM, Griffith, Lobb, &c. ANDAMAN ISLANDS, Kurz. MALACCA, 

 Griffith (Kew Distrib. 2739), Maingay (Slew Distrib. 696). PENANG, Wallich. 

 DJSTRIB. China, Ava. 



This resembles a very large stout form of F. orientate with larger very thickly 

 coriaceous leaves 2-4| in. long, and more numerous flowers clustered at the axils 

 and nodes. Perianth 4-merous. V. ovalifolium (and V. obtusatum) are reduced to 

 varieties of F. orientale by Miquel, Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 1, 805, perhaps correctly. 



7. V. capitellatum, Sm. in Sees Cycl. xxxvii. ; dwarf , branches short 

 terete very stout, leaves shortly petioled ovate obovate spathulate or orbicular 

 concave above obscurely 3-nerved tip rounded base cuneate upper smaller 

 linear-oblong, flowers 3-6 terminating solitary fascicled or whorled pedun- 

 cles, fruit ovoid. DC. Prodr. iv. 279 ; Wight # Am. Prodr. 330. Y. 

 mangiferfe, Wight in Wall. Cat. 6878. V. verticillatum, Herb. Rottl. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; from Canara at Sindole', Ritchie, southwards. CEYLON, 

 common, Thiuaites. 



A small species, forming much-branched tufts 6-10 in. long and broad, ofcen 

 parasitic on other LorantJiacece. Leaves -1 in. long, and often as broad, apparently 

 sometimes wanting. Peduncles very variable in length, ^ in. or less; bracts 

 rounded. 



8. V. ramosissimum, Wall. Cat. 6876 ; branches terete very long 

 and slender, leaves or very few sessile petioled obovate or linear-oblong or 

 -cuneate tip rounded base cuneate obscurely 3-nerved, flowers 1-3 minute 

 sessile, fruit subglobose minute. Wight fy Arn. Prodr. 380. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; on the Ghats and low grounds, from the Concan southward?. 

 ? SINGAPORE, Murton. CEYLON; on Rhododendron at Maturata, Trimen. 



Branches 10-18 in. long, striate; internodes 1-2 in. long, nodes hardly swollen, 

 not contracted. Leaves 1 in., coriaceous, only one or two pairs at the bases of the 

 main branches in a few specimens, the majority are leafless. It is not easy to dis- 

 tinguish some specimens of this from V. angulatum. The Singapore specimens are 

 imperfect ; if not ramosissimum, they are probably an undescribed species. 



*** Leafless. Perianth-lobes deciduous. 



9. V. ang-ulatum, Heyne mss.\ DC. Prodr. iv. 283; leafless, 

 branches angled long and slender nodes not swollen or contracted, flowers 

 very minute sessile solitary or whorled at the nodes, perianth-lobes deciduous. 

 Wight $ Arn. Prodr. 380; Dalz. Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl 110; Bentk. Fl. 

 Austral, iii. 396 ; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 1, 806 ; Wall. Cat. 497. V. 

 attenuatum, Herb. Holien. n. 1478. V. ramosissimum, Wight Jc. t. 1017. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; on the Ghats and low grounds, from the Concan southwards. 

 DISTRIB. Java, Australia. 



Habit of V. ramosissimum, but never so slender as that sometimes is, and always 

 leafless as far as is known j main stem terete, branches acutely 4-angled or (when 

 dry) many-angled below. 



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