Viscum.] cxxxn. LORANTHACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 227 



Var. coraloides, Wight Ic. 1. 1019 ; dioecious, branclilets narrower, all female. 

 Nilghiri Hills, abundant, Wight (who states that he has never found male 

 flowers). 



DOUBTFUL AND EXCLUDED SPECIES^ 



V. GKOsstJM, Wight in Wight ty Am. Prodr. 380 ; Wall. Cat. 6879. Wight and 

 Wallich's plants consist of nothing but fragments of branches resembling those of 

 V. album. The flowers are described as -fascicled at the nodes, but there are none in 

 the specimens. It is a native of the Dindygul Hills in the Southern Carnatic. 



V. ? HETERANTHTJM, Wall. Cat.ASS; DQ. Prodr. iv. 279 (V. latifolium, Ham. 

 in Don Prodr. 142. V. platyphyllum, Spreng. Cur. Post. 47; DC. I. c.), iaHenslovia 

 heterantha, Hook. f. & Thorns. 



V. WALLICHIANUM, WigU % Am. Prodr. 379 (excl. syn. V. Wiglitianum) ; 

 stem and branches terete, whorled opposite or dichotomously, nodes swollen leaves 

 2-2| in. flat very stoutly petioled very thick and coriaceous oblong obscurely 3-nerved 

 base cuneate, flowers unknown. There is a scrap of this in Wight's Herbarium 

 without locality ; it a good deal resembles V. alburn^ but is, I think, distinct. There 

 are also fragments of it in Wallich's Herbarium, fastened on the sheet with V. 

 WigUianum, Wight & Arn. (not Walfieh), and numbered 491, which is V. orientals, 

 a very different plant. 



V. WIGHTIANTTM, WigU fy Arn. Prodr. 380 (not of Wallich); stem and 

 branches terete whorled or dichotomous, nodes thickened, leaves 2 -2J in. very coria- 

 ceous subsessile broadly elliptic rounded at both ends tip rounded grey and opaque 

 when dry nerves very obscure, flowers unknown. Apparently a very distinct species, 

 of which there are fragments in Wight's Herbarium without locality, and in Wallich's 

 mixed with V. Wallichianum. 



2. ARCETJTHOBIUM, RlcJi. 



Minute green leafless parasites, with the leaves reduced to opposite scales 

 in which the very minute ebracteolate dioecious P solitary flowers are sunk. 

 Perianth as in Viscum, but 2-5-partite, and always persistent. Anthers 

 globose, bursting transversely. Species 5-6, S. Europe, W. Asia, N. 

 America. 



A. minutissimum, Hook f. ; stem none but the inconspicuous stock 

 that ramifies within the bark and which the minute branches perforate but 

 scarcely rise above the surface, appearing as a 2-lipped cup, male fl. sessile 

 in the cup 3-5 -partite, fern. fl. pedicelled. 



KUMAON HIMALAYA, alt. 10,700 ft., on Pinus excelsa, Duthie. 



The most minute dicotyledonous plant that I can call to mind. 



3. NOTOTHXXOS, Oliv. 



Dichotomously branched parasitic hoary or tomentose shrubs. Leaves 

 opposite, flat, coriaceous. Flowers minute, monoecious, in unisexual heads, 

 or spikes, like those of Viscum> but the subsessile anthers are broad, erect, 

 many-celled and lobulate ? and dehisce by pores or a transverse slit at the 

 apex. Species 4, a Cingalese and three Australian. 



N. floccosus, Oliv. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond. vii. 104; densely woolly 

 tomentose, branched, leaves orbicular or broadly ovate obtuse, flowers 

 spicate, anthers bursting by many pores. Viscum floccosum, Thwaitcs 

 Eniim. 418. 



CEYLON ; in the Ambagamowa and Hatnapoora Districts, Thwaites. 

 Much branched; branches sknder, young tomentose. Leaves -^ in. long, 



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