228 oxxxii. LORANTHACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Notothixos. 



petioled, ovate, 3-nerved and transversely veined, coriaceous, glabrous above with sunk 

 nerves, beneath densely clothed with ochreous woolly tomentum ; petiole - in., 

 woolly. Flowers few, terminal in short spikes. Anthers 8-celled and lobed. 

 Perianth-lobes 3-4, triangular, acute, persistent. Style very short, conical. Fruit 

 ovoid, white, in. long. Hardly generically separable from Viscum, but the habit and 

 woolliness are those of Notothixos. 



4. GXNAXiXiOA, Korth. 



Parasitic very slender glabrous shrubs, with the habit of the leafy 

 Vi scums, but the flowers are spicate, the branches have usually a thickening 

 at the base like a sheath, and the anthers are didymous 2-celled and open 

 by slits lengthwise. Species 4, Malayan. 



* Flowers in a cupular bract. 



1. Cr. Helferi, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 326 ; leaves linear-cuneate \-\ in. 

 diam. tip rounded or einarginate 5-nerved. Yiscum Helferi. Presl Epimel. 

 Sot. 256. 



TENASSEKIM, Heifer. 



Leaves 3-4 in., tapering to the sessile base, thinly coriaceous. Spikes 1-2 in., 

 terminal or in the forks, very slender. Flowers minute; perianth-segments 3, 

 triangular, acute. Anthers large, sessile. 



2. Cr. spathulifolia, Oliv. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 103 ; leaves 

 linear or narrowly linear-spathulate - ^ in diam. nerves very obscure. 

 Yiscum spathulifolium, Thwaites Enum. 136. 



CEYLON ; on Adams Peak, Gardner, Thwaites. 



Leaves 2-3 in., tapering to the sessile base, thinly coriaceous, tip obtuse or retuse. 

 Spikes 1-2 in., terminal and in the forks, very slender. Perianth-segments 3, tri- 

 angular, at length deciduous. Ovary narrowly oblong. Fruit ellipsoid, nearly in. 

 long. 



** Flowers sunk in the fleshy rachis of the spike. 



3. Cr. andamanica, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Seng. 1872, ii. 309, and 

 For. Fl. ii. 326 ; leaves thickly coriaceous petioled obovate or obovate- 

 oblong obscurely 3-5-nerved. 



SOUTH ANDAMAN ISLAND, Kurz. 



A rather large parasite ; stem terete, dichotomously branched. Leaves l-2 in. 

 long, tip rounded; petiole very short, stout, flat. Spikes 1-4 in., robust, terminal 

 and in the forks. Flowers minute, clustered, dioecious ?, surrounded with a thin 

 dilatation of the rachis ; perianth-segments 3, triangular. Fruit (unripe) elongate. 

 I have seen no specimens. 



OEDEE CXXXIII. SANTAX.ACEJE. 



Trees shrubs or herbs. Leaves alternate or opposite, quite entire, some- 

 times scale-like or 0, exstipulate, nerves inconspicuous. Inflorescence various ; 

 flowers inconspicuous, green, usually bracteate and bracteolate, regular, 

 1-2-sexual. Perianth superior or inferior, 3-8-toothed -lobed or -partite ; 

 lobes with often a tuft of hair behind the anthers. Stamens 3-6, inserted on 

 the lobes above rarely on the base of the perianth and opposite them ; anthers 

 2-celled. Disk various, epigynous or perigynous. Ovary inferior (superior 

 in Champereia), 1-celled ; style usually short, stigma entire or 3-6-lobed ; 



