Henslovia.} cxxxm. SANTALACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 233 



females without stamens. Stigma pulvinate, sessile, obscurely lobed. I find no 

 difference between A. De Candolle's var. Sikkimensis and the Khasia plant. The 

 bracts are not more than half a line long (about ^ in-)- 



2. XX. heterantha, Hook.f. $ Thorns, in Herb. Ind. Or. ; branches 

 smooth or sparingly pustulate, flowers sessile on the top of very short 

 solitary or clustered peduncles which are bracteate at the base and tip only, 

 the bracts at the tip forming a spreading involucre, males numerous, females 

 1 or few, fruit small elliptic-oblong, pyrene 5-6-furrowed. A. DC. Prodr. 

 xiv. 632 (excl. syn. H.frutescens) ; Kurz For. FL ii. 328. ? H. umbellata, 

 Blume Mus. Sot. i. 2i3 ; A. DC. I. c. 630. Viscum ? heteranthum, Wall. 

 Cat. 488 ; DC. Prodr. iv. 279. Y. latifolium, Ham. in Don Prodr. 142 ; 

 DC. 1. c. V. platyphyllum, Spreng. Cur. Post. 47. 



CENTRAL and EASTERN HIMALAYA. ; Nepal, Hamilton, Wallich. SIKKIM, alt. 

 2-5000 ft., J. D. H. ? PEGU and MAETABAN, alt. 4-7000 ft., Kurz. DISTKIB. 

 ? Java. 



A small parasitic shrub, with erect and spreading rough usually pale-brown 

 branches, often minutely pustular. Leaves very variable, elliptic ovate or rounded, 

 1-4 in. long, sometimes as broad and orbicular, 5-9-nerved, narrowed into the petiole. 

 Flowers about the size of H. granulata ; females without or with very imperfect 

 stamens; stigma very shortly 5-lobed, subsessile. Fruit red, tasting of Pyrus 

 aucuparia'm Sikkim ( in. long and less); yellow in the Martaban plant, Kurz. 

 Kurz describes two varieties from Martaban, heterantha proper, with 5-merous sessile 

 or subsessile flowers, and coriacea with 6-merous shortly pedicelled flowers. The 

 Hong Kong H. frutescens, Bentli., united with heterantha by A. DC., is, I think, dif- 

 ferent, having fewer nerves, a much larger fruit, and pedicelled male flowers : it is 

 described as terrestrial. 



Var. ? sessiliflora ; flowers quite sessile. Khasia Mts., on Oaks near Nowgong. 



3. H. Xiobbiana, A. DC. Prodr. xiv. 631 ; branches terete twining 

 smooth or faintly granulate, male flowers very minute few spicate, 

 towards the tips of short strict clustered peduncles which are bracteate only 

 at the base and under each flower, females on short fascicled bracteate 

 pedicels, fruit globose or shortly oblong, pyrene nearly smooth obscurely 

 5-7-furrowed, stigma stellately 5-lobed. 



PENANG, Lobb.; on the top of Government Hill, Maingay (Keio Distrib. 

 No. 1315), Curtis. MALACCA, Griffith, Maingay (Keio Distrib. 1313). 



A creeper according to Maingay, some of the branches of whose specimens are 

 twining. Leaves from obovate-spathulate to orbicular, very coriaceous, dark brown 

 when dry. Peduncles of male spikes - in. long ; flowers sessile or very shortly 

 pedicelled, -L in. diam., subglobose. Pedicels of female VrVs * n< l u g> bracts very 

 minute in both sexes. Perianth-tube of female longer than the pedicel; lobes 5, 

 each with a stamen. I have described this from Lobb's specimens (No. 334), which 

 are from Penang (not Singapore), as are those of Maingay and Curtis. I do not 

 fiud the leaves to be puuctato-verrucose beneath as described by A. De Candolle, nor 

 the perianth-lobes as pilose. 



4. S. varians, Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. i. 244, t. 43 ; branches 

 terete twining nearly smooth, male fl. racemose or clustered on stout 

 peduncles which are bracteate at the base and under each flower, females 

 fascicled pedicelled, fruit shortly ellipsoid, endocarp 5-furrowed and rugose. 

 A. DC. Prodr. xiv. 631. ? H. philippinensis, A. DC. 1. c. Dendrotrophe 

 varians, Miq. FL. Ind. Bat. i. 780. 



TENASSEUIM:; Mergui, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4390,4392). MALACCA, Maingay 

 (Ketv Distrib. 1316/2), ? Cumintf (No. 2255). DISTRIB. Borneo. 



Very closely allied to H. Lobbiana, but the leaves arc much paler when dry, with 





