66 LOEANTHACEM. [ VISCUM. 



Bundelkhand (Edgeworth), Siwalik range near Dehra Dun (Kanjilal). 

 DISTRIB. : Sub-trop. Himalaya from the Punjab eastwards to 

 Sikkim and up to 3,000 ft. ; also in Central, W. and S. India and 

 Ceylon ; extending to Burma and the Malay Peninsula and Islands 

 to Australia. V. dichotomum appears to be the more common form 

 within the area of this flora, and may be distinguished by its more 

 robust habit and by its thicker and broader internodes. 



V. ALBUM. Linn, is the true " Mistletoe," easily distinguished from the 

 other species of this genus by its large 'flat coriaceous leaves, the 

 dioecious flowers, and by its white almost transparent berries. In 

 India it is confined to the N. W. Himalaya at elevations be- 

 tween 4,000 and 9,000 ft. It is found on various trees, but very 

 rarely on oaks. It extends westwards through Afghanistan to the 

 Atlantic and to N. Asia and eastwards to Japan. 



XCVIII. -S ANT ALACE JE. 



Trees shrubs or herbs, often semi-parasitic on roots. Leaves 

 alternate or opposite, quite entire, sometimes scale-like or none, 

 nerves inconspicuous, stipules none. Flowers 2-or 1 -sexual, 

 regular, usually small, in simple or compound cymes, bracts 

 usually small or sometimes leafy ; bracteoles 2, free or connate, 

 sub-opposite, sometimes one or both obsolete. Perianth superior or 

 inferior, simple, green or coloured : limb 3-8-toothed-lobed or 

 -partite, lobes with often a tuft of hair behind the anthers. Stamens 

 at many as and opposite the perianth-lobes, adnate above, rarely 

 at its base ; filaments filiform or broad ; anthers 2-celled, bursting 

 inwards or laterally. Disk epigynous or perigynous. Ovary usually 

 inferior and 1-celled, style usually short, stigma entire or 3-6-lobed ; 

 ovules 2-3, adnate to or pendulous from a central column, rarely 

 solitary and basal. Fruit a nut or drupe. Seed globose or ovoid, 

 smooth rugose or sulcate, testa thin or obsolete ; albumen copious, 

 fleshy, radicle superior. Species about 250, in temp, and trop. 

 regions. 



OSYRIS, Linn. ; Fl. Brit, Ind. v, 231. 



Shrubs, Glabrous, branchlets acutely angular. Leaves alternate, 

 entire, exstipulate. Flowers small, axillary, polygamous ; male- 

 flowers in clusters, the bisexual often solitary. Perianth-tube solid 

 in the male-flowers, of the bisexual flowers adnate to the ovary ; 

 lobes 3-4, triangular, valvate, with a tuft of hairs on the face. 



