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LORANTHACE^). XI. ELYTRANTHE. XII. NOTANTHERA. 



forming a sheath to the flowers). Flowers tubular, 6-cleft, hex- 

 undrous ; lobes of limb linear, acute. Flower-buds nearly terete. 

 Anthers erect. Flowers sessile, and decussate along the rachis of 

 the spikes, furnished each with 3 bracteas, one under the flower 

 and tiro opposite lateral combined ones ; all large, concave, and 

 deciduous. 



23 E. A'LBIDA (Blum, in litt. 1329.) glabrous ; branches com- 

 pressed ; leaves opposite, oval-oblong, acute, coriaceous ; spikes 

 axillary, on short peduncles, sub-capitate, each bearing 4 decus- 

 sate, tribracteate flowers. Tj . P. S. Native of Java, in woods 

 on the mountains. Loranthus albidus, Blum, bijdr. p. 665. 



Whitish Elytranthe. Shrub par. 



24 E. ? OBMUNITUS ; branches terete, straight ; leaves spatu- 

 lately linear, thickened at the apex ; peduncles nutant, some- 

 what secund. Jj . P. S. Native of Brazil, on the banks of 

 the Rio Grande. Loranthus obmunitus, Spreng. cur. port. 1 39. 

 Each ovarium is supported by a cup-shaped bractea, or by 3 

 concrete ones. 



Clothed Elytranthe. Shrub par. 



Cult. Like the rest of the genera of the present order, the 

 species are not cultivable. The plants have much the habit of 

 Lonicera. 



XII. NOTANTHE'RA (from VOITOC, notos, the back, and 

 ac9i)p, anthera, an anther ; the anthers are fixed by the back 

 to the filaments ; hence they are oscillatory). Loranthus, sect, 

 iv. Notanthera, exclusive of 1. Tetramera and 3. Calan- 

 thffi, D. C. prod. 4. p. 307. Loranthus species of authors. 



LIN. SYST. Penta-Hexandria, Monogynia. Flowers her- 

 maphrodite. Petals 5-6-7-8, but usually 6, sometimes almost 

 distinct to the base, and sometimes equally joined together at 

 the base, linear or lanceolate. Stamens equal in number to the 

 petals" ; filaments adnate to the corolla at the base, but free at 

 the apex ; anthers fixed by the back, oscillatory or incumbent. 

 Style filiform. Stigma clavate. Berries ovate. Parasitical shrubs, 

 natives of South America, except one from Asia. Peduncles 

 corymbose or racemose ; branchlets usually bearing 3 flowers 

 and 3 bracteas ; sometimes the pedicels are 1 -flowered, and with 

 a bractea under each flower. 



1 . Pentamera (from trevre, pente, five, and pepic, meris, a 

 part ; the flowers are pentamerous or divided into 5 parts). 

 Planters pentamerous and pentandrous, large, from 1-8 inches 

 long. 



1 N. GRANDIFLORUS ; shrub glabrous, dependent ; stems te- 

 rete ; leaves on short petioles, oval, thick ; racemes terminal, 

 subcorymbose, few-flowered ; pedicels bearing each 1 flower 

 and 1 bractea ; bracteas ovate, concave, length of fruit ; petals 

 .5, linear, joined to the middle ; anthers versatile. tj. P. G. 

 Native of Peru, parasitical on trees, where it is called Hatun 

 Mecmci. Loranthus grandiflorus, Ruiz, et Pav. fl. per. 3. p. 

 45. t. 273. f. a. Schultes, syst. 7. p. 115. Corolla very long. 

 Berry blue, size of an olive. 



Great-flowered Notanthera. Shrub par. 



2 N. LONGIBRACTEA'TUS ; glabrous ; branches terete ; leaves 

 scattered, lanceolate, or ovate-lanceolate, acute, sessile, coria- 

 ceous, veinless ; spikes terminal ; bracteas foliaceous, linear- 

 lanceolate ; flowers adhering to the bracteas at the base ; flower- 

 bud clavate ; petals 5, linear ; anthers versatile. F? . P. G. 

 Native of Peru. Loranthus longibracteatus, Desr. in Lam. 

 diet. 3. p. 59!). Schultes, syst. 7. p. 1 17. Leaves 18-24 lines 

 long, and 8-9 lines broad. Corolla 2| inches long. 



Long-bractead Notanthera. Shrub par. 



3 N. VERTICILLA'TUS ; branches terete, 3 in a whorl ; leaves 

 also usually 3 in a whorl, lanceolate, nerveless, glaucous, usually 

 secund ; flowers terminal, secund, crowded into heads ; bracteas 

 ovate, concave, 1 under each flower; petals 5, joined at the base, 



spatulately-lanceolate and revolute at the apex ; anthers oblong. 

 Tj . P. G. Native of Chili, upon trees and shrubs on the banks 

 of the river Andalien. Loranthus verticillatus, Ruiz, et Pav. 

 fl. per. 3. p. 47. Schultes, syst. 7. p. 117. Berry oval, black- 

 ish purple. 



Whorled Notanthera. Shrub par. 



4 N. CJE'SIUS ; glabrous ; branches terete ; leaves on short 

 petioles, ovate-lanceolate, or lanceolate, thickish, veinless ; pe- 

 duncles 1 -flowered, disposed in terminal racemes, bearing under 

 each flower an oblong bractea, which is 3 times longer than 

 the ovarium ; petals 5, joined to the middle, and spreading 

 at the apex, linear ; anthers incumbent. fj . P. G. Native of 

 the Andes of Peru, upon trees. Loranthus cse'sius, Spreng 

 syst. 1. p. 132. Loranthus glaucus, Ruiz, et Pav. fl. per. 3. 

 p. 45. t. 275. f. b. H. B. et Kunth, nov. gen. amer. 3. p. 438. 

 but not of Thunb. Loranthus corymbosus, Dietr. gart. lex. 

 4. p. 468. Schultes, syst. 7. p. 115. Leaves an inch or more 

 long, and half an inch broad ; petioles 2 lines long. Flowers 

 an inch long, red at base and apex, but yellow in the middle. 

 Berry oval, dark purple. This species is nearly allied to N. 

 longebracteatus. 



Grey Notanthera. Shrub par. 



5 N. POEPPI'GII ; glabrous ; branches terete, rather glaucous ; 

 leaves opposite, on short petioles, lanceolate, thickish, veinless ; 

 peduncles 1-flowered, disposed in a terminal raceme, bearing an 

 ovate, acute bractea under each flower, which is one-half shorter 

 than the ovarium ; limb of calyx truncate ; petals 5, joined 

 together a little beyond the middle ; anthers fixed by the back 

 to the filaments. Jj . P. G. Native of Chili, where it was 

 collected by Poeppig. Leaves an inch long. Flowers 2 inches 

 long. 



Poeppig's Notanthera. Shrub par. 



6 N. STERNBERGIA'NUS ; glabrous ; branches terete ; leaves 

 ovate or oval, obtuse, coriaceous, veinless above ; peduncles 

 many, short, 1-flowered, crowded, corymbose, rising from the 

 axils of the upper leaves and the top's of the branches : bracteas 

 ovate, one under each ovarium, and shorter than it ; petals 5, 

 linear, hardly concrete at the base ; anthers versatile. Jj . P. G. 

 Native of Chili, near La Guardia, and Aconcagua, and on the 

 Cordillera of Chili. Loranthus Sternbergianus, Schultes, fil. in 

 herb. Hsenke, and syst. 7. p. 116. Loranthus glaucus, Gill, but 

 not of Ruiz and Pav. nor Thunb. Leaves 12-15 lines long, and 

 8-10 broad; petioles 1^ line long. Allied to N.caisius, but 

 differs in the bracteas being one half shorter than the ovaries, 

 not 3 times longer. 



Sternberg's Notanthera. Shrub par. 



7 N. ? POHLII ; glabrous ; branches terete ; leaves oval, ob- 

 tuse at both ends, on short petioles, thick, coriaceous, glaucous ; 

 the middle nerve hardly distinct at the base, the rest of it obso- 

 lete ; peduncles axillary, solitary, shorter than the leaves, oppo- 

 site, dichotomously corymbose, few-flowered ; petals 5, linear, 

 thick, almost distinct, bearing each a ligula beneath the stamens; 

 anthers versatile. ^ P- S. Native of Brazil, where it was 

 detected by Pohl. Loranthus glaucus, Pohl. in litt. but not of 

 others. Loranthus Pohlii, D. C. prod. 4. p. 308. Leaves 12- 

 15 inches long, and 8-9 broad. Corolla an inch long. Brac- 

 teas small, very blunt, one under each flower. Perhaps a species 

 of Psitlacdnthus. 



Pohl's Notanthera. Shrub par. 



| 2. Micranthce (from /uiicpoc, micros, small, and avOog, 

 anthos, a flower ; flowers of the species small). Flowers small, 

 usually hexamerous or divided into 6 parts, but in a very fen they 

 are divided into 4-5-7 parts, disposed in racemes ; the branches 

 of the raceme usually bearing 3 flowers and 3 bracleas each. 

 Species all natives of America. 



