LOUANTHACE^. URTICACE.T:. 111 



Loranthaceae. 

 IjoyanfJitfs LiNN. 



Loranthus Kaempferi Maxim. Mel. Liol. IX. ].. G12 : Fu.^ch. et Sav. 

 Eimm. ri. J;i]). II. p. 482; Matsum. Ind. Pl. Ja]). IT.— 2, ]>. 48. 



Hap.. Nanto : inter Ushoko ct Kcitao, leg. IJ. ]\AM;initA ct S. Sasaki, 

 No. 92. 



Ecsenil)les vcry mucli tlie named spccics. As tlie s])ecimen lacks Howers, 

 the detcrmination is rathcr conjectnral. 



Urticaceae. 



FicHS LlNN. 



In working up the genus, I found it extremcly difficult to follow thc system 

 given hy George King in his claborate work, '' The S])ecies of Fivvs of the 

 Indo-Malayan and Chinese Countries," in Annals of the Royal Botanic Garden, 

 Calcutta, Yol. I. (1887-1888); for thc hcrbarium-materials can nevcr be sufHcient 

 enough to considcr the charactcrs of all the kinds of llowers. To meet tlie 

 practical purpose, I did not follow any system, but classihcd the specics, according 

 to their leaves, habits and shapes of the rcce])tacles, withoiit going iiito details 

 as to the characters of flowers. 



Key to species. 



1. Scandcnt or creeping shrubs 2. 



Erect shrubs or trecs 8, 



2. Adult leavcs less than li cm. long ; ])iostrate ; rcceptacles nearly globose, 



lcss than 1 cm. in diamcter 1. F. vdccinioides. 



Adult lcaves morc than 2 cm. long, (if sma]l('r. neithcr creeping nor 

 prostrate) 3 . 



3. Recci)taclcs smaller than 1| cm. in diameter 4. 



Ecce])tacles inore than 3 cm. in diameter G. 



4. Stem very slender, scandent but not prostratc ; lcaves linear ol)ovate entirc 



