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LORANTHACE^E. 



rubescentibus. Racemi terminales vel quasi-axillares (ibique) oppositifolii cum 

 pedunculis 4 cm. longi glaberrimi haud bracteati, pedunculis ^-1 cm. longis ; 

 pseudo-rhachibus rectis circ. 2cm. longis, pedicellis 

 l^mm. longis a se 1-2 mm. remotis apicc sub-cupuli- 

 formibus sub flore articulatis. Perianthiran rabro- 

 piirpurascens elongato-cylindricum IJcm. longum vix 



I mm. latum basi angustius sursum latius, limbo plus 

 minus latiore 4-lobato, lobis rotundatis 2 mm. longis 

 1^ mm. latis apice rotundatis intus concavis plus 

 minus patentibus glaberrimis. Stamina 8, altris 4 

 parte perianthii a basi sursum | altitudine sitis, 

 filamentis liberis filiformibus J mm. longis, antheris 

 linearibus plus quam 1 mm. longis % mm. latis apice 

 obtusis basi 2-lobatis. Discus linearis 2 mm. longus 

 ^ mm. latus apice 2-lobatus complanatus hypogynus 

 lato uno ovarii situs. Ovarium longe stipitatum 

 obovoideum stipitibus exceptis 1 mm. longum \ mm. 

 latum glabrum 1-loculare 1-ovulatum, stipitibus 



I 1 mm. longis basi cum perianthio connatis sursum 



liberis ; stylus glaber \ mm. longus, stigmate oblongo-globoso \ mm. longo dense 

 breve hirsuto. 



HAB. Uraisha, leg. H. INABA, Juli. 1913, fl. 



Near Wikstrcemia japonica MIQ., but differs from it in having much longer 

 racemes, larger flowers, glabrous ovary and especially by the linear undivided 

 single glands rising from the base of the ovaiy on one sied of the latter 



Loranthaeese. 



Xioranthus LINN. 

 Loranthus chinensis DC.; BENTH. Fl. Hongk. p. 141. Frutex, ad ramos 

 arboris Ulmi Nepheliique parasiticus. Bami sublfeves tenuissime rugulosi 

 fusco-rubro-purpurascentes subglabii densiuscule minuteque lenticellati, lenticellis 

 ^mm. in diametro minutissimis rotundatis, ramulis ultimis teretibus dense mbro- 

 tomentosis, tomentis caducissimis. Folia opposita chartacea subconcolora in 



Fig. 63, Wikstrcemia 

 inononectaria HAYATA; a, a 

 leaf, natural size ; b, a flower, 

 before opening, x 2.5 ; c, 

 corolla, expanded, X2.5; d, 

 a stamen, X 10 ; e, ovary with 

 a single nectar, magnified. 



