188 LORAXTHACE.*. 



synandrium ad centmm floris insitum sessile depresso-globosum 3-valvatim vel 

 poro central! dehiscens. Ovarium in fl. $ nulluin in fl. -9- infemm ; stigma 

 crassum pulviniforme in summo ovarii sessile. Bacca perianthii lobis adpressis 

 coronata, mesocarpio succulento viscifero. Embryo albumine copioso carnoso 



inclusus teres. Sufrrutex in arbores parasiticus, ramis oppositis nodosis. Folia 



ad squamas reducta. Mores ad nodos v. ad apices ramoriim glomerati sessiles. 

 Bractea parva pectinato-ciliata. Species unica. India, Malaya, Mauritius, 

 Australia, Polynesia (fide HOOKER), Loo-choo, Bonin, Formosa et Japonia. 



The present genus is closely allied to Bifaria VAN TIEGHEM in having 

 trimerous flowers and in the shape of the internodes. VAX TIEGHEM does not 

 give any diagnosis of his genus. But, judging from the detailed accounts given 

 by the author of the tribus Bifarieae, the genus seems to have male flowers 

 with stamens opposite to the perianth-lobes and U-formed embryo-sacs, as is 

 the case with KortJialsella. In establishing Bifaria, VAN TIEGHEM distingu- 

 ishes at least as many as 56 species, including Viscum japonicum THUXB. on 

 which our genus Pseudixus was founded. Although he gives no remark on 

 what species he establishd his genus Bifaria, yet it is very reasonable to think 

 that the latter was founded on a species other than Viscum japonicum 

 THUNB. As the latter is not congeneric with other species of Bifaria, it should 

 to excluded from the species enumerated by VAX TIEGHEM as belonging to his 

 genus. 



Pseudixus japonicus HAYATA n. n. (Fig. 64). 



Viscum moniliforme (B. C.) WIGHT Ic. PI. t. 1018. 



Viscum moniliforme (B. C.) var. coral ioides WIGHT Ic. PL t. 1019. 



Viscum moniliforme BLUJIE Fl. Jav. Lor. t. 25. 



Viscum japonicum THUXB. in Trans. Linn. Soc. II. p. 329 ; DC. Prodr. 

 IV. p. 283 ; HOOK. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. V. p. 226; FORBES et HEMSL. Ind. Fl. Sin. 

 II. p. 407. 



Viscum articidatum FRAXCH. et SAVAT. Enuni PI. Jap. I. p. 406. 



Bifaria japonica VAX TIEGHEM in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. XLHL p. 173, 

 (1896). 



Koi-thalsella japonica EXGL. in EXGL. u. PRAXTL Nat. Pfl.-fam. Xachtr. 

 I. p. 138, (1897) ; GAMBLE in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXXV. p. 384 (1914). 



