190 LORANTHACE^. 



triangular! bus ad apicem ovarii adpressis persistentibus. Pseudobacca obovoidea 

 2mm. longa If mm. lata apice rotundata ad summum lol>is perianthii coronata 

 basi cuneato-contracta plus minus complanata. Semina plus minus complanata 

 rotundato-obcordata mm. longa totiusque lata apice cordato-emarginata basi 

 obtusissima, testa tenuissima membranacea ; albumen copiosum ; embryo com- 

 planato-rotundatus vel teres ? 



HAB. Formosa : Linkiho, ad Ehododendrum, leg. H. INABA, Aug. 1911; 

 Mt. Arisan, inter Suisharyo et Funkiko, ad 3000 ped. alt., ad ramos Symploci 

 suisliariensis incola ; Suisharyo, ad 3000 ped. alt., ad Osmantlium Matsumurce, 

 Adinandram et Theam aff. Sasanquam crescens. Bonin : Mt. Asahiyama, 

 ad ramos Litsece glaucce crescens. Ogasawara, ad Sideroxulum ferrugineum. 

 Loo-choo : ad Eugeniam sinensem; Kumejima ad Hicem crenatam. Japan : 

 Miyajima ad Hicem pedunculatam ; Kiyodsumi, ad Cleyram ochnaceam; Ko- 

 dsushima, Theam japonicam et Cinnamomum pedunculatum ; Mt. Shociyama 

 (Prov. Awa), ad Symplocum myrtifolium; Tsushima, ad Cinnamomum pedun- 

 culatum et Ligustrum japonicum. 



It is very probable that Viscum moniliforme BLUME Fl. Jav. Lor. t. 25 is 

 referable to this Pseudixus or Bifaria, as is seen from the ciliate or pectinate 

 bracts and clustered female flowers. HOOKER is not justified to treat both 

 Viscum moniliforme BLUME and Viscum apliyllum GRIFF. (Ic. PL As. t. 630) 

 as referable to V. articulatum BURM. The former two are certainly totally 

 different each other V. apliyllum has no ciliate bracts, while V. moniliforme 

 has ciliate bracts but no involucre like that of the former. It should be granted 

 that V. aphyllum GRIFF, is referable to V. articulatum BURM. on account of 

 the involucrum, while V. moniliforme should be a species closely allied to or 

 identical with V. japonicum, THUNB. Viscum articulatum BENTH. (Fl. Hongk. p. 

 141) is quite different from Pseudixus japonicus. The former has the females 

 " scarcely \ line long, nearly globular, and half-buried in the cup-shaped entire 

 bract," while the latter has the flowers quite free from ciliiformed bracts. 



Viscum, LINN. 



Viscum (Aspidixia) bongariense HAYATA sp. nov. (Fig. 65 et 66). 

 Suffrutex efoliatus parasiticus suberectus pendulus 30-40 cm. longus basi teres 

 4mm. crassus glaber in exsiccato rugulosus fulvo-flavescens a basi sursum di- 



