192 



LORANTHACEJE. 



7 mm. longa 4J mm. lata basi involucro persistent! instructa. Semina ellipsoi- 

 dea 3 mm. longa plus minus complanata. 



HAB. Akocho : Bongarisha, leg. S. SASAKI, Mart. 1910. 



Near V. Querci-Morii HAY.; but separable from it by the tetragonal male 

 flowers with equal-sized perianth-lobes. 



Viscum (Aspidixia) diospyrosicolum HAYATA sp. nov. (Fig. 67-68). 

 Parasitica ad 

 ramos Diospy- 

 ros incola 40- 

 50 cm. longa 

 basi subteres a 

 basi dichotome 

 vel trichotome 

 ramosa, inter- 

 nodiis mediis 

 subteretibus vel 

 plus minus com- 

 planatis 4-5 cm. 

 longis medio 1^ 



mm. latis apice plus minus dilatatis 

 3 mm. latis deorsum angustioribus 

 sulcatis glabris, internodiis superiori- 

 bus manifesto complanatis, in sec- 

 tione lentiformibus, 2 cm. longis me- 

 dio l^nim. latis. Flores -9- ad 

 utrurnque latus apicis internodiorum 

 superiorum siti bracteolis minutis 

 triangularibus utroque latere inst- 

 ructi basi involucro suffulti cum 

 involucro 1mm. longi, involucro 

 crustaceo \ mm. longo ad orern 2- 

 lobato crassiusculo sub lente botrvoi- 



Fig. 67, Viscum 

 diospyrosicolum HA- 

 YATA ; a, a female 

 flower on a node ; b, 

 the same, seen from 

 above; c, the same, 

 seen from side, in- 

 volucre taken off; d, 

 the same, perianth- 

 lobes taken off, stig- 

 ma seen. 



deo-muricato margine sub rnicrosco- 



Fig. 68, Viscum diospyrosicolum HAYATA X ^j. 



