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LOR W PHA1 l ! 





Ordku CCCII. LORANTHAC1 1 -I 



Lonntheaa, Juss. el Rich. Ann U 

 ■>tt lUtutr. -. (. 119, H 



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Diagnosis. — Ataral l th a 1- 





Shrubby plants, in almost all caa i growing into •• 

 ites. Leaves opposite, or somi tinn 



11 



Sol 



( ":il\ \ ButDi tillli - U ; i 



from within 



surround* d « ill 

 in uuml 



\:il'. 



equal in number i" i 



to them it :u 



■ 

 t" it ; • ovuli 



central : 



pl< , it ili-tin^ui-li.il ill . I : 



sionally di 

 embryo longi r U 



j 

 with ii" 

 nil in tii 

 tin- - 

 cording to Mi I 



I DXXIII. 



l 



g< riiun.it" with 

 by Botai 





Loranths. In some reap cts thej 



known Dot onl} by their parasitical habit, but a 



valvate lobes ol a tubular calyx. Don In- exprw 



established between this Order and Araliads, bj 



Jin/. 1830, ]'. 168), Brown (Flinders, 



cher decides in favour of the relation to > 



Adrien de Jussieu takea*a similar 



gests a relation to Alangiads. Adolphe Bn • 



worts, Chloranths, Sandalworts, and Olacads, in) 



These discordant opinions are caused bj tin 



upon tlii- nature of the floral envi lopes. 



It i-- customary to »-:i 1 1 the floral ei 

 sepals in \ iscum, and of petals in Loranthus, i 

 i.al to them :i cap-like expansion, which \t 

 possible to doubt that the parts of the px i 

 instances, as is proved mon over bj th< - 

 cases. Schleiden, indeed, calls the / flower 

 aist of nothing Imt anthers ; but M. I ' 





• Schleiden baa taken ■ very 

 truly naked ovule : surrounded i ■. 

 unii consisting of a naked i 





Pig. DXXIII.— Loranthus chryn iof»< 



