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versus apicem paulatim leviter alatus; limbus 12-14 cm. longus, 4.5-5.5 cm. latus, 

 ovalis V. oblongus, basi inaequaliter rotundatus, paulum decurrens, apice acumi- 

 natus, acumine obtuso; costa subtus valde prominens ; nervi 10-12-jugi, irregulares, 

 subtus vix prominentes. Pedunculi crassi, 1 cm. longi, solitarii, axillares, basi 

 bracteis 2 parvis adpressis instruct! ; flores geminati ad basim eminentia intermedia 

 duriuscula compressaque 1 cm. alta separati; flos unusquisque 3-bracteatus; bractea 

 externa 1 (antica) ovata, apice acuta, crassa, duriuscula; bracteolae intemae 2, 

 laterales, imbricatae, oblongae, intus concavae, apice obtusae, duriusculae, dorso 

 carinatae; calyx bracteis lateralibus duplo brevis, limbo alto ore integerrimo, basi 

 ovario adnatus; corollae tubus ruber, subclavatus, usque 3.5-4 cm. longus, glaber, 

 paulum supra calycem constrictus, tunc gradatim ampliatus, valde curvatus; 

 corollae segmenta 6, angusta, apice acuta, tandem reflexa, 1.5-1.8 cm. longa; 

 stamina 6, filamentis supra medium liberis, ima basi incrassatis, antheris 4.5 mm. 

 longis, terminalibus, angustis, apice subacutis; pollen stellatus; ovarium basi 

 adhaerens, apice liberum, extus 6-co8tatum; stylus subulatus stamina superans 

 stigmate capitato instructus. Fructus ignotus. 



Yunnan: Szemao, alt. 1600 m., on trees, A. Henry (No. 11604; flowers red). 



This new species resembles Elylranthe albida Blume figured in his Flora Javae, 



III. Lorantheae, t. 22, but it differs: 1° in its larger oblong, not oval leaves, 2° in 

 its longer petiole always exceeding 2 cm. in length, 3° in the prominent blade 

 separating the two flowers at the base, which becomes narrower toward the apex, 

 while in Blume's figure it becomes narrower toward the base, 4° in the flowers 

 which are red according to the collector's note and not white, 5° in the calyx which 

 bears below its upper margin a sUght circular excrescence. This plant cannot be 

 confounded with Loranthus leucosiphon Griffith {Notul. IV. 623 [1854]; Icon. PL 

 Asiat. t. 619, 621, 622, 623, [1854]), which has been referred to E. albida by different 

 authors, particularly by Gamble, but which differs markedly in the crest separat- 

 ing the flowers. 



VISCUM, L. 



Viscum album Linnaeus, Spec. 1023 (1753). — De Candolle, Prodr. 



IV. 278 (1830). — Boissier, Fl Orient. IV. 1068 (1879). — Brandis, 

 Forest Fl. Brit. Ind. 392 (1874). — Kurz, Forest Fl. Brit. Burma, II. 

 323 (1877). — Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 407 (1894). 



Western Hupeh: Ichang, alt. 30-150 m., parasitic on Pterocarya 

 stenoptera De Candolle, Dec. 23, 1907 (No. 796; fruits golden 

 yellow); without precise locality, A. Henry (No. 7883). 



A picture of this plant will be found under No. 720 of the collection of Wilson's 

 photographs. 



Viscum articulatum Burman f., Fl. Ind. 311 (1768). — De Candolle, 

 Prodr. IV. 284 (1830). — Hooker f., Fl. Brit. Ind. V. 226 (1886).— 

 Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 407 (1894). 



Viscum moniliforme Blume, Bijdr. 667 (1825); Fl. Jav. III. Loranth. t. 25'' 

 (1851). 



Western Hupeh: Ichang, growing on Dalbergia hupeana Hance, 

 March 1907 (No. 3262); Patung Hsien, alt. 800 m.; on Diospyrus kaki 



