190 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [July, 1909. 
upon the damage done to “renin pines by Loranthaceous 
parasites wrote in 1894: ‘‘ Those, too, who have the opportu- 
nity, whether in the hills or in the tan, should investigate the 
common species of Loranthus and Viscum, for it is understood 
that they do considerable damage in some places, and enquiry 
might lead to means of protection.’”! 
Ag Mr. F. Beadon Bryant, now wa pete of 
Forests to’ the Government of India, and at the time Assistant 
Inspector-General, alluded to this subject i in the Indian Forester. : 
Roepe (Cedrus deodara, Blue Pine (Pinus excelsa, 
Wall.), Chir Pine (Pinus oni, Roxb. ), etce.] and oaks in the 
Simla Hill States he wrote : 
‘*T noticed two very Sitcoantitng results is this heavy 
lopping ; first, the destructive effects of paras in general 
more particularly of a species of eae “(probably L. 
vestitus) on the oak in heavily lopped areas. In one forest, over 
killed outright by the parasite, which appears to suck the life 
out of the trees, mainly through the wounds caused by lopping, 
and to fairly smother it. An examination of the trees showed 
can be but a question of a few years, more or less, and the ‘oaks 
in this forest will be exterminated.’ 
n the year 1907 Sir John Hewett, K.C.S.I., Lieutenant- 
athe, been ‘oonhaideva bly extended. 
In none of the above recorded observations, with the excep- 
tion of Mr. Beadon Bryant’s, is any allusion made to the effect 
the growth of the parasitic Loranthus has upon the oaks dilatata 
and incana. 
inspection of we hie dilatata at Naini Tal under- 
taken in May, 1908 (after Sir John commenced his operations), 
has shown that the favo one has obtained such a hold over the 
trees, which are growing in considerable abundance throughout 
the station, that numbers of these are dying either under the 
unaided attacks of the Loranthus or under its attacks combined 
Indian Forester, vol. xx, i177 (1894). 
2 Indian Forester, vol. xxii, 420 (1896). 
