384 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
ovate or ovate-oblong, somewhat falcate, obtusely acute at apex, 
unequally rounded or attenuate at base; 5—8 cm. long, 2—5 cm. 
broad; ribs 3, faint, other nerves and reticulation invisible ; petiole 
stout, up to 7 mm. long, gradually broadening to the base of the 
blade. Spzkes terminal, 5 cm. long or more; bracts joined in a cup 
embracing the rhachis. Flowers: 3 not known, 2 with 3 minute 
perianth-lobes surmounting the oblong perianth-tube enclosing the 
fruit. 
PERAK: ? Scortechini! . 
Only one sheet of this interesting plant is available and the material is 
veryscanty. The branchlets and leaves resemble those of G. stamica, but that 
species has 5 nerves to the leaves; it is close enough, however, to be considered 
a 3-nerved variety and when more material is available it may prove to be a 
distinct species. 
6. KorTHALSELLA, van Tiegh. 
Leafless parasitic shrubs, the branches jointed, furnished with 
bracteate scales at the joints, the joints all in the same plane. 
Flowers in the axils of the scales, moneecious, surrounded by tufts of 
hair, # and @ with 3 perianth-lobes which are persistent after 
flowering in 9. Anthers 3, 2-celled, cells opening by longitudinal 
slits introrsely but the anthers being connected at their margins the 
pollen issues by a central aperture. Ovary obovoid, placenta central, 
embryo basal, stigma small. Fruit an obovoid berry, the seed 
albuminous.—Disrris. India and Malaya, species according to van 
Tieghem, 61 (Bifaria); according to Engler much fewer. 
1, KorrHaLseLLA gaPonica, Engl. in Engl, & Prantl Naturl. 
Pflanzenfam. Nachtr. 138 (1897). A small tufted leafless parasitic 
shrub, yellow or brown when dry, reaching scarcely 15 cm. in 
height ; branches flattened, contracted at the nodes, the internodes 
variable in length and breadth reaching 2—5 cm. in length and 5 
mm. in breadth, obovate in shape and usually strongly keeled, not 
twisted but allin one plane. Flowers very minute, in dense clusters 
fascicled in cup-shaped bracts at the tips of the internodes and sur- 
rounded at base by short erect hairs, ¢ very few; perianth lobes 3, 
triangular, acute, concave, persistentin 29. Berryellipsoid or obovoid, 
2—5 mm. long, fleshy. Viscum japonicum, Thunb. in Trans. Linn. 
Soc. IT. 329 (1794); DC. Prodr. IV. 283; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 226; 
Trimen FI. Ceyl. III. 472: Collett Fl. Siml. 440; Brandis Ind. Trees 
552. V. opuntia, Thunb. Fl. Jap. 64. V. articulatum, Miq. Prol. Fl. 
