Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 385 
Jap. 297; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 141 and Fl. Austral. ITI. 396; Brandis 
For. Fl. 393 (not of Burm.). V. moniliforme, Wt. & Arn. Prodr. 
380; Wight Ic. t. 1018 and Spic. Neelgh. t. 87; Kurz For. Fl. II. 325 
(not of Bl.). V. Wightianum, Wall. Cat. 6877 (not of Wt. and Arn.). 
KepaH: on Gunong Jerai, Ridley!. Matacca: on Mount Ophir, 
Ridley 3161!—Distris.: India, Ceylon, China, Japan, Australia. 
I have been unable to ascertain to which of his many species of BIFARIA 
the Malay Peninsula form of the old Viscwm japonicum is attributed by van 
Tieghem. His B. japonica is restricted to the Japanese plant first collected by 
Thunberg in 1794: see Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. XLIIT. 173 (1896). 
7. Viscum, L. 
Parasitic shrubs, growing on trees; branches usually di-tri- 
chotomous, sometimes whorled, jointed, the internodes terete angular 
or flattened. Leaves opposite, flat and thick or reduced to small 
scales, coriaceous. Flowers unisexual, small, fasciculate or solitary 
or usually in triads, in the axils of the leaves or at the nodes of the 
branches, rarely terminal; bractssmall; bracteoles 2, free or connate 
ina cup. Perianth-tube ino solid, in 9 adnate to the ovary; lobes 
usually 4, very short, ovate or triangular. Stamens as many as the 
perianth-lobes and adnate to them, dehiscing introrsely by numerous 
pores. Ovary inferior, 1-celled; ovules solitary or paired; stigma 
sessile or subsessile. Fruita succulent berry with soft viscid mesocarp. 
Seed adnate to the pericarp; albumen copious, solid; embryo terete, 
enclosed in the albumen, solitary or 2 to each seed. DistRis.: Tem- 
perate and tropical regions, species about 30. 
Leafy shrubs, perianth-lobes deciduous (Sect. I. 
Proronrxta, Korth.) 
Leaves thin. ovate or lanceolate, often falcate, 
acuminate at apex; involucral bracteoles acu- 
minate, lateral flowers of triads 2, central” .. 1. V. monozewm. 
Leaves thick, obtuse at apex; involucral bracteoles 
obtuse, lateral flowers of triads “7, central ?. 
Upper internodes cylindric, striate; leaves coria- 
ceous, more or less oblong; berry warted .. 2. V. orientale. 
Upper internodes alternately flattened; leaves 
very coriaceous, obovate; berry smooth .. 3. V. Wray?. 
Leafless shrubs, perianth-lobes apparently persistent 
(Sect Il. Asprptxta, Korth.) 
Articles 4—10 mm. broad; flowers comparatively 
large, in many fascicles; berry 5 mm. in diam .. 4. V. dichotomum. 
Articles 2—4 mm. broad; flowers very minute in 
few fascicles; berry about 3 mm. in diam. .. 5. V. articulatum. 
