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pores rather few. Ovary ovoid, stipitate, truncate; style short, coni- 
cal; stigma capitate. Berry ovoid or subglobose, purplish red, rather 
prominently warted, as large as a pea, sessile or more or less stalked, 
the stalks up to 1—2 mm. long, thick. DC. Prodr. IV. 278; Wt. & 
' Arn. Prodr. 379; Bl. Bijdr. 666 and Fl. Jav. Loranth. tt. 24, 25; 
Benth. Fl. Austral. III. 396; Wall. Cat. 491; Brandis For. Fl. 393 
and Ind. Trees 552; Kurz For. FI. II. 324; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 
224; Cooke Fl. Bomb. II. 552; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. III. 471; Prain 
Beng. Plants 912; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. i. 804; Koord. Exkurs. FI. 
Jav. II. 166. V. verticillatum, Roxb. FI. Ind. III. 764. 
_ Perak: at lower camp, Gunong Batu Pateh, Wray 1074!; 
tea gardens, Ridley!. Panane: at Pulau Jellam, Ridley 2250!. 
Maracoa: at Merliman, Derry (?) 195!. SineGaporEe: Ridley 1827!, 
3777! , 6816!, 10369!. 11392!.—Disrris. India, Burma, Ceylon, 
Java, Borneo (Haviland 3092!), China, New Guinea, Australia. 
Var. ovalifolium, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. i. 805. Leaves larger, up 
to 8 em. long, 5 cm. broad, often paler when dry, the 3 middle ribs 
prominent, the two side ones short and faint ; flowers solitary in the 
involucres and more numerous and in closer fascicles in the leaf-axils; 
stigma shorter and broader. JV. ovalifolium, Wall. Cat. 489; DC. 
Prodr. IV. 278; Kurz For. Fl. II. 325; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 225. 
V. obtusatum, Wall. Cat. 494; DC. l.c. 279. 
Kepau: at Pulau Songsong, Curtis 2599! Prnane: Wallich 
489!; Penang Hill, Ridley 9373! Perak: WScortechini 732!. 
Matacea: Griffith K.D. 2739!, 2740!; Cuming 2341!; at Tanjong 
Kling, Ridley 3162!.—Distris. Burma, Andamans, Siam (Kerr 
818!). 
3. Viscum Wravyi, King M.S. in Herb. Calc. ex Gamble in 
Kew Bull. 47 (1913). <A parasitic shrub with rather stout dicho- 
tomous or opposite branches; branchlets terete, the uppermost with 
the internodes more or less flattened in alternate directions; nodes 
only slightly swollen. Leaves opposite, thickly fleshy-coriaceous, 
light yellowish green when fresh, nearly black when dry; obovate, 
rounded or slightly emarginate at apex, cuneate at base; both sur- 
faces glabrous, slightly shining; margins recurved ; 3—4°5 cm. long, 
1—3 cm. broad; ribs 5, the outer ones pedately inserted, only 
slightly visible on the undersurface; other nerves and reticulation 
obscure; petiole 0. Flowers in axillary, shortly pedunculate, clusters 
of 1—3 supported by 2 connate ovate bracteoles forming a boat- 
shaped involucre, the middle flower ? on a 1 mm. long pedicel, the 
