Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 391 
more-flowered, the flowers uniseriate, usually 1 flower only ¢ the 
rest 2 ; bracts ovate acute; peduncle 4—5 mm. long, often secund. 
Perianth-lobes triangular, usually 4. Stamens exceedingly minute, 
filaments as long as the broadly ovate obtuse anthers which open by 
about 5—7 pores. Berry ovoid-oblong, densely floccose-tomentose. 
Benth. Fl. Austral. IiI. 397. Viscum subaureum, F. Muell. in Herb. 
Hook. 
Perak: at Logon, Herb. Mus. Perak (Scortechini ?)!.—Distr1s. 
Australia, New Guinea (H. O. Forbes 779!). 
2. NoToTHIxoS MALAYANUS, Oliv. in Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 1519 
(1886). A parasitic shrub, the young parts, inflorescence and under 
surface of leaves covered with a greyish-tawny tomentum of more or 
less stellate hairs; branchlets terete, the bark with prominent longi. 
tudinal cracks; the nodes flattened. Leaves obovate or suborbicular, 
rounded and slightly apiculate at apex, attenuate at base; upper 
surface dull, lower tomentose; 2—4 cm. long, 1—2°5 em. broad; 3- 
ribbed from the base, the nerves and reticulation not visible; petiole 
0—4 mm. long. Heads usually 5—7-flowered, the flowers uniseriate; 
usually 1—2 flowers only s the rest 9; bracts minute, ovate, acute; 
peduncle 4 mm. long, erect. Perianth-lobes 4, triangular-ovate. 
Stamens very minute; filaments very short; anthers broadly ovate, 
obtuse, opening by a circle of pores near the margins. Berry ovoid- 
oblong, stellate-tomentose. 
PENANG: at Tulloh Babang, Curtis 233!. 
