Loranthus.) LORANTHACEZ. 909 
808. Loranthus Linn. 
Semi-parasitic shrubs, usually on trees, rarely terrestrial ; leaves 
opposite, less often alternate, usually thick and fleshy or cori- 
aceous, mostly penninerved, but nerves, except midrib, obscure. 
lowers sce sella usually coloured, spicate racemose or 
cymose, axillary or on old nodes, rarely terminal ; bracts concave 
limb short, haces or ceeaes or obsolete. Petals 4-6, 
or in a sheath split behind; tube naked or with 5 conniving scales 
at the base. Stamens 4-6, adnate to the petals ; filaments filiform 
or thickened; anthers ovate-oblong or linear, adnate or versatile ; 
cells parallel; dehiscence longitudinal, lateral or introrse. Disk 0 
Ovary inferior, 1-celled ; ovule solitar ry 3 style columnar, filiform 
a ] se or itat 
pericarp ; testa 0; albumen copious fleshy, or 0; embryo usually 
fleshy ; cotyledons 2 or 4, 
*Flowers bracteate but not bracteolate :—(p. 910] 
tBracts scale-like; flowers in spikes, racemes, or short-peduncled fas- 
cicles :—[p. 910 
Corolla of v3! eos petals; anthers continuous with filaments, dis- 
tinetly 2-cell 
Flowers ar n inch long ; petals 4-5; buds straight, clavate, 
angled below ; anthers oblong 
Flowers Pi al in ce strict, stout axillary spikes longer 
than the leaves; petals 5, rarely 4; bud suddenly inflated and 
5-angled at the base ; 6 jointed in the middle, thick below; 
calyx-limb obscurely too pentapetalus 
Flowers rusty-pubescent, ye 2 pairs in short, axillary racemes ; 
petals 4; bud Swollen, 4-angled below the middle ; style slender ; 
passa ligustrinus 
Wers over an inch long; petals 6; buds curved, acute, slender; 
anthers slender, twice as long as filaments ; agin longer than 
the leaves, very stout, curved, sparse-flowered ; s ciel 
ranthus. 
Cor petalous, 4—5-lobed or -partite, usually i above ; 
anther-cells sadlalicas: dowers al sais always mealy or scurfy :— 
Corolla-tube 4-clefi, always split above; calyx hardly eer 
