merous, dichotomous, divaricating much, 
te, stiff, glabrous; branchlets com- 
Thorns lets at the forkings 
of the oye and smaller branches; those 
on the ier are once, or sometimes twice 
forked, on the latter usually simple, and 
lly wanting: all are very sharp, 
ibrous, shining, marked with the nerves 
P las, about an inch long, glabrous, each 
bearing three, four, or more flowers, on 
simple pedicels or forked partial peduncles; 
of the corolla, and contained 
anthers linear, acuminated, two- 
I vules 
lr in each cell, peltate. Style single, 
» thickened at the a tigma 
hi x. 
dilated « at the base, bifid; divisions linear, 
ciliated at the apex. Fruit a glabrous oval 
berry, about the size, when ripe, of a small 
m, two-celled; the dissepiment fleshy, 
E. thick i in the middle, and bearing the pla- 
ent. Seeds from one to four in each 
ll oval, compressed, peltate, concave on 
inside, at the middle of which they are 
hed to the partition or dissepiment, 
at the edges, destitute of coma. ince 
in. men copious, somewhat 
- Radicle superior, eg al. Co- 
"dons roundish, foliace 
4 oe and thickets, nsaelly i in good 
It makes excellent fences. It is fre- 
an the northern Circars, where the 
O 
a & good substitute. It also. oc- 
ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY. 
curs in Tanjore, but is less frequent than 
in the alpine districts. 
Tas. XII. Fig. I. Pistil, the Calyx laid open. 
2. Corolla laid open. 3. Section of the Fruit. 4, 
Ditto of Seed.—More or less ified 
LORANTHUS CUNEATUS. 
Tar. XIII. 
Parasiticus glaber, ramis teretibus, foliis 
alternis obovato-cuneatis obtusis in pe- 
tiolum angustatis, pedunculis axillaribus 
brevissimis vel sepius nullis 4-floris, 
bractea cordato-ovata subovario, calycis 
ubo glabriusculo dentibus 5-ciliatis, 
corolla cylindracea breviter 5-loba, basin 
versus subincrassata, hinc longitudina- 
liter fissa, lobis linearibus unilateralibus 
reflexis, filamentis 5 ad apicem fere tubi | 
corolla adnatis, antheris lineari-oblongis 
erectis, stylo filiformi, bacca oblonga. i 
Loranthus cuneatus. Heyne, in Roth, 
Nov. Sp. p. 193. (non Wall, nec De 
Cand.) 3 
Loranthus montanus. 
Wight, in Wall.! 
De Cand. Prod. 
nn. 6. 
Loranthus lobelizflorus. 
Teini goodeniæflorus. De Cand.? 
Prod. 4. p. 306. 
Parasitic. Stem and branches terete; 
glabrous, of a greyish colour, rougl 
from minute elevated points. ves al- 
ternate, obovate, obtuse or - benssionally 
very slightly retuse, cuneate at the base, 
aad there tapering into a short petiole, 
glabrous, even the very youngest ones (and 
hence my doubts about the second syno- 
nyme quoted from De Candolle), quite 
entire, coriaceous ; when growing, veiny ; 
when dried the veins are sunk in the 
leaf, and nearly imperceptible. Ponia 
generally wanting, and then from one to 
three pedicels issue from the axils, each 
one-flowered; sometimes the peduncles, 
although very short, may be observed bear- 
ing two, three, or even four, and very rarely 
five flowers. Bractea solitary, roundish- 
cordate, ovate, Concave, obtuse or acute, 
n closely embracing the base of the 
Ca in dde campanulate, generally 
niu glabrous, but occasionally more or - 
