4 THE LORANTHACEAB OP AUSTRALIA, 1., 



In 1860-61 Mueller (Fragmenta, ii., 130) described Nuytsia ligu>strina A. 

 €unn. (Gaiadendron ligustrina A. Cunn. EichL). Perhaps the most important 

 revision of the Australian Loranthaceae is "Notes on the Loranthaceae, etc.," by 

 Daniel Oliver (Journ. Linn. Soc., vii., 1864, 90). which afterwards formed the 

 basis of Bentham's classification of the Family in his Flora Australiensis, iii., 

 1866, 386. Oliver did not deal exclusively with the Australian genera, but with 

 a classification of the family generally, incidentally embracing the Australian 

 members of the family. His most notable contribution affecting the Australian 

 section is the segregation of Notothixos from Viscum. 



In 1864-5 Mueller (Plants indigenous to the colony of Victoria, t. 30) 

 fisuredi. celastroides Sieber and L. eucalyptoides DC. {L. eucalyptifolius Sieber). 

 With the advent of Bentham's Flora Australiensis, Vol. iii., 1866, appeared the 

 first sequential classification of the Australian Loranthaoeae, which comprised 

 five genera and twenty-seven species, namely Nuytsia (1 species), Athinsonia (1) 

 Loranthus (19), Viscum (3), and Notothixos (3). Since then various Australian 

 botanists, when dealing with the family, very largely followed Bentham's classi- 

 fication. Eichler (Martius' Flora Brazil, 1868, p. 21) included Nuytsia, Gaia- 

 dendron and Phrygilanthus in his classification of the Loranthaceae, which has 

 since been accepted by Engler. In 1880, Hooker (leones Plantarum, p. 13, Plate 

 1319) described Loranthus Atkinsoniae {Atkinsonia ligustrina F. v. M.). 



In their classification of the Loranthaceae (Genera Plantarum, 1880) Bent- 

 ham and Hooker partly accepted Eiehler's basis of classification pertaining to 

 ■Gaiadendron and Phrygilanthus winch were noted by them as distinct sections 

 of Loranthus. Bentham (Hooker's Icones, 1880-82, p. 13, Plate 1319) described 

 .and fig-ured Loranthus Atkinsoniae (Gaiadendron ligustrina). 



F. M. Bailey (Synop.. Queensland FL, 1883, p. 449) briefly redescribed the 

 species recorded for that State. In the same year. Professor Tate and Baron 

 von Mueller (Trans. Roy. Soc. S.A., vi., 109) described L. Murrayi. Professor 

 Tate (Trans. Roy. Soc. S.A., viii., 1885, 71) added L. gibberulus to the list of 

 species. 



Mueller (Key to the System of Victorian Plants, ii., 1885, plate 66) figured 

 L. celastroides Sieb. and L. eucalyptifolius Sieb. The upper figure on the plate 

 is the former and the lower figure is that of the latter. 



In 1889 Engler and Prantl (Pflanzenfamilien, iii., 177) followed Eiehler's 

 ■classification and recognized Gaiadendron G. Don, and Phrygilanthus Eichler; 

 they also recognized Bentham and Hooker's decisions in regard to Loranthus, 

 Notothixos and Viscum. Moore and Betche (Handbook of the Flora of New 

 South Wales, 1893, pp. 226-8) briefly described the eastern species as defined by 

 Bentham (B. FL, iii.). The following year R. T. Baker (These Proceedings, 

 (2), ix., 1894, 158) illustrated the genus Notothixos, and drew attention to what 

 appeared to him intermediate forms of N. subaureus. 



In 1894-5 Van Tieghem (Bulletin de la Soeiete Botanique de Prance, vol. 

 xlii.) published a new classification which included all the Australian genera and 

 species, and in addition, the names of eight species were published, but apparent- 

 ly without description. The author appears to have used the names only in 

 connection with his classification, which is most regrettable as no doubt some of 

 them formed the basis of the new genera and sections he established. 



H. P. C. Ashworth (Victorian Naturalist, 12, 1895, p. 51) contributed a 

 most mteresting article on the dispersal of the mistletoe, claiming that the Swal- 

 low Dicaeum is the exclusive agent in Victoria in the dispersal of the mistletoe. 

 F. Turner (These Proceedings, (2), ix., 1895, 559) recorded 27 species of 



