208 THE LORANTHACEAE OF AUSTRALIA^ ii., 



Leaves large. 



1- Leaves narrow to broad lanceolate, often triplinerved, 5-16 cm. long. Pedicels 



and bracts glabrous 1 . p, eucaly piif alius. 



1°. Leaves obovate to elliptical, penninerved. Pedicels and bracts minutely- 

 pubescent 2. P. celastroides. 



Sect. FuRCiLLA Engler. 



Engler and Prantl, I.e.; genus Furcilla, van Tiegh., I.e., pp. 85, 166. 

 Inflorescence furcate; the common peduncle bearing 2 pedicellate flowers. 



Leaves small 



1. Leaves cordate, very thin, almost sessile, 1-2 cm. long. ..3. P. myrtifolia. 



1°. Leaves linear, petiolate, 12-24 mm. long 4. P. Bidwillii. 



1. Phrygilanthus eucaltptifoliu.s (Sieb.) Engler. (Plate xxix.). 



F. celastroides (Sieb.) Eichl. var. leucalyptifolius Engler (imp.), Naehtr., 

 iii., 1897, 134; L. ,euealyptifolius, Sieb. in Eoem. et Schult., Syst. Veg., vii., 1829,163, 

 non H.B. et K. ; G. Don, Gen. Hist. PL, iii., 1834, 431 ; Miq., Ned. Krudk. Arch., iv., 

 1856, 105; A. Gray, Bot. U.S. Exp. Exped., i., 1854, 741; E. Muell., PL Vic, t. 30 

 (fig. on right-hand side of plate) ; Ettingsh., Uber die Blatts. der Lor., Tab. xiii., 

 fig. 11 to 13, Tab. xiv., fig. 2; Muell., Key Vic. PL, part ii. (lower figure( of t. 

 66); Muell., Kept. Burdekin Exped., 13; Kunth., Bl. Biol., iii., i., 255, fig. 45; 

 Engler and Prantl, Pfiaazenfam.,' iii., 179 (as P. eelastroides (Sieb.) Eichl.); 

 Ewart, Weed? Poi. PI. Vic, 28 (Fig. on right hand side of plate). 



I have not seen Sieber's original description but presume that of De Can- 

 dolle is a reproduction, which, translated by Don, is as follows: "Glabrous; 

 branches terete, dichotomous; leaves opposite, petiolate, lanceolate-linear, aeutish, 

 thick-coriaceous, almost veinless. L. eucalyptif alius Sieb. Fl. Nov. Holl. No. 

 242, but not of Kunth. Leaves 3-4 inches long and 6-7 lines broad. Petioles 6 

 lines long. Flowers and fruit unknown." 



Asa Gray (Bot. Amer. Exp. Exped., I.e.) refers to this species in the follow- 

 ing words : "Of this species as of L. eucalyptoides neither the flowers nor the 

 fruits were knowii. They occur in our specimens, and are almost exactly like 

 those of L. celastroides. Moreover some of the leaves, instead of being elon- 

 gated-lanceolate and somewhat falcate, are elongated oblong, very obtuse and 

 less than 2 inches in length; arising the question whether it may not be an 

 extraordinaj-y form of the foregoing species, L. celastroides." 



I, however, maintain it is a valid species and give the following evidence 

 in support of that view. The original description is very imperfect, and I 

 therefore proceed to describe it more fully: Strictly glabrous plants (even the 

 inflorescence and young parts) ; union supported by numerous adventitious 

 roots, frequently exceeding the branches by several feet; branches pendulous, 

 smooth, terete except for a slight compression at the nodes of the young branches ; 

 lenticular, with linear, transverse, often red-brown lenticles, 1-10 feet long, some- 

 times forming dense masses, but as a rule hang in graceful showers (depauperate 

 plants with short, matted, semi-erect branches) ; internodes 2-10 cm. long. Leaves 

 opposite, thick, coriaceous, 5-20 cm. long, 1-3 cm. broad, somewhat shining when 

 green, dull when dry, usually broad linear to narrow lanceolate, acuminate or 

 falcate, occasionally long-spathulate, tapering at the base into a terete curved 



