220 THE LORANTHACEAE OF AQSTEALIA, ii., 



Freestone Creek and Killarney by Allan Cunningham in May, 1827. Since then 

 it has been found in the following localities, which are not far from the spot 

 where Cunningham first found it: — Gladfield (F. M. Bailey, 1890. — This locality 

 is between Allora and Hendon, not far from the New South Wales border and is 

 almost on the Macpherson Range) ; Killarney (Joe Webb, vide Bail., Qland. Fl., 

 he.). 



New South IFaZes: Acacia Creek, on Lyonsia largiflorens F. v. M. (W. 

 Dunn, No. 259) ; Oakey Creek, Macpherson Range, on Tecoma jasminoides Lindl. 

 (W. Dunn, No. 259a) . 



Affinity. — It is closely allied to P. BidwilUi, from which it differs in its 

 sessile and broader leaves, which suggest the same variation between several 

 species of Loranthiis that have sessile cordate leaves and no essential difference 

 in the flowers. This opens up the question as to the relationship existing be- 

 tween the sessile-leaved forms, and the narrow-leaved petiolate forms. In these 

 two species which reproduce annually, they show marked differences in the 

 leaves and are peculiarly constant in these characters which we are apt to treat 

 lightly when they are not supported by floral or carpological characters. If we 

 apply the same line of reasoning to other members of this family, we must also 

 admit their broad-leaved allies as distinct individuals, since by the same natural 

 process, they too are constant in these particular characters. I allude to Loran- 

 tlius pendulus Sieb. var. amplexifolius Benth., L. Qucmdang Lindl. var. amplexi- 

 foliujs Benth., L. longiflorus Desr. var. amjilexifoUiis [L. amplexifoUus Bth., 

 non DC). 



Hosts. — Apocynaceae: Lyonsia largiflorens F. v. M., Bignoniaceae : Tecoma 

 jasminoides Lindl. 



4. Phrygilanthus Bidwillii (Benth.) Eiehl. (Plate xxxii.) 



Eichl., Fl. Brazil, v., 1868, 48, Engl, and Prantl, Pflanzenfam., iii., 179; 

 Benth., B. Fl.. iii., 1866, 390 as Lorantlms Bidwillii; Bail., Qland FL, v., 1378, t. 

 62 as L. Bidwillii Bth. 



Supplementary notes to the description in B. Fl., Hi., 390. 



This is a small growing species, rarely more than 1 ft. long, rather dense, 

 with short jointed brittle branches; invariably parasitic on Gallitris. Union club- 

 like, developing short slender adventitious roots, which throw out supports be- 

 neath their lower surface almost at every inch, causing the host to gradually 

 thicken, as in the case of the main attachment, and form new plants upon them. 

 Flowers yellowish-green, shaded pink in the lower portion, reddish at the top. 

 Buds slender, curved. Petals acute, the lowest exceeding the stamens by about 

 5 mm., the upper ones by about 2J mm. Filaments dark red, compressed and 

 somewhat furrowed, thickened at , the point of attachment. Style bent in bud, 

 exceeding the anthers by 2-3 mm. when the flower expands, green throughout; 

 stigma rather small, reddish, capitate. Fmit broadly pear-shaped to globular, 

 pink or bright red, 5 to 7 mm. long; epicarp very thin; endosperm white, turn- 

 ing green when germination takes place. Cotyledons obtuse, but not seen in a 

 fully developed state. 



This species, as far as my own observations go, is not a gross feeder nor a 

 rapid grower, and it appears to be rather slow in the process of reproduction; 

 whether this is due to its palatable fruits which are freely eaten by birds, or to 

 the low germinating power of the seed remains to be proved. 



