dyi THE LORANTHACEAB OP AUSTRALIA, 111., 



Buds eylindrieal or clavate. Flowers 4 — 6-merous. Petals free or very 

 shortly united at the base. Filaments nearly always longer than the adnata 

 anthers. 



Sect. Amyema Engler. 



Engl, et Prantl, Ptlanzenfam., Nachtr., 1897, 127; genus Amyema van Tiegh., 

 Bull. Soc. hot. France, Ixi., 1894, 506. 



Buds eandelabrif orm, cylindrical or elayate, invariably more or less inflated at 

 tliie base. Petals 5 or 6. Filaments usually longer than the anthers, the adnate 

 portion always slightly convex on the inner face of the segment. Anthers firm, 

 oblong, obtuse or acute. Style usually angular and geniculate about 3 mm. be- 

 low the sub-capitate stigma. Fruit pear-shaped, urceolate to globose. Viscin 

 not copious. Embryo claviform or subulate; embryonic cotyledons usually elon- 

 gated, remaining in the endosperm on germination. Primary leaves linear-lanceo- 

 late. Pendulous or divaricate shrubs; union ball-like, without adventitious roots. 

 Leaves usually opposite, flat or terete, 1 — 7-nerved. Inflorescence mostly cymose. 

 Fruit with strange inter-running scleroids. 



§ Euamyema Engler. 



Flowers sessile or pedicellate, standing against or opposite to each other. 

 Inflorescence variously disposed, bifurcate, umbellate, cymose, or capitate. 



(A) Biflorati, n. subser. 



Peduncles once or twice branched, with a pair of pedicellate flowers to each 

 branch. 



Loranthus gibberulus Tate. (Plate xxxix.) 



Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Aust., viii., 1834-5, 71. 



Additional notes to the description. 



Branches mealy or wooUy-tomentose when young, glabrous, and with a few 

 scattered orbicular leuticels when old. Leaves woolly-tomentose for the fli-st year 

 or two, becoming glabrous, except on the inside near the base, opposite, alternate, 

 or in clusters of 3-4 crowding the short branches, mostly straight and acute. In- 

 florescence densely woolly-tomentose, the indumentum white on the calyces, pink- 

 ish on the buds. Flowers pedicellatej in pairs; the common peduncle woolly- 

 tomentose, shorter than the pedicels. Buds robust, straight, cylindrical, clavate at 

 the top, 3 cm. long. Bracts orbicular, almost enveloping the calyces, thick, con- 

 cave, 4 mm. long and nearly as broad. Calyx cupular, densely woolly-tomentose, 

 the limb very conspicuous, or about half the length of the calyx. Petals 4, free, 

 thick, narrow-linear except for the ovate-spathulate, concave apex, pinkish inside. 

 Filaments adnate, for their entire lengfh, sulcate. Anthers adnate, the cells in 4 

 vertical rows, the backs sometimes woolly-tomentose. Style angular, fii-m, the 

 same colour as the inside of the petals, geniculate on a level with the base of the 

 anthers; stigma dark coloured, scarcely enlarged. Disc thick, tetrag-onal, larger 

 than any of the allied species, with the articulation scars of the filaments rather 

 conspicuous upon it. Fruit densely woolly-tomentose, globose, 7 mm. in diameter, 

 but not seen ripe. Cotyledons unknown. 



Bange. — South Australia: William Tableland, West side of Lake Eyre, on 

 Grevillea nematophylla (Malcolm Murray). The typo. 



Northern Territory: Near Hermannsburg, Finke River (G. F. Hill, No. 77; 

 Ewart and Davies, Flora N.T.. 88) ; Camp ii. (G. F. Hill, No. 242a; Ewart and 



