d9» THE LORANTHACEAE OF AUSTRALIA, 111., 



also the style and filaments, the former with a minute tuft of hairs inside at the 

 apex) ; Fraser Island (Hon. Mrs. Lovell, No. 869, Queensland Herbarium) ; Glass 

 House Mountain, on Eucmlyptus trachyphloia (F. M. Bailey, No. 870, May, 3910, 

 Queensland Herbarium, kindly lent by Mr. C. 1'. White, as also were the four 

 preceding specimens). All the Queensland specimens are typical. 



New Soiah Wales: Casino, on Eucalyptus maculosa (L. G. Irby) ; Narrabri, 

 on Angophora intermedia and Eucalyptus tessellaris (W. Bauerlen, No. 2841. In- 

 florescence densely ferruginous-tomentose, the common peduncle J to 1 inch long, 

 bearing 2-4 branches, each with two pedicellate flowers) ; Gunnedah (W. Mac- 

 Donald). 



Affinity. — This species has masqueraded under L. pendulus Sieb., L. bifur- 

 catus Benth. and L. sanguineus F.v.M. 



Its nearest affinity is L. hifurcatus Benth., from which it can be distin- 

 guished by the relatively larger and more robust buds, densely ferruginous- 

 tomentose inflorescence, larger calyx with its prominent limb, and in the larger 

 orbicular bracts. 



It is very much after the habit and general appearance of L. pendulus Sieb., 

 but the whole plant is coarser and the flowers are exceedingly ferruginous-tomen- 

 tose, and stouter than those of L. pendulus Sieb. and, like it, grows extensively 

 on Eucalyptus. The filaments also are more or less hirsute on the adnate portion. 



Hosts. — Myrtaceae : Angophora intermedia DC, Eucalyptus clavigera A. 

 Cunn., E. maculata Hook., E. trachyphloia F.v.M., E. tessellaris F.v.M. 



Var. LiNEARiroLiA, n.var. (Plate xli., fig. B.) 



Foliis liiiearibus subflexuosis, 6-17 cm. longis, 5-8 mm. latis; alabastris arete 

 glabris, 25-28 mm. longis. 



Leaves long and narrow, somewhat flexuose, 6-17 em. long, 5-8 mm. broad; 

 buds nearly glabrous, 25-28 mm. long. 



Eidsvold, Queensland (Dr. T. L. Bancroft, No. 1187, Nov., 1920). 



(B) TJmbellulati van Tiegh. 



(Ombellulees) in Bull. Soe. bot. France, xli., 1894, 507. — Pilostigma, .vslji 

 Tiegh.. ibid., p. 483. — Sect. Pilostigma, Engl, in Engler et Frantl, Pflanzenfam., 

 Naehtr.. 1897, 128. 



Inflorescence in simple or compound umbels. 



4. IjOr.anthx's SANGUINEUS F.V.M. (Plate xlii.) 



Fragni., i., 1859, 177. 



Supplementary notes to the description. 



Branches quite glabrous, with a few scattered lenticles. Leaves thick, glau- 

 cous, opposite or subopposite, broad-lanceolate, oblong to falcate, 5-15 em. long, 

 tapering into a terete petiole 1-2 em. in length, nerves 3-5, slightly raised be- 

 neath, depressed or grooved above. Flowers glabrous, axillary; the common 

 peduncle stout. 1-2J cm. long, bearing an umbel of 3-5 pedicellate flowers; the 

 pedicels 4-7 mm. long. Bracts glabrous, spreading, narrow, navicular, acute or 

 acuminate, 2-3 mm. long. Calyx cylindrical-obconical, 7 mm. long, the limb 

 truncate. Buds slender, reddish pink, 2-2^ mm. long, clavate and angular at the 

 apex, and of a greater diameter than the enlarged base. Petals 6, free, very 

 acute, thick, concave or flat, longer than the free portion of the filaments and 

 anthere. Filaments compressed, narrow, 5-7 mm. long. Anthers adnate, slender, 

 curved, about the same length as the free portion of the filaments, or sometimes 

 longer. Style slender, angular, curved in bud, crowned by a large, dark-coloured, 



