402 THE LORANTHACEAE OF AUSTRALIA^ iii., 



Supplementary notes to the description. 

 Pendulous plants of medium size with a ball-like union with the host, 

 branches glabrous, and frequently slightly glaucous, slender, attaining 7 feet in 

 length. Leaves glabrous (except the vei-j- young ones which are minutely mealy 

 pubescent) usually broad lanceolate, opposite, or the upper one more distantly 

 alternate than in L. pendulus Sieber, ranging from 7-28 cm. long (about 3-11 

 inches) ; the average lengih is about 5 inches, yellowish-green. Inflorescence 

 eymose; flowers all pedicellate. Buds cylindric, minutely mealy, or nearly gla- 

 brous, faintly angular towards the base, swollen above the calyx limb, yellowish- 

 green, shaded pink on the outside, the inside including the filaments and style a 

 dull purple lake (No. 4, Plate 170, Dauthenay, Rep. de Coul.). Style angnlar, 

 longer than the stamens, geniculate a little below the capitate stigma, often 

 persistent on the ripe fruit. Disc usually prominent, raised around the base of 

 the style and quite free from it, forming a pentagonal toothed tube, the minute 

 teeth are noticeable on the fruit throughout its various stages of development. 

 Fruit amber white, changing to yellowish-green (Plates 12 and 13, Rep. de Coul.), 

 oblong-eylindrical to urceolate, contracted into a very short neck, or sometimes 

 flat-topped, opening apically, or nearly so when ripe. Epicarp thin. Seeds ob- 

 long-cylindrical, contracted at the base; viscin not copious; endosperm white; 

 embryo green, cylindrical, narrower and slightly curved towards the disc, 4 mm. 

 long, veri-ucose or tuberculate ; suctorial disc scarcely thickened, at first quite flat, 

 becoming elongated and somewhat tubular by an outward growth, the hollow 

 cavity secreting a transparent fluid. Embryonic cotyledons not withdrawn from 

 the endosperm. 



The fruits are frequently found to be distorted by insects; some assume the 

 appearance of half-grown Quandangs, Fusanus acmninatiis R.Br., with a cesia- 

 like hue, some become abnormally elongated, while others are pentagonal in 

 shape, or sometimes distinctly ringed. 



The Loranthm fruit-fly Ceratitis loranthi W. W. Frogg., was hatched from 

 fruits of L. Miquelii by Mr. J. J. Fletcher {vide These Proceedings, xxxv., 1910, 

 862-3, under L. pendulus Sieber). 



The flgure attributed to L. pendulus by Ewart (Weeds and Poison Plants 

 and Naturalized Aliens of Victoria) appears to be this species. It has the same 

 general appearance as L. Miquelii Lehra., while the flowers and fruits appear to 

 be all pedicellate. I have not seen a plant of L. pendulus the same colour as 

 L. Miquelii; the former is always rusty looking, whilst L. Miquelii is of a light 

 yellowish-green colour. 



Synonym. — L. aurantiacus A. Cunn. 



I have made a very careful comparison of specimens of L. aurantiacus from 

 the type locality with those of L. Miquelii Lehm., and can come to no other 

 conclusion but that they are eonspeciflc. Lehmann's species, having priority over 

 Cunningham's species by 4 years, must stand. 



Range. — Western Australia: Near Perth, host Eucalyptus calophylla (Dr. J. 

 B. Cleland, No. 432, 4.1907. The mistletoe fruit-fly, already referred to, was 

 hatched from specimens supplied by Dr. Cleland) ; Swan River (Drummond, No. 

 510. This specimen is not quoted by Bentham in the Flora) ; Oldfield, quoted 

 by Bentham under L. pendulus Sieber; York District (Preiss, No. 1617, 3.3.1839; 

 the type) ; Darling and Swan Rivers, on Eucalyptus gomplwcepliala (Diels and 

 Pritzel, Bot. Jahr., xxxv., 176 under L. pendulus Sieber) ; Avon, near Clackline, 

 on Eucalyptus redunea Schau. (Folia lutescenti-viridia ; perianthium coccineum. 



