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ness of the leaves, and the smallness of the flowers. I'his variety needs further 

 investigation, as it may after all be only a depauperate state of the species. 



(C) Cy.mulati van Tiegh. 

 (cymulees) van Tiegh., Bull. Soc. bot. Fr., xli., 1894, 507. 

 Inflorescence cymose. Cymes 2 — 7-branched, each branch bearing 3 flowers, 

 the central flower sessile, or all the flowers sessile. 



, 7. LOEANTHUS PBNDULUs Sieb. (Plate xlvi.) 



Spreng. Cur., Poster, 1827, 139; Hook. Ic. PL, t. 880, as L. longif alius ; 

 DC, Coll. Mem. Lor., vi., t. i; DC, Prod., iv., p. 295; G. Don, Gen. Hist., iii., 

 p. 491; Benth., B.Fl., iii., 394; Etting., Uber die Blatts. der Loranth., 1871, Tao. 

 iii.. Fig. 18-80, Lit. 18 (Leaves only); MueUer, Key Vic. PI., 273; Bail. Fl. 

 Q'land., v., 1380 (in part) ; Moore and Betche, Fl. N.S.W., 1893, 228. 



I'he following is the original description: "Ramis teretibus glabris foliis op- 

 positis linear-lanceolatis longissimis coriaceis laevibus, peduneulis umbelliferis, 

 corollis longissimis, Nov. Holl." It is further supplemented by De Candolle 

 thus : Sieb. No. 241, folia 6-8 poll longa, 5 lin. lata, petiolo lO-lin. Corolla 15 lin, 

 longa. Bacca ovata. 



The following is a more complete description from field observations in the 

 Port Jackson District, the type locality: Pendulous shrubs, 2-5 ft. in diameter, 

 with a rather large ball-like union with the host, minutely mealy-ferruginous 

 throughout, especially on the young shoots, but ultimately becoming quite glab- 

 rous with age, though still retaining the rusty appearance. Branches elongated, 

 slender, 3-10 feet long. Leaves opposite, chiefly narrow-lanceolate, falcate ob- 

 tuse, or acute, 2-12 inches long, i to i- inch broad in the middle, thick, nerveless, 

 or usually 3-nerved in the typical form, petiole semi-terete, J to IJ inches long. 

 Inflorescence minutely mescly-f erruginous ; flowers in axillary cymes, the common 

 peduncle usually stout, ^-li in. long, bearing an umbel of 3 to 5 rays, each with 

 a partial cyme of 3 flowers, the central one of each triad sessile, the two lateral 

 ones on short, stout, 3 mm. pedicels, each flower supported by a small coriaceous 

 acute bract. Calyx obconical, slightly contracted at the top, the limb prominent, 

 entire, irregularly denticulate, minutely ciliate. Buds usually slender, 3 cm. long, 

 somewhat angular, the top clavate. Petals 5, spathulate, acute, the inside Lemon 

 Yellow No. 1 (Plate 21, Dauthenay, Rep. de CouL); inside of corolla, together 

 with the filaments and style Crimson Red No. 1 (Plate 114, Rep. de CouL). An- 

 thers adnate, 3-5 mm. long. Style angular, geniculate about 3 mm. below the 

 stigma, and with a small denticulate or pentagonal sheath at its base, somewhat 

 resembling the leaf-sheath of Casuarina torulosa. Stignna very small, usually 

 subcapitate. Fruit ureeolate, rarely exceeding 10 mm. long, 5 mm. broad, of a 

 russet-brown colour, contracted at the top into a short neck; epicarp very thick, 

 coriaceous. Seedp elliptical; endosperm white, embryo gi'een, linear oblong, 

 terete. Hypocotyl pink, thick and verracose; disc rather large, domed. Cotyle- 

 dons narrow-elliptic. Primary leaves linear lanceolate, purple-brown (I cannot 

 say whether the colour of the primary leaves is constant or due only to the 

 season of the year). Embryonic cotyledons remaining in the endosperm after 

 germination takes place. 



The following species have been included under L. pendulus Sieber, by 

 Bentham (B.FL, iii., 394) : L. congener Sieb., L. longifolius Hook., L. aurantiacus 

 A. Cunn., L. Miquelii Lehm. Of these, Hooker's species is the only synonym. 

 Hooker, commenting . on his species says, "assuredly the leaves often more than a 



