. $14 LORANTHACER. [ Loranthus. 
versatile, the parallel om opening longitudinally. Style filiform 
with a terminal stig Seeds albuminous, the albumen green, z 
—— — or © Ganake: enclosing the embryo i in its tube. " 
Embr , spindle-shaped, the radicle superior. Fruit a 
berry, pores crowned with the calyx-limb.—Parasitical shrubs, 
with opposite rarely alternate leaves. Flowers in axillary or termi- ce 
nal racemes, cymes, or solitary, with or without 2 distinct or united 4 
bractlets close under the calyx ; bract usually present. 
* ant _— —. like, forming either a Fie 4.-6-leaved 
soles ted % ina «ton daa 
Leaves platoons salys 8 eerie hitish, hairy ; 
involucre * lowered and 4- -leaved, the Ieiihahe free and as long 
as the flow . LZ. involucratus, 
+ < praise iaite or small supporting each single flower. 
O Lach flower 3-brae » L béract and 2 bractlets Be 
Sree, or united at the sp 2 
+ Corolla 6-lobed, the tube inflated, short and 
“ aight. - 
wers sessile, i in short spikes 
Corolla greenish white, 5 lin. long, —_ ns base urceolate-inflated . L. globosus. 
As former, but << wpe ta an i . DL, subglobosus. 
Bo SEE, , e ‘short racem 
Corolla eens Pati: the tube sting apeeigty —— in the 
PS eS EEL Sy eke Ie Lhe, 
limb inflate ae ampullaceus. 
= Corolla 5-lobed rved. 
Leaves not —— beneath ; on pei, ad urceolate-inflat- 2 
saath rly an inch lon ng 5 racemes ——- era ties wered, 2a 
. L. Brandisianus. 
clustered on cent 
slightly inflated, 14-12 in. lon ong L. hypoglaucus. 
ves one-coloured and glossy on both surfaces ; corolla 2-3 in. 
long, curved and slightly inflated ; cymes reduced, us —— 
2-flowered, agp ten us L. formosus. 
O O Each flower with a "single bract only or the bract 
‘daisies mes obsolete, 
+ Petals united into a tubular coroll 
X Flo merous, the corolla usually slit 
laterally; berries obconical to club- and 
pear-s fs 
Indument. of inflorescence, flowers, berries and shoots densely to- 
Steed white, scurfy ; corolla 14-2 in. long; berries obco- 
eaves from oblong to te i a et. . L. pulverulentus. 
Indwnent of young shoots, flowers and inflore variable, vel- 
r villous, from rusty-coloured to whitish ; corolla. Bs 1} 
3, berries devant 2-3 og oad leaves from 
mee obl ong = scurrula. 
5- or 6-m rous, the coro! rola at 
— slit ptr in berries 
rounded at the base, usually oval or 
- Shoots, inflorescence, and flowers densely 
villous-tomentose, 
