324 LORANTHACER. [ Viseum. 
about 4 lin. long ; stigma capitate, almost sessile; male flowers not 
seen ; berries spheroid-elliptical, the size of a pea, smooth, yellowish. 
Var. 1, album proper: inflorescence more robust, sessile or 
nearly so; perianth-lobes 4; involucre larger and bro 
Var. 2, karensium: inflorescence shorter or longer peduncled ; 
perianth-lobes 3; involucre smaller and narrower. 
Has.—Var. 2: not unfrequent in the drier hill forests of the Martaban 
hills, at 5,000 to 6,000 ft. elevation —Fl. Fr. March.—l. 
V. orientale, Willd.; Brand. For. Fl., 393.—An evergreen, 
te 
ceous, glabrous; flowers minute, by 3 to 5 sessile within the cup- 
shaped involucre formed of 2 small oblong-ovate acute bracts, 
according to Bentham the central one female, scarcely a line long, 
the 2 lateral ones males and considerably smaller; peduncles short, 
glabrous, solitary or usually by 8 or 2 in the axils of the leaves, 
flower-bearing at the end, and often jointed at the middle an 
bearing 2 other less connate bracts; calyx-limb prominently ring- 
like in the female buds; perianth-lobes 4, or rarely 3, triangular, 
each ing a sessile anther; berries globular, the size of a pea, 
smooth. 
Has.—Chittagong. 
3. V. monoicum, Roxb. ; Brand. For. Fl., 393.—An evergreen, 
glabrous, parasitical shrub with numerous dichotomous or opposite 
i ied state obsoletely suleate) branches ; leaves oppo- 
site, oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate and usually somewhat falcate, 
tapering into a very short petiole or almost sessile, 5-nerved, 
sessile wart; berries oblong, the size of a pea, truncate, smooth, 
yellowish, 
Has.—Martaban and Tenasserim, apparently rare.——Fl. Apr: 
