Viscum. | LORANTHACER. _ B25 
Haxs.—Tenasserim. 
* * Leafless shrubs. Perianth-lobes usually persistent. 
5. V. ulatum, Burm.; Brand. For. Fl., 393.—An ever- 
green, parasitical, leafless shrub, all parts glabrous, the branches 
from 1 to 2 ft. long, usually trichotomous and opposite, jointed ; 
articles variable, from linear to linear-oblong, those of the lateral 
ranchings placed at a right angle with one another and decussate, 
but twisted, so as to appear in one plane, from 1 to 2 to 4 in. long, 
at the broader end always slightly narrowed, glabrous, with a 
stronger midrib and (in a dried state) with several (3-9) longitu- 
dinal ribs and appearing more or less sulcate-ribbed; flowers 
minute, solitary, or by 2 or 8 enclosed in the 2 cup-like-connate 
racts, sometimes forming small clusters at the joints; calyx-limb 
none (?) ; perianth-lobes 3 (or 4), concave, triangular-oblong, acute ; 
stigma small ; berries globular, the size of a pepper-kernel, smooth, 
yellowish, 
Var. 1, articulatum proper: articles narrow, only 14 to 2 lin. 
broad, the lateral ribs fewer in number. 
Var. 2, dichotomum (/. dickotomum, Don) : articles broader, 
8-4 lin. broad, with numerous longitudinal nerve-like ribs. 
Hap.—Common in the mixed forests and cultivated lands all over Burma.— 
Fl. Fr. Jan.-March.—I. : 
9: V. moniliforme, WA.—An evergreen, small, stunted, para- 
sitical shrub usually only $a foot high, rarely larger, leafless, all 
parts glabrous; branches jointed, compressed, usually cma beng 
the articles all in one plane (not decussately placed), only 
1. long or thereabouts, obovate-oblong, when full-grown with a 
midrib, but without any lateral ribs, at the rather truncate apex 
dilated into a complanate cup a little expanded at both sides so as 
to receive the flowers; flowers minute, several, few, or solitary in 
