326 LORANTHACES. [ Viseum. 
the lateral dilatation of the apex of the articles; perianth-lobes 3 
a acute, concave; berries globular, small 
Has.—Rare in the drier hill forests of the Martaban hills, especially on 
oaks and ae = 4,000 to 6,000 ft. elevation.—Fl. March.—l. 
GINALLOA, Korth. 
Flowers monoecious (and? dioecious). Perianth 3-(or 4-) petal- 
led, the petals short and more or less persistent. Anthers in males 
almost sessile, free, 2-celled and oon didymous, opening in 
longitudinal slits or on the inner face along the connective; fi 
eee very short, opposite the petals. Stigma in females sessile or 
early so; ovary smooth or sulcate. Fruit a l-seeded berry.— 
Paraviticel shrubs of the habit of the leaf-bearing Visci, but the 
flowers in longer or shorter spikes, and all the branches and branch- 
lets with a short thickening at the base resembling a spurious 
sheath. 
* fziker very denier, the flowers surrounded is an annular. 
haped involucre. Leaves thin-coriaceous 
Leaves amacate raiiaiNe: penike: 5-nerved . G, Helferi. 
Leaves cuneate, narrow linear, only 3-nerved - G. spathulifolia. 
* Spikes oh — the flowers immersed in » grooves of the 
aS ichladetecintey oblong to obovate-oblong : . G, Andamanica. 
1. G@, Helferi, Kz.—An evergreen, aed parasitical shrub, 
glabrous, with terete dichotomous branches; leaves opposite, 
elongate-cuneate-obovate, very much tapering into a very short 
petiole or rather sessile, rounded or retuse at the apex, 5-nerve 
3-4 in. long or shorter, coriaceous, but the nerves and elnistion 
fairly visible in a dried state ; flowers minute, dioecious, the males 
usually by 3, the females by 3 or solitary in the truncate half- 
cup-shaped ore involucre adnate to the rachis and forming a 
slender, interrupted, glabrous spike in the forks of the branchlets or 
terminal between the 2 uppermost leaves; calyx-limb obsolete 
perianth-segments 3, triangular, acute, in the males _— the 
2-celled, ovate, rather large, sessile anthers ; 3 ovary ov 
Hazs.—Tenasserim. 
a deed state ; i dioecious O, minute, sessile, and ibys or 4 (or © 
more ?) immersed each separately in the thick rachis at its joints and 
