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stamens and styles 5, exserted, cohering and forming a beak, pers 
sistent in the fruit: ovary and fruit 5-celled. 
Common in woods near Nedawuttem and Sispara on the Neil- 
gherries, 
ORDER LXXIX. LORANTHACEZ. 
‘Shrubs almost parasitical with entire opposite leaves which 
are rarely alternate and sometimes wanting: calyx with a smaller 
calyx or bracts at the base of its tube: limb entire or lobed: 
petals 4~8, distinct or united; zestivation valvular: stamens as 
many as the petals and opposite to them: filaments more or less - 
combined with the petals: anthers versatile or erect or adnate: 
ovary 1-celled, 1-ovuled : style filiform or almost wanting: stigma . 
capitate: fruit fleshy, crowned with the calyx, 1-celled,- 1-seed- 
ed: embryo straight, in the axis of a fleshy albumen. 
GENUS I. VISCUM. 
Moneeela Tetrandria. Sex: Sys: 
Deriv. From Viscus, bird-lime, in allusion to the clammy nature 
of the’ berries. : ; 
Gen. Cuar. Parasitical shrubs growing on dicotyledonous trees: 
branches often jointed: leaves opposite, rarely alternate, often want- 
ing: flowers fascicled or in spikes, dicecious or moncecious: margin 
of the calyx obsolete and entire: petals 4, rarely 3-5, thick, nearly 
triangular, from a broad base, united at the base or distinct: sta- 
mens wanting in the female, in the male without filaments, and with 
the anthers adnate to the petals: stigma almost sessile, obtuse: 
berry umbilicated, mucilaginous inside. 
(1) V. Orrentare. (Wiild.) 
Fdent. W. & A. prod. I. p. 879.—Dec. prod. TV. p. 278. 
Syn. V. Heyneanum, Dec. 7. c.—V. cruciatum, Sieb.—V. ver« 
ticillatum, Roxb. fl. Ind. TI. p. 764. 
Srec. Cuar. Stem and older’branches even: branches verticil+ 
late or opposite or dichotomous from the abortion of the central 
shoot, younger ones furrowed or angled: leaves from narrow-oblong 
to obovate, attenuated at the base, tapering or rounded at the apex, 
flat, 3, (rarely 5)-nerved: peduncles axillary, 3-5-flowered : berry 
purple, somewhat globose, copiously and very minutely dotted, 
Coromandel, fiowering in the hot season. 
