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182. Loranthiis ferruginiflorus (W.V.F.) n. sp. 



Branches long and pendulous ; the branchlets terete, glabrous 

 or closely ferruginous-tomentose : leaves glabrous, oppo- 

 site, lanceolate, obtuse, tapering into the petioles, rather 

 firm and obscurely 3-5 nerved ; flowers on axillary pedu- 

 nicles, each peduncle once-forked, each branch bearing 

 two sessile or almost sessile flowers, the inflorescence and 

 perianths closely ferruginous-tomentose ; bracts orbicular, 

 almost entirely enveloping the calyces ; calyx-limb trun- 

 cate or slightly repand ; buds clavate at the tips and 

 dilated at the base to a greater diameter than the calyx ; 

 corolla divided to the base, or almost so, into 5-segments ; 

 anthers oblong-linear, adnate ; style angular, slender, the 

 stigma not large ; fruit globose, 3-4 lines diameter, rusty- 

 red. 



Mt. Rason, Broome, Sunday Is'and, Grant Range (W.V.F.) 

 Leaves 4r-8in. long, the petioles lin. or less. Peduncles 1-in., 

 the branches somewhat shorter. Corolla red, the seg- 

 ments aboLit lin. long, Fruit 3-4 lines diameter. 

 Parasitic on Eucalyptus sp. and E. clavigera (A. Cunn.) 

 Affinity, L. pendulus Sieber and L. bifurcatus Benth. 



183. L. signatus F. v. M. 



Lennard, Isdell, Charnley, and Calder Rivers ; Dillon's Springs, 



Sunday Island (W.V.F.). 

 Flowers greenish-red. 



184. L. biangulatus (W.V.F.) n. sp. 



Pendulous, quite glabrous and somewhat glaucous, the inter- 

 nodes acutely two-angled or narrowly winged, widened 

 upwards. Leaves opposite or subopposite, narrow to 

 broad-lanceolate, obtuse, tapering to the bases, mostly 

 vertical, the veins numerous, very oblique and reticulate 

 between ; inflorescence an axillary rarely terminal dis- 

 tinctly pedunculate raceme of usually five branches, each 

 branch with three terminal closely sessile flowers ; buds 

 slender, bract as large as the adnato portion of the calyx ; 

 limb of the calyx rather broad, membranous, obscurely 

 toothed, and half as long as the tubes ; corolla segments 

 usually six, very narrow ; anthers linear, adnate, much 

 longer than the perianth segments ; style slender, the 

 stigma not broad ; fruit ovoid, brownish. 



Base of Mt. Broome ; Sprigg, Isdell, and Calder Rivers (W.V.F.). 



Leaves 4in. long or less. Corolla -segments fin. long, pale 

 yellow to red in the lower half, green in the upper portion. 

 Anthers green or greenish-yellow. Fruit above four 

 lines long. 



