Loranthus.] CXIV. LOKANTHACE^. 1381 



shortly cup-shaped, truncate. Buds slender, clavate at the tips. Petals free, 



1 to l|in. long. Anthers adnate, from oblong-linear to narrow-linear. — L. 

 convener, Sieb. in DC. Prod, iy, 295, and Mem. Lor. t. 2 (leaves short, central 

 flowers sessile) ; L. longifoUus, Hook. Ic. PI. t. 880 (leaves very long, central 

 flowers sessile) ; L. aurantiacus, A. Cunn. ; Hook, in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 

 101 (flowers all pedicellate) ; L. Miquelii, Lehm. in PI. Preiss. i. 280 (flowers 

 all pedicellate). 



Hab.: Gilbert Eiver, F. v. Mueller ; Wide Bay, BidiHll ; Eookingham Bay and Roekhampton, 

 Dallacliy ; Brisbane Eiver, Moreton Bay, F. v. Mueller and others. 



Var. pari'iflonis. Leaves small and narrow ; flowers small, often 4-merous, the central 

 ones sessile. — L. Melaleucw, Lehm. in PI. Preiss. i. 2bl, Miq. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. iv. 107 ; 

 i. miraculo-sus, Miq. in PI. Preiss. i. 281, and in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. iv. 106. — New England, G. 

 Stuart; {therefore probably on the border line between N.S.AV. and Queensland). 



15. Ii. Quandang (first found on Quandang), Lindl. in Mitch. Thice V..vped. 

 ii. 69 ; Benth. FL Austr. iii. 395. Foliage and inflorescence more or less 

 hoary-tomentose, or rarely glabrous except the calyx. Leaves opposite, from 

 obovate or oblong-euneate and 1 to 2in. long to lanceolate and 3 or 4in. long, 

 thick, veinless or obscurely 8-nerved. Flowers in axillary cymes, the common 

 peduncle bearing an umbel of 2 or 3 rarely 4 rays, each with 3 closely sessile 

 flowers. Calyx-tube tomentose, more coniracted under the limb than in L. 

 pendulus ; limb tomentose or very rarely glabrous. Flowers otherwise of L. 

 penduhis ; petals free, under lin. long. Anthers adnate, oblong-linear. — L. 

 nutans, A. Cunn. ; Hook, in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 158 ; L. cmius, F. v. M. in 

 Hook. Kew Journ. viii. 145, and in Trans. Vict. Inst. 1855, 128 ; Miq. in Ned. 

 Kruidk. Arch. iv. 107. 



Hab.: Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, S. Brown, Henne, Bomman ; Keppel Bay, J?. 

 Brown ; Suttor Desert, Islands of Howiek's Group, and Moreton Bay, F. v. Blueller ; Belyando 

 River and Fitzroy Downs, Mitchell. 



16. Ii. grandibracteus (leafy-bracts large), F. r. B[. Ilep. Burdek. E.vped. 

 14 ; Benth. FL Austr. iii. 395. Glabrous. Leaves opposite, from oblong- 

 euneate to linear-lanceolate, obtuse, narrowed into a petiole, 2 to 4in. long 

 or more when narrow, thick, veinless or obscurely 3-nerved. Peduncles at the 

 forks of the branches, each about lin. long, very much flattened and dilated at 

 the end into a truncate receptacle, bearing 4 to 6 closely sessile flowers between 



2 broadly ovate or ovate-lanceolate obtuse floral leaves or leafy bracts, 1 to l^-in. 

 long, and obscurely several-nerved. Bracts under each flower minute or none. 

 Calyx nearly 2 lines long, with a very short denticulate-ciliate limb. Petals free, 

 nearly lin. long ; anthers adnate, linear. 



Hab.: Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown; Burpengary,Dr. Joseph Bancroft; 

 Dianiantina, Dr. T. L. Bancroft; Sandy Cape, B. Brown ; Suttor Eiver, Bowman. 



2. VISCUM, Linn. 



(Referring to the sticky berries.) 



Flowers unisexual. Calyx-border inconspicuous, or rarely forming a scarcely 

 prominent line. Petals 3 to 5, very short, having the appearance of a simple 

 perianth. Anthers sessile on the petals, short and broad, opening inwards in 

 several pores in transverse rows. Stigma sessile. Fruit a one-seeded berry.— 

 Parasitical glabrous shrubs. Branches opposite or dichotornous. Leaves opposite 

 or none. Flowers very small, green or yellowish,' monoecious and clustered at 

 the nodes in all the Australian species, dioecious and in the forks of the branches 

 in the common European one. 



The genus is spread over Asia, Africa, and temperate Europe. The three Australian species 

 are all Asiatic also. They are sometimes found growing upon species of Loranthus, as well as 

 upon the trees that feed them. 



