744 PHANEROGAMIA. 



veiny. Fertile spikes solitary or in threes in the axils, 1 \ to 2 inches 

 long when fully developed, of 3 or 4 elongated and many-flowered 

 joints; the sheaths truncately two-lobed. Female flowers sunk in 

 excavations of the rhachis. Perianth three-lobed. Young fruit glo- 

 bular. 



4. VI SCUM, Tourn. 

 1. YlSCUM articulatum, Burm. 



Viscum articulatum, Burm. Fl. Ind. p. 311 ; DC. Prodr. 4, p. 284. 

 V. compressum, Poir. Diet. Suppl. 2, p. 861; Decaisne, Herb. Timor, p. 87; Blume, 

 Fl. Jav. Loranth. t. 26. 



Hab. Feejee Islands ; Ovolau, Vanua-levu, %c. : parasitic on Ino- 

 carpus. Also, a remarkably condensed form, in the mountains of 

 Muthuata. 



2. Viscum moniliforme, Blume. 



Viscum moniliforme, Blume, Bijdr. p. 667, & Fl. Jav. 1. c. t. 25; DC. 1. c. ; Cham. 



& Schlecht. in Linnaea, 3, p. 202 ; Wight, Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 1018, 1019. 

 V. opuntioides, Forst. Prodr. Fl. Ins. Austr. p. 70, non Linn. 

 V. platycaulon, Bertero, ined. 



Hab. Tahiti, Society Islands (mostly with narrow articulations). 

 Sandwich Islands : on Acacia Koa, and other trees : — the articulations 

 varying in different specimens from a line and a half to an inch in 

 breadth ! 



No male flowers were collected; but those of V. articulatum are 

 figured by Blume (under the name of V. compressum, Poir.) with 

 adnate and multiporose anthers. The form of the articulations is 

 exceedingly various in different specimens ; in some states they seem 

 to be almost terete : others appear to pass into the preceding species. 

 Their elucidation requires better materials than the present collection 

 affords. 



