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On the branches of Eucalypti, Bursaria, Ficus, arborescent Grevillese and other trees. 
Magnetical Island, Fitzalan ; around the Gulf of Carpentaria and in many parts of Arnhem’s 
Land, F. M., Warwick, Beckler ; Moreton Bay, Hill; New England near Tenterfield, Stuart. 
Branches pendulous, cylindrical. Leaves lg-3 inches long, 4-16 rarely only 2 lines 
broad, tapering into a long or short petiole, rarely subsessile. Pedicels 1-4 rarely 6 lines long, 
clothed, as well as the bracteoles and calyces, with a brown or grey velvet. Calyx 2-3 lines long, 
with a conspicuous limb. Bracteole about 1 line long, sometimes acute. Corolla 1-1 f inch 
long, with an orange-colored tube and a red limb, not distinctly gibbous, although curved and 
slightly dilated below the limb ; one of the lobes usually deeper separated. Anthers yellow, 
1-3 lines long. Style thinly angular-filiform, longer than the corolla. Berry 3-4 lines long. 
In its affinity this species approaches closely to L. longiflorus, according to plate 302 of 
Wight’s leones Plant. Ind. Orient, and a specimen collected in Khasia by Drs. Hookers and 
Thomson ; the leaves we find smaller, the flowers often shorter, with a limb before expansion 
gradually tapering to the apex, and thereby subulate-conical, rarely turgid, and the stamens are 
smooth. Still since our species is able to assume singular abnormal forms, it is quite possible 
that it merely constitutes a less luxuriant form of the L. longiflorus. Some relation it shows also 
to L. Neilgherrensis. 
The Australian Loranthaceas are by no means very numerous, although it may be pre- 
sumed that we are not yet acquainted with all the species of North-East Australia. Besides 
the foregoing one our Australian herbarium contains the following plants of the order : — 
Viscum angulatum (Heyne, in Cand. Prodr. iv. 283), known from Java and the mainland 
of India, and observed in Australia from the Gilbert River to Moreton Bay. V. attenuatum, 
according to a Khasia specimen collected and communicated by Dr. J. Hooker, seems not 
distinct. In habit it agrees also fully with V. ramosissimum. The Australian plant shows the 
perianth to be yellow inward, and to consist of three or four segments. The anthers open with 
numerous pores. The berries are purplish- white, globose, of the size of a small pea. The 
embryo is slender and placed transversely in the green albumen, not stretching fully across. 
Viscum articulatum (Burmann, Flora Indica, 311) has been discovered at Warwick and 
on the Richmond River by Dr. Beckler, and been identified with the Indian conspecific plant by 
Dr. Jos. Hooker. It differs, indeed, in no particular from V. moniliforme, as illustrated in the 
Spicilegium Neilgherrense, t. 87, which has been combined by Miquel (FI. Ind. Batav. i. 806) 
with V. articulatum. 
Viscum incanum (Hook. Icon. 73, F. M. Fragm. Phytogr. Austr. ii. 109) occurs from 
Twofold Bay to the tropic of Capricorn. The habit is that of V. orbiculatum. 
Nuytsia jloribunda (R. Br. in Journ. Roy. Geograph. Society, i. 17). Restricted to 
S. W. Australia, extending northward however, according to Mr. A. Oldfield’s observations, as 
far as the Murchison River. 
Nuytsia ligustrina (All. Cunn. in Lindl. Veg. Kingd. ed. iii. 791) occurs in the Blue 
Mountains, and is said to be found also on the north-eastern tributaries of the Darling. 
Loranthus sanguineas (F. M. Fragm. Phytogr. Austr. i. 177). A species from Arnhem’s 
Land, already well marked by its blood-red petals and large black stigma. Amongst Australian 
species it ranks nearest to the following one. The limb of the unexpanded calyx exceeds in its 
diameter that at the tube. 
Loranthus yendul is (Sieber in Spreng. Cur. Post. 139) ranges over the whole of Aus- 
tralia, forming in different climatic zones, and whilst deriving nutriment from trees of many 
different orders, most singular variations. The examination of a large series of specimens in 
our collections leads to the conclusion that L. longifolius Ilook ., L. nutans A . Cunn ., L. Cun- 
ninghami As. Gr ., L. canus F . M ., L. Quandang Lindl., L. congener Sieb., L. aurantiacus A. 
Cunn., L. miraculusos Miq., L. Miquelii Lehm., and L. Melaleuca Lehm. are to be regarded 
as varieties of this plant. An extreme form seems the L. Gaudichaudii, varying with 4 and 5 
petals, having the leaves and flowers reduced to remarkable smallness, and the anthers by 
diminution of length altered to an ovate form. When in other varieties, especially in L. canus, 
the pedicels become obliterated, the development of the bracteoles to a much greater size may 
be occasionally observed. The petals are sometimes perfectly green. It seems also that a 
plant with cordate clasping leaves, found in Arnhem’s Land chiefly on Carissa lanceolata, is an 
extreme form of L. pendulus. Varieties passing from the cordate to the ovate and spathulate 
forms of leaves were noticed on the Victoria River and in Lord Howick’s Group. 
Loranthus celastroides (Sieber, in Schult. Syst. vii. 163; Asa Gray, Unit. Stat. Explor. 
Exped. Botany, 740, t. 100) has not so wide a range as the foregoing, being restricted to 
Australia Felix and eastern extratropical and subtropical Australia. Many of the forms 
of both are almost alike in appearance ; yet the versatile dorsifixed anthers distinguish 
L. celastroides not only from L. pendulus but also from every other Australian congener. 
L. eucalyptoides is, as suspected by Professor Asa Gray, referable to L. celastroides. 
Loranthus Preissii (Miq. in Lehm. pi. Preiss. i. 280) is also to be found in nearly every 
part of the Australian continent. This species proves to be identical with L. scoparius and the 
older but not adequately named L. linophyllus. In Sir Th. Mitchell’s collection, preserved 
in Sydney, it occurs as L. linarifolius, although the diagnosis (Mitch. Trop. Austr. 102) seems 
to point to L. Casuarina}. Its terete leaves and pink succulent berries seem to offer the 
principal distinctions between this and L. pendulus. 
Loranthus Casuarincc (Miq. in Lehm. pi. Preiss. i. 279) is as yet in its normal form 
with cylindrical leaves only found in the western extratropical portion of our continent, reaching 
to Chambers Creek eastward. But it appears that only the flat leaves distinguish L. Exocarpf, 
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