19G 
CALYCIFL0RJ5. 
base 5-nerved shortly petioluled, spikes axillary 
subsolitary or 2-5 together, one third the length 
of the leaves 3-9 jointed. 
Swartz , FI. hid. Occ. 2G6. 
II A B. On trees in the mountains, as well as by the sea- 
shore. 
F L. Throughout the year. 
A shrub, 2-3 feet in height. Leaves margined, thick- 
ish, subcoriaceous, of a greenish yellow colour, about 2 | 
inches long, and fths of an inch broad. £ Spikes about 
half the length of the leaves : joints 4, longer than in the 
fertile spikes, each bearing two opposite clusters of small 
sessile deciduous flowers, each cluster composed of 2-3 
rows with 3-4 flowers in each row. Yaginules of the joints 
bi-dentate. Petals 3, rarely 4. Anthers sessile. Rudiments 
of the style erect. 9 Spikes with the joints 3-9 : flowers 
2 4 on opposite sides of each joint. Berry ovoid, of a pale 
yellow, diaphanous, resembling in size and appearance a 
white currant: seed simple, ovate, compressed, acuminate, 
margined, green. 
The spikes vary in the number of the joints, and in the 
number of flowers on each joint. The Anther- bearing 
flowers are more numerous ; but the fertile spikes are com- 
posed of a greater number of joint s. 
b. Leafless, branches jointed. 
4. Viscum opuntioides. Opuntia-like Misletoe. 
Leafless, branches compressed jointed lineari- 
oblong, spikes articulated at the joints or at the 
end of the branches, bearing two opposite rows 
of flowers margined. 
V. aphyllon, baccis aureis, Plum. Spec. 17. t. 258 f. 1 . 
— V. opuntioides ramulis compressis, Sloane , 11.93. t. 
201 . f. 1 . — Browne , 357. — DC. Prod. IV. 284. 
H A B. On Trees, Northside of the Island. 
F L. Throughout the year. 
Stem snbterete. Spikes at the end of the branches and 
at their joints, opposite, jointed ; joints of the spike sub- 
tetragonal, each received into an urceolale membranule. 
Flowers in two opposite rows. Calyculc shallow, urceol- 
nte. Flowers minute. Petals 3, cohering towards the 
