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XXXVI. LORA NTH AC EJ5. 
[Loranthus. 
small, ■§— f- in. long, glabrous, with divaricating peduncles and pedicels 
in. long. Flowers minute, green, ■§■ in. long. Petals free, spreading, linear. 
Anthers oblong. Style suddenly tortuous ; stigma capitate. 
Common throughout the islands, from the Bay of Islands to Otago, Banks and Solander, 
etc. 
2. TUPEIA, Chamisso and Schlechtendal. 
A parasitical dioecious shrub. Branches terete, jointed. Leaves opposite 
and alternate. — Flowers panicled, not jointed to the pedicels, which are jointed 
to the peduncles. Male: Calyx 0. Petals 4, free, linear, recurved. Sta- 
mens 4 ; anthers broadly oblong. Ovary, style, and stigma 0. Female : 
Ovary ovoid with no calyx-limb. Petals 4, reflexed, linear, free. Stamens 0. 
Style short, straight, constricted below the capitate stigma, deciduous. 
A genus of but one species. 
1. T. antarctica, Cham, and Schl. ; — FI. N. Z. i. 101. t. 26. Branches 
terete; bark pale. Leaves |-1^ in. long, oblong obovate lanceolate or ob- 
long-lanceolate, subacute, narrowed into short petioles, pale green, veinless or 
with faint veins branching from the midrib. Panicles small, axillary and 
terminal, 6-10-flowered. Peduncles and pedicels in. long, divaricate, 
very slender. Flowers ebracteate, a in. diam., greenish-yellow. Filaments 
about as long as the oblong anthers. Berry white or spotted with pink. — 
T. pub iff era and T. Cunninghamii, Miquel, in Linnaea, xviii. 85. 
Abundant throughout the islands, Banks and Solander, etc. ; parasitic on various bushes, 
sometimes on Loranthus micrantlius. A very variable plant, iu size, colour, and robustness. 
3. VISCUM, Linn. 
Parasitical shrubs, of which the New Zealand species are small, leafless, 
with flattened, jointed branches, much constricted at the joints. — Flowers very 
minute, spicate or solitary or whorled at the joints of the branches, dioecious 
or monoecious. Male : Perianth 3- or 4-leaved. Anthers sessile and adnateto 
the perianth lobes ; pollen in many cavities which open by pores. Female : 
Perianth 3- or 4-lobed. Stamens 0. Style 0 or short, stigma obtuse. Berry 
ovoid, succulent. 
A very large, chiefly tropical and subtropical genus, including the Mistletoe, of which 
many species have the habit of Loranthus and otherwise differ from the two New Zealand 
ones. 
Joints 5 in. broad, very flat. Flowers spiked 1 . V. Lindsayi. 
Joints in. broad, terete. Flowers on the joints 2. V. salicornioides. 
1. V. Lindsayi, Oliver, n. sp. A small, glabrous, branching, succu- 
lent shrub, 4-6 in. high. Joints of stem obovate, very flat, rather longer 
than broad. Spikes often 3, starting from the upper joint, divaricating, j in. 
long. Peduncle jointed. Flowers very minute, whorled on the joints of the 
peduncle. Perianth 3-lobed ; lobes persistent. 
Middle Island : Otago, Lindsay, Hector. Parasitic on Coprosrna, Metrosideros, and 
Melicope. 
2. V. salicornioides, A. Cmm. ; — FI. N. Z. i. 101. A very small, 
glabrous, succulent plant, much branched, 3-4 in. high. Joints of stems 
