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5 . GINALLOA, Korth. 
Parasitic shrubs on trees; branches dichotomous, whorled, 
jointed at nodes with a sheath-like thickening above the nodes. 
Leaves opposite, coriaceous. Flowers very small unisexual in threes 
in terminal and axillary spikes; bracts connate. Perianth-tube in 
male 3-lobed, lobes triangular-ovate, in female oblong; lobes 
smaller. Stamens 3; anthers ovoid. Stigma sessile capitate. 
Ovary enclosed in tube 1- or 2-ovuled. Drupe with leathery peri¬ 
carp; lobes persistent. Seed ovoid. Species 9, Andamans, 
Ceylon, Siam. 
(1) G, siamica var. Scortechinii Gamble, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 
l.c. 383. 
Leaves ovate or oblong, sub-falcate, blunt, short acuminate, 
base unequally round or narrowed, 2 to 3-2 in. long, -8 to 2 in. 
across ; ribs 3, faint; petioles stout, -27 in. long. Spikes terminal, 
*2 in. long or more. Hab. Very rare, Perak (Scortechini). 
6. KORTHALSELLA, Van Tieghem. 
Leafless parasites; branches jointed, flat. Flowers in axils of 
scales at the joints unisexual surrounded by tufts of hair; perianth- 
lobes 3, persistent in female. Anthers 3, 2-celled opening longi¬ 
tudinally but being connate with one central aperture. Ovary 
obovoid. Fruit obovoid. Species about 20, Indo-Malaya, Mas- 
car enes and Polynesia. 
(1) K. japonica Engl, and Prantl, Pflanzenjam. Nachlr. 13°; 
Gamble, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. l.c. 384. 
Plant green, 2 to 4 in. tall; joints narrowed at base, *2 to 
•75 in. long, obovate, all in one plane keeled. Flowers minute 
in fascicled clusters in cup-shaped bracts at the top of the inter¬ 
nodes. Drupe ellipsoid or ovoid, -07 to -2 in. long. Hab. Moun¬ 
tains. Parasitic on rhododendrons and other trees, Malacca, 
Mt. Ophir. Kedah Peak (Ridley). Distrib. India, China, Japan, 
Australia. 
7 . ARCEUTHOBIUM, Rich. 
Minute green parasites, usually with jointed stems, a cup¬ 
shaped double bract at each node with 1 to more sessile flowers. 
Males shortly stalked; sepals 2 (or 3) ovate; anthers sessile on 
sepal. Females, ovary elliptic-ovoid; sepals 2, sub-acute. Fruit 
elliptic crowned by sepals. Parasitic on conifers. Species 5 to 6, 
Europe, N. Asia, N. America. 
(1) A. dacrydii Ridl. Journ. F.M.S. Mus. vi. 170. 
One inch tall, trichotomously branched; stems obscurely 
4-angled, parasitic on Dacrydium Beccarii. Pahang, Gunong 
Tahan, at 3000 to 5000 ft. altitude (Ridley). 
