CXXIV. LORANTHACE^E. 
[Notothixos, 
156 
Dubious Species. 
Nallogia Gaudichaudiana Baillon, Bull. Soc . Linn. Rar. ii. 985, 
and Hist. PL xi. 478. A glabrous tree with alternate mem¬ 
branous leaves and axillary male flowers in racemes, 5-lobed; 
anthers dehiscing laterally. Malacca (Gaudichaud). 
I cannot guess what this was. 
Order CXXV. SANTALACE2E. 
Trees, shrubs (or herbs) many parasitic on branches or roots of 
other plants. Leaves alternate, opposite, scale-like or 0. Flowers 
small, usually uni- or bi-sexual. Perianth superior or inferior, 
3- to 8-lobed. Stamens as many as and opposite to lobes attached 
to tube. Disc epigynous or perigynous. Ovary i-celled, inferior; 
ovules 2 to 3; style short; stigma entire or lobed. Fruit a drupe 
(or not). Seed globose or ovoid, rugose or grooved. Species about 
240. Whole world (Gamble, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. Ixxv. (2), 
269). 
Climbing shrubs, parasitic; flowers minute . . .1. Henslowia 
Leafless parasites with minute flowers . . .2. Phacellaria 
Spiny trees; flowers in dense pendent spikes. 
Drupe large, pear-shaped . . . , *3- Scleropyrum 
1 . HENSLOWIA, Blume. 
Parasitic, scandent shrubs usually climbing over bushes. 
Leaves alternate, fleshy, more or less obovate, narrowed to the 
petiole and decurrent. Flowers very minute, unisexual (occasion¬ 
ally bisexual), the males in fascicles of cymes or heads or racemose, 
the females solitary or in small clusters, yellow or green. Male 
perianth flat, 5- to 6-lobed, valvate. Stamens 5 or 6 insert on 
the lobes and opposite them; filaments short and thick; anthers 
introrse. Disc epigynous. Female perianth tubular, globose or 
oblong, lobes as in male. No stamens, but sometimes staminodes. 
Ovary inferior, i-celled, 2- to 4-ovuled; stigma sub-sessile. Drupe 
oblong or ovoid, black or red; exocarp pulpy; endocarp bony, 
ridged or rugose, protruding 8 to 10 hard plates into fissures in 
the lobed seed. Species about 20, Indo-Malayan and Chinese. 
A very difficult genus, as the plants seem to vary much, especially in 
form and size of leaves in different parts, and the specimens preserve badly. 
They require study in the field. The rugosities of the fruit described here 
are not visible in fresh fruit, and are taken from dried plants. 
Drupe large, -5 in. long. 
Leaves broad obovate, 5-ribbed . (1) H. Ridleyi 
Leaves narrow oblanceolate, hardly 1 in. long. (2) H. minor 
Drupe not more than *4 in. long, ovoid or ellipsoid. 
Leaves 3- to 5-ribbed; drupe 5, furrowed; 
flowers in axillary umbels . . , . (3) H. umbellata 
