392 vie LORANTHACEAE, [ Llytranthe. 
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4. E. flavida Engl. Pflanzenf. chur i (1897) 126.—A_ sparingly 
branched glabrous shrub 1-3ft. high; branches spreading. Leaves 
opposite, 1-21in. long, linear-oblong, usually rounded at the tip, rarely 
apiculate, narrowed at the base into a short petiole, flat, very conaceous, 
veins inconspicuous, or 3-5 diverging from the base; margins thickened 
and very minutely crenulate when dry, often red when fresh. Racemes 
axillary, 10-16-flowered, spreading or drooping, #-2in. long; peduncle 
slender, tetragonous; pedicels opposite and decussate, about % in, long; 
bracts obsolete. Flowers 3-3 in. long, orange-yellow. Calyx-limb minute, 
cupular, truncate. Corolla slender, swollen above the base; petals united 
almost to the middle, upper part sharply reflexed, linear-spathulate. 
Anthers small, linear-oblong. Style rather longer than the corolla; stigma 
large, capitate-—Loranthus flavidus Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 100, 
t. 27; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 107; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 620. 
L. polychroa Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvii (1885) 241, Alepis flavida Van 
Tiegh. Bull. Bot. Soc. Fr. xli (1894) 489. 
Norra and Sours Isinanps: Not uncommon in Nothofagus forests from the East 
Cape, Ruapehu, and Mount Egmont southwards. Sea-level to 3500 ft. December- 
February. 
Van Tieghem accepts Colenso’s Loranthus polychroa, giving it the name of Alepis 
polychroa. Probably he did not see any specimens, for the examination of one given 
to me by Mr. Colenso leaves no doubt in my mind that it is absolutely identical with 
H. flavida. 
1. LORANTHUS Linn. j7b2, Yow. Counce, Vo. 
Parasitic shrubs. Leaves opposite or rarely alternate, entire, coriaceous. Raith 14uc 
Flowers hermaphrodite, often highly coloured, yellow or orange or red, 
rarely white or greenish, in axillary racemes or cymes, rarely solitary. 
Perianth double ; outer (calyx) adnate to the ovary; limb short, truncate 
or 4-6-toothed ; inner (corolla) tubular , of 4-6 free or more or less connate 
petals, their tips ultimately spreading or reflexed. Stamens as many as 
the petals and inserted on them ; filaments distinct ; anthers adnate. Ovary 
inferior, 1-celled ; style filiform; stigma terminal. Fruit a berry. 
A large genus of about 350 species, abundant in the tropics, but rare in temperate 
regions. The single New Zealand species is endemic. 
1. L. mieranthus Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 100.—A_ perfectly 
glabrous bushy shrub 2-5 ft. high; branches terete, the younger ones 
flattened and 2-edged. Leaves opposite, 11-3 in. long, oblong or elliptic- 
oblong or oblong-obovate, rounded at the tip, narrowed into a stout petiole 
about in. long, thick and coriaceous, veins very obscure. Panicles small, 
1-3 in. long, axillary, trichotomously branched, many-flowered ; branches 
slender, divaricating. Flowers minute, greenish, }in. long. Calyx-tube 
cylindrical ; limb very minute, truncate. Corolla of 4 linear-oblong spread- 
ing petals, free to the base. Anthers small, oblong, basifixed. Style stout, 
short, suddenly twisted up and down at the middle; stigma lateral, 
capitate. Berry bright-yellow, oblong, viscid, }in. long—Handb. N.Z. 
Fl. (1864) 107; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 618, 1149. Ileostylus 
micranthus Van Tiegh. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. xli (1894) 489. I. Kirkii 
Van Tiegh. lc. xliti (1895) 25. V. antarcticum A. Cunn. Precur. (1838) 
n. 483 (not of Forst.). 
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