Loranthus.| LORANTHACEAE. 393 
Norra anp Sours Isuanps, Stewart Istanp: Abundant in lowland districts 
throughout. Sea-level to 2000 ft. October-November. 
Easily distinguished by its small green flowers. Parasitic on Coprosma, Melicope, 
Leptospermum, &c. At the native settlement of Waihi, at the south end of Lake 
Taupo, it grows in great abundance on Pear and Plum trees. Van Tieghem’s Ileostylus 
Kirl:it is based wpon specimens collected near Auckland by Kirk, and is said to differ 
from the type in the shape and structure of the leaves. But no second species exists 
in Mr. Kirk’s herbarium, and the typical form is the only one I have seen near Auckland. 
3. PHRYGILANTHUS Eichl. 
Parasitic shrubs. Leaves opposite, seldom alternate, coriaceous. Flowers 
conspicuous, red, yellow, or white, usually arranged in few- or many- 
flowered trichotomous panicles. Perianth double; outer (calyx) adnate 
to the ovary, limb short, obscurely 4-6-toothed or almost truncate ; inner 
(corolla) of 4-6 free or slightly cohering petals. Stamens 5-6, long and 
filiform; anthers versatile; pollen 3-lobed. Style long, filiform, ovary 
1-celled. Fruit globose or oblong. 
A widely diffused tropical genus, containing from 20 to 30 species. The two 
found in New Zealand are both endemic. | 
Flowers in axillary trichotomous panicles... ~ .. L. P. tenurflorus, 
Flowers in terminal trichotomous panicles .. he .. 2. P. Raoult. 
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Ew. enuificstt Tal Pflanzenf. Nachtr. 1 (1897)~ 134.—A small 
glabrous shrub; brahches slender, terete. Leaves opposite, 1-14 in. long, 
obovate or obovate-oblong, obtuse, narrowed into short slender petioles, 
veins few, slender. Flowers about lin. long, in axillary trichotomous 
puberulous panicles; peduncles and pedicels slender, divaricating, about 
lin. long. Corolla slender, terete, curved; petals very narrow, united 
2-way up, but perhaps ultimately separating. Anthers oblong, versatile. 
Style slender; stigma simple——Loranthus tenuiflorus Hook. f. Fl. Nov. 
Zel. i (1853) 100; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 107; Cheesem. Man. N.Z, Fl. 
(1906) 620. Hookerella tenuifiora Van. Tiegh. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. xm 
(1895) 25. 
- Norta Isuanp: Locality unknown. 
Founded upon a single specimen in the Kew Herbarium, the exact locality of which 
is not known. It is evidently a most distinct species, diitering from all others found 
in New Zealand (except the following) in the many-flowered trichotomous panicles and 
versatile anthers. The latter are not fully described by Hooker, but in the “ Genera 
Plantarum ”’ the species is referred to Phrygilanthus, in which they are versatile. 
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2. P. Raoulii/Engl. Pfldnzenf. Nachtr. 1 (1897) 134——I have seen no 
specimens of this, which is quite unknown to New Zealand botanists. 
According to Van Tieghem, it differs radically from P. tenuiflorws in the 
inflorescence being terminal and not axillary, and in the flowers being 
pentamerous.—Mullerina Raoulii Van Tiegh. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. xi 
(1895) 25. 
Norru Istanp: Bay of Islands, Raoul (on Meirosideros); Whangaroa, A. Cun- 
ningham (on Metrosideros and Vitex). 
According to Van Tieghem, this species was confused by both Cunningham and 
Raoul with Forster’s Loranthus tetrapetalus, the Elytranthe tetrapetala of this work. In 
his *‘ Precursor,’’ Cunningham certainly speaks ot /.. tetrapetalus as having been gathered 
by himself and his brother at the Bay of Islands and Whangaroa, districts altogether 
outside the range of Forster’s L. tetrapetalus. Raoul includes L. tetrapetalus in the 
list of plants collected by himself, but does not give any locality. It is much to be 
desired that some resident at the Bay of Islands or Whangaroa would investigate the 
matter; 
