Korthalseila. | LORANTHACEAE. 395 
From 15 to 20 species are known, ranging from India and Malaya southwards and 
eastwards to New Zealand and the Sandwich Islands. Korthalsella amentacea Van 
Tieghem, a New Caledonian species, is erroneously stated in the ‘“ Pflanzenfamilien ”’ 
to be a native of New Zealand. 
Joints terete. jin. long, $+ in. broad. Flowers sessile, 
in whorls betwéen the joints ws = -* ae 
Joints flat, broadly obovate, $-}in. long, $-} in. broad. Flowers 
spicate, the spikes in lateral pairs and 1-3 terminal .. 2. K, Lindsay. 
Joints flat, linear-spathulate, 4-}in. long, 34-4 In. broad. ya 
Flowers spicate, the spikes solitary : ss .. dK. clavata. 
1. K. salicornioides. 
1. K. salicornioides/ Van. Tiegh. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. xl (1896) 
165.—A small tufted perfectly glabrous much-branched leafless species — 
2-4 in. high; branches opposite, rather succulent, terete, jointed ; joints » 
a5-t in. long, sin. broad, terete or obscurely flattened, expanded at the 
tip. Flowers very minute, dioecious, 4-8 together at the nodes, forming 
a ring round the branch, partly concealed by the expanded tip of the joints. 
Male flowers much the smallest; perianth-segments 3, triangular, each 
bearing a sessile anther on its inner face. Female flowers more numerous ; 
ovary ovoid, crowned by 3 very minute perianth-lobes. Fruit 3'5 in. long, 
ellipsoid, tipped by the persistent perianth-segments.—Viscum salicornioides 
A. Gunn. Precur. (1838) n. 485; Raoul Choia (1846) 42; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. 
Zel. i (1853) 101; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 108; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. FI. 
(1906) 623. 
Nortu AND SoutH Isuanps: From Mangonui and Kaitaia southwards to Dunedin, 
but often local. Sea-level to 1500 ft. 
Usually parasitic on Leptospermum, but also seen on Gaultheria and Dracophyllum. 
Although it stretches through almost the whole length of the Dominion, it is exceedingly 
local and rarely occurs in any great quantity. I have given a list of the chief habitats 
known to me in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xliii (1910) 182. 
VY (SS ee 
9. K. Lindsayi/ Engl. Pflanzenf. Nachtr. i (1897) 138.—A small 
succulent perfectly glabrous sparingly branched leafless little plant 2-6 in. 
high ; branches opposite, divaricate, jointed ; joints much flattened, $-4 in. 
long, $-4in. broad, broadly obovate to obovate-spathulate, coriaceous, 
dark-green, often punctate. Spikes usually 2 (rarely 4) to each node and 
1 to 3 at the top of the terminal joint, about din. long, jointed, the tip of 
each successive joint expanded and enclosing a whorl of 6-10 closely packed 
flowers. Flowers very minute, dioecious; the males pyriform, of 3 fleshy 
perianth-segments, each bearing a sessile anther on its inner face; the 
females of an ovoid ovary crowned by 3-4 perianth-lobes. Fruit obovoid, 
j. in. long, tipped by the persistent perianth-lobes.—Viscum Lindsayi 
D. Oliver ex Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 108; Lindsay Contr. N.Z. Bot. 
(1868) 52, t. 2; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 622. Heterixia Lindsayi 
Van Tiegh. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Pr. xlin (1896) 138. 
Norta IsuandD: Hawke’s Bay—Norsewood, Colenso! Patangata, Tryon! ‘Tara- 
naki—Mangamahu, H. Bolton! Wellington — Lake~Weirarapa and Wainuiomata, 
B.C. Aston! SournIstanp: Marlborough—Queen Charlotte Sound, J. H. Macmahon ! 
Canterbury—Banks Peninsula, J. B. Armstrong! Broken River, J. D. Enys! T. F.C. 
Otago—Vicinity of Dunedin, Lindsay, Buchanan! Petrie! Winton, T. Kirk; Lake 
Wanaka, Cockayne. \ bok AirkyS bw. (a0 
Parasitic on Sophora, Melicope, Myrtus, Metrosideros, Coprosma, Myrsine, &c. 
IT am indebted to Mr. Bolton for specimens of Melicope simplex showing both this species 
and K. salicornioides parasitic on the same branch. 
