THE LORANTHACEAE OP AUSTRALIA. Part vi. Li I By W. F. Blakely, Botanical Assistant, National Herbarium, Sydney\,y^. (Plates i — xii.) [Read 25th March, 1925.] / r'X Subgenus DENDROPHTHOE. Petals 5 or 6, united, without basal folds. Filaments not barbed. Sect. Lysiaj^a. Flowers solitary, binate or in clusters of 3-5, with or without a common peduncle. Corolla usuallj^ 6-merous. i. Leaves terete or nearly so. 1. Flowers 2 cm. long, solitary or in pairs, without a common peduncle. Pedicels elongated. Leaves usually alternate, single or fascicled 32. L. Murrayi. Flowers 1.3-1.5 cm. long var. parviflora. la. Flowers binate, pedicellate, the common peduncle elongated. Leaves opposite, sub-filiform 33. L. MitchelUanus. 2. Flowers in pairs or clusters. Common peduncle very short or almost obscure. Leaves firm, somewhat flexuose, acute 34. L. Oasuarinae. ii. Leaves fiat. 1. Flowers green at the top, red at the base. Leaves opposite or sometimes alternate, narrow-oblong, penninerved, 3-8 cm. long 35. L. Exocarpi. 2. Leaves slender, 10-15 cm. long (a) var. tenuis. Xa. Flowers yellow. Leaves narrow, 3-6 cm. long (6) var. flavescens. 2a. Leaves cuneate-spathulate, venulose, 2-3 cm. long (c) var. venulosa. lb. Flowers red, 3.5 cm. long. Leaves narrow, oblong to falcate-lanceolate. (d) var. coccineus. Ic. Flowers 2.5 cm. long. Leaves spathulate, 6-10 cm. long, (e) var. spathulata. Sect. Amylotheca. Inflorescence cymose or subumbellate. Flowers in triads, the central flower sessile. Style capillary. Apex of ovary prismatic. 1. Leaves broad, oblong to lanceolate, veins reticulate .... 36. L. dictyophlebus. Ser. EudendropMhoe. Flowers binate, racemose or in axillary clusters. Corolla inflated in the middle. Petals 5, rarely 6. i. Young shoots and inflorescence glabrous. 1. Flowers in pairs on slender pedicels. Leaves petiolate, alternate, lanceolate 37. L. acacioides. 2. Flowers racemose. Leaves opposite, sessile, cordate . . 38. L. homoplasticus. ii. Young shoots and inflorescence pubescent, except in var. glabrescens. 1. Indumentum ferruginous. Racemes 10 — 20-flowered 39. L. vitelUnus. la. Racemes strictly glabrous var. glabrescens.
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