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[Loranthacece.
.....................’ caulinis petiolatis apice palmatifidis spinoso-senatis, floralibus capitulo breve
p edunculato ovali approximatis sessilibus ovato-lanceolatis inciso-spinosis parvis, involucri
foliolis lanceolato-subulatis integerrimis capitulo brevioribus paleis consimilibus H ab.
Talisco.
Caulcs 6-7-pollicares. Capitula lineas duas longa.
4.. E. Beecheyanum ; caule erecto strlato simplici apice corymboso, foliis radicalibus
lineari-oblongis basi a ttenuatis serraturis acuminato-spinosis a basi ad apicem instructis,
caulinis subsessilibus basi serrato-pinnatifidis apice p almato-partitis, capitulis pedunculatis
ovalibus comosis, involucri foliolis 9 capituhim subæquantibus lanceolato-subulatis in te gerrimis
vel sæpius u trin q u e unidentatis, paleis integris, fru c tu minute pap u lo so— H a b .
Talisco.
Caulis vix pedalis. Capitula semipolücaria.
1. Pastin aca sativa. L in n .
Probably cultivated.
O r d . X L IV . A R A L IA C EÆ . Juss.
1. H e d e rá arborea-, foliis simplicibus late ovalibus basi apice ro tunda tis vel ovatis
acuminatis, floribus umbellatis, umbellis racemosis superioribusve subumbellatis longe
p edunculatis, pedunculis p a tentibus vel deflexis, stylis in unicum pentagonum coniculi
coadunatis.—H . arborea. Sw. ? D e Cand. ? Prod. 4. p . 262 ?
Petala quinque, libera, calycis margo quinqueerenatus.
Of this order we find two other species in the collection, both without leaves. The one is from Talisco,
and has the flowers capitate, the capitula peduncled and disposed in a raceme, as in many speeies oi Actino-
phjllum and Hederá, but has only two styles, as in Panax, to the known species of which it has little
resemblance. In the other, from Tepic, tbe flowers are umbellate, from fifteen to thirty in each umbel: these
umbels form a corymbose pannide, the branches of which are covered with a mealy pubescence that is easily
rubbed off; there are five styles, which are united into one to near the middle, the upper portion being
recurved. This is perhaps Aralia pubescens.
O r d . X L V . L O R A N T H A C E Æ . Juss.
1. Lo ran th u s calyculatus. D e Cand. ?
The structure of the flowers and bractea is the same with the plant of De Candolle, but the young branches
are angled : we should have supposed it to be L . ScJieidianus, Schlecht. (in Linntea! 5. p. 172), so well d ^ I
it generally agree with the description, but that has a corolla three inches long, while in ours it ('
exceed half that length. The leaves are ovate-lanceolate, falcate, and acuminated.
In the collection there is another species oi Loranthus, or perhaps of Viscum, with opposite, ovai, acute, c
obtuse leaves, and long slender branches, but there is neither flowers nor fruit.
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