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204 OXXXIL LORANTHACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [Loranthus. 
Sect. I. Buloranthus. Flowers small under 4 in.; bract scale-like 
or hollow; bracteoles 0. Petals 4-6, free. -Anthers ovate or oblong, base 
obtuse, cells unequal or one suppressed. 
1. L. odoratus, Wall. in Roxb, Fl. Ind. Ed. Carey § Wall. ii. 215, 
and Cat. 505; quite glabrous, leaves subopposite elliptic or lanceolate, 
flowers minute opposite or fascicled on axillary spikes, petals 6 free. Don 
Prodr. 143; DC. Prodr. iv. 294, L. hexapetalus, Ham. mss. 
NEPAL, Wallich; E. Nepal and Sikkim, alt. 7000 ft., J. D. H. Khasia Mts. on 
oaks, alt. 5—6000 ft., Griffith, J. D. H. & T. T. (Loranth. 27, 28). 
Bushy, bark dark. Leaves 3-5 in., fleshy, narrowed into a petiole, often falcate, 
penninerved, nerves slender. Spikes 1-2} in., strict, solitary or fascicled; flowers 
4-4 in. yellowish, sweet-scented. Ovary with the base sunk in the rachis ; caly 
limb short; style very stout, stigma capitate. Petals spathulate, j in. long; buds 
clavate. . Fruit ellipsoid, glabrous. 
2. L. Lobbii, Hook. f.; leaves opposite sessile ovate-lanceolate fro’ 
rounded or acute base glabrous, flowers minute sessile fascicled in smal 
sessile clusters, calyx rusty-tomentose, petals 4 free puberulous. 
PrnanG, Lobb, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 695/2), Curtis. . «kl 
Branches terete; bark pale, obscurely puberulous. Leaves 2}-4 in., thic 4 
coriaceous, almost nerveless, obtusely acuminate, minutely impressed-punctate throug 
the contraction of the tissues on both surfaces which are similar. Flowers some 
times 1-sexual; clusters 6-20-fld., 1-3 in. diam. Petals 2 in. long, linear, obtuse, pu* 
berulous, free; buds oblong, tip rounded. Ovary globose; calyx-limb shortly tubular. 
Style clavate, stigma obtuse. Fruit à in. long, puberulous, ellipsoid.—This 1s the . 
plant referred to in Gen. Plant. iii. 208 as from Moulmein, and possibly L. axanthus, 
Korth. The Moulmein habitat is an error ; there are 3 specimens of it in the Kew 
Herbarium, all from Lobb, and all bear his number 338: of these one is stated to be 
from Java, asecond from Penang, and athird from Moulmein. As, however, Maingay § 
specimens are from Penang, so no doubt are all the others. It differs from the ote 
matran L. azanthus, Korth. (Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat, i. 1. 834), in the subsessile leaves anf 
other characters. There are very imperfect specimens of probably this species from 
Borneo (Beccari, 2378). 
3. L. nodiflorus, Thwaites Enum. Pl. Ceyl. 184; leaves opposite 
petioled elliptic acute or acuminate glabrous, flowers small sessile fasci 
1n sessile clusters, calyx rusty-tomentose, petals 4 free glabrous. 
CEYLON, Walker; in forests of the Ambagamowa District, Thwaites. t 
Branches terete, thickly lenticellate. Leaves 2}-3 in., thickly coriaceous, almos 
nerveless, tissue contracted as in Z. ZLobbii. Flowers in small clusters. Ovary 
globose. Style filiform, stigma hemispheric ; calyx-limb short, dilated. Petals 3 n. 
long, linear, obtuse, quite glabrous ; buds linear, tip obtuse. 
SrcT. II. Phoenicanthemum. Flowers small, not 1 in. long; gpicate 
or racemose, 2-sexual; bract scale-like, bracteoles 0. Corolla lobes or Seg" 
ments 4—5, reflexed symmetrically ; buds often clavate at the tip. Anthert 
oblong, erect, continuous with the filament, 2-celled. PHGNICANTHEMU 
(Gen.), Miquel. ` 
* Racemes or spikes very many-fld., quite glabrous. 
4. &. Wallichianus, Schultz. Syst. vii. 100; quite glabrous, leaves 
opposite and alternate petioled elliptic obtuse penninerved, racemes sen ds 
fascicled shorter than the leaves, flowers 4 in. 4-merous, glabrous, 74 
straight subcylindric obtuse, ovary smooth. DO. Prodr. xvi. 294; W9 
