208 CXXXIL LORANTHAOEX. (J. D. Hooker)  [Loranthus. 
terete base swollen 4-angled, calyx-limb entire. L. ligustrinus, Herb. Ind, 
Or. H. f. & T. in part. 
Kuasta Mrs., alt. 1-3000 ft. J. D. H. & T. T. 
Very similar to L. ligustrinus, and always growing from. the ground, and hence ' 
probably a root parasite, quite glabrous, leaves thinner with more distinct nerves, 
racemes sometimes 2 in. long.—Dr. Thomson and I gathered this plant at seven or 
eight places at various localities all over the Khasia Mts., and never found it attached 
to an aerial tree-branch. It either replaces L. ligustrinus or is a remarkable form 
of that plant. I find no traces of ferruginous pubescence on it. 
Secr. III. Heteranthus. Flowers 1-1} in., axillary, cymose or race- 
mose; bract scale-like ; bracteoles 0. Petals 4-6, free; buds straight or 
incurved, tip not clavate. -Anthers very slender, continuous with the fila- 
ment, 2-celled. 
16. E. heteranthus, Wall. Cat. 597; very robust, nearly glabrous, 
leaves alternate shortly petioled elliptic or oblong-lanceolate or linear obtuse 
or subacute thickly coriaceous penninerved and striolate, racemes longer 
than the leaves very stout curved sparse-fld., pedicels very stout, ovary 
cylindric, buds 1-13 in. curved slender acute, petals 6. DC. Prodr. v. 306. 
L. eleutheropetalus, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1871, ii. 64, and For. Flor. u. 
321. Dendrophthoe macrocalyx, Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 1, 821. 
BurMa; Martaban, Wallich, Brandis.—DisTRIB. Java, Borneo. 
Branches terete; bark smooth, dark. Leaves 3-5 in., very variable in breadth, 
` pale yellow-brown when dry, nerves very obscure, base acute, narrowed into the very 
stout petiole 1-3 in. Racemes solitary or in pairs, 3-5 in., rachis and pedicels very 
stout ; bract orbicular, concave. Calyx } in. narrow, limb cupular entire. Corolla- 
buds slender, linear, red; segments very slender. -Anthers twice as long as the fila- 
ment. Style filiform, stigma simple.— Kurz describes the flowers as at first minutely 
puberulous. 
Secr. IV. Cichlanthus. Flowers in axillary fascicles, rarely race- 
mose, usually scurfily or mealy-tomentose; bract scale-like; bracteoles 0. 
Calyx hardly produced above the ovary. Corolla long, curved, scurfy, 4- 
rarely 5-lobed, and deeply cleft behind. Anthers narrow, cells indistinct. 
Fruit clavate turbinate or pyrifornf, except L. vestitus. 
* Leaves mealy or scurfy on both surfaces, rarely glabrescent. Fruit 
pyritorm or clavate. 
17. A. seurrula, Linn.;—Kurz For. Fl. ii. 319; young shoots and 
inflorescence covered with short soft white or rusty tomentum, leaves opposite 
petioled or sessile ovate elliptic oblong cordate or obovate obtuse or subacute 
penninerved glabrous or tomentose beneath, flowers in axillary very sho 
subracemose fascicles pedicelled, ovary pyriform, corolla 1 in. very slender 
usually curved terete, tube split, lobes 4 short, bud terete, tip subclavate 
acute or obtuse, berry pyriform tomentose. y 
Throughout INDIA; from the Sikkim Himalaya and Bengal southwards to 
Singapore; and from Behar, Central India and the Concan, southwards to Travancore 
and CEYLON. à 
_ ,Alarge bush, very variable in amount of pubescence, form and size of leaves, an 
in inflorescence; bark smooth or lenticellate, usually pale. Leaves rarely ex ing 
3 in. coriaceous; nerves slender; petiole rarely $ in. Inflorescence if racemose 
rarely j in. long; pedicels long or short. Ovary with the base often lengthening 
into. a pedicel as the fruit ripens; calyx-limb very short, entire. Corolla varia 
in length, j-l in., very slender, buff or pink, lobes acute, Filaments short. 
