Loranthus.] CXXXII. LORANTHACER. (J. D. Hooker.) 211 
also is very characteristic. The only specimens I have seen are Griffith’s, and they 
were communicated to Dr. Gardner in Ceylon. ` 
_ 22. D. thelocarpus, Hook. f.; branchlets and leaves beneath clothed 
with very fine cinnamon or tawny scurfy stellate tomentum, leaves opposite 
petioled oblong or ovate-oblong obtuse glabrous above, flowers fascicled on 
- Short, axillary peduncles pedicelled, fruit clavate papillose contracted into a 
pedicel with an annular thickened base. Loranthus No. 6, Herb. Ind. Or. 
Hf. § T. 
CuiTtagone ; at Kazi ke hat, J. D. H. 4 T. T. E 
Branches stout, terete, sparsely lenticellate, bark grey. Leaves 13-3 in., rigidly 
coriaceous, dark brown and opaque above, nerves most obscure, base rounded ; petiole 
i-bin. Flowers not seen; bracts very minute. Fruit } in. long, subumbellate, in- 
Serted on pedicels half their length, puberulous and bearing naked orbicular pustule- 
ake tubercles, tip rounded.—A peculiar species, not easily distinguished by words — 
Tom L. seurrula, except by the very different fruit, which bears papille something 
Tike a Boerhavia; the leaves also are much more rigid than Z. seurrala. 
23. L. pulverulentus, Wall. in Roxb. Fl. Ind. Ed. Carey & Wall. 
221, and Cat. 515; branchlets and young leaves clothed with flocculent 
white fugacious mealy tomentum, leaves often large opposite long-petioled 
broadly ovate or ovate-oblong glabrous acute or obtuse, nerves distinct, 
Owers l in, in solitary or fascicled racemes long-pedicelled scurfily white- 
tomentose, calyx-limb 0, corolla slender curved, tube terete, split, lobes 4 
narrow, fruit clavate mealy. DO. Prodr. iv. 301; Brand. For. Fl. 396; 
Kurz For, Fr. ii, 818. L. carnosus, Wall. Cat. 552. L.leptanthus, Wall. 
Cat. 553 (excl. B). | l 
SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA, alt. 24000 ft., from Garwhal to Bhotan. Prev and 
Ava, Kurz, CENTRAL Provinors, Brandis. The Concan, Stocks. 
Branches robust, terete, usually closely lenticellate; bark dark grey. Leaves very 
Variable in size, 2-8 im. (much smaller in var. leptanthus), dark brown when dry ; 
nerves arching, much stronger than in its allies; petiole 1-1 in. Racemes 1-23 in. ; 
pedicels 4—1 in.; bract minute; flowers green when fresh, white or cream-coloured 
when dry, Ovary pyriform, top contracted. Style very slender, stigma minute ovoid. 
d * large, club-shaped," Kurz. . 
ar. leptanthus ; leaves smaller 1-2 in. elliptic or orbicular very coriaceous nerves 
acne, corolla 1} in. L.leptanthus, DC. l. c. 299.  L.leptanthus, Wall., B. rotun- 
olia, Cat. 533 B. "Ava, Wallich. 
** Leaves glabrous or nearly so. Fruit turbinate. 
24. L. umbellifer, Schultz Syst. vi. 97; youngest parts rusty- 
, Pübescent, leaves opposite and alternate petioled oblong obtuse or acute 
glabrous, flowers 1-1} in. umbelled or fascicled rarely subracemose on short 
n Xillary peduncles young hoary, corolla-tube slender curved, lobes 4 short, 
rut turbinate. DO. Prodr. iv. 301. L. umbellatus, Wall. im Rowb. FT. 
— Ed. Carey & Wall. ii. 222, and Cat. 516; Don Prodr. 143.—Loranth. 
972, Herb, Ind. Or. Hf & T. . 
500g APERA TE and SUBTROPICAL HrwALAYA, from Nepal to Bhotan, alt. 2- 
fL, Wallich, &e. Knasta Mrs., alt. 4-6000 ft., common. both end 
; ranches rather stout, grey, lenticellate. Leaves 3-4 in., subacute "a otn ends, 
-riaceous, nerves distinct, brownish when dry; petiole }-} in. nflorescence 
Variable, flowers sometimes fascicled on the branches without a common peduncle, at 
Calg Sübracemose, but with the raceme never more than j in. ; bract small, 
alyantube minute, ovoid or obovoid, rusty-pubescent; limb very short, obscurely 4- 
Corolla exceedingly slender in bud, with a clavate obtuse or gabecute tip; 
