Loranthus.] ^ OXxXu. LomawTHaoEm. (J. D. Hooker.) 2 
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` dar. lanuginosus, Thwaites Enum. 135. L. Candolleanus, Hohenack. Pl. 
Ind. Or. No. 514 a.—Loranth. No. 9, Herb. Ind. Or. H. SfE T: 
NILGHIRI and PULNEY Mts., Heyne, Wight, Schmidt, &c. CEYLON, alt. 3- 
5000 ft., Thwaites (C. P. 2492). ` 
Branches stout, dark grey, terete. Leaves 1-14 in., tip rounded, rarely 3-nerved 
at the base, glabrous, black and opaque above when dry; petiole 4-} in. Fascicles 
few-fld., solitary or clustered, peduncle rarely 4 in. Ovary short. Corolla-tube 
terete, curved, split to the middle, not inflated or gibbous. Filaments short, anthers 
oblong. Style filiform, stigma capitellate.—I have regarded this as Heyne’s 
tomentosus, in contradistinction to his bracteatus, agreeing as it does with Roth’s 
character, except in that the pubescence is rusty red and not grey. Roth describes 
. the bract as only 2 lines long, whereas in Heyne's bracteatus it reaches à in.: 
this is, however, a very variable organ in both species. Thwaites’ var. normalis 
(C. P. 1642) is very unlike the normal peninsular forms; it has elliptic-oblong green 
leaves 3-3} in. long, with subsilky pubescence beneath, dense clusters of sessile 
flowers, aud less villous flowers. 
28. L. bracteatus, Heyne in Roxb. Fl. Ind. Ed. Carey § Wall. ii. 
220: branches inflorescence and young leaves beneath clothed with thin 
Soft grey or buff tomentum, leaves all alternate petioled orbicular or cuneate- 
obovate penninerved, bract (sometimes 2) much longer than the 5-toothed 
calyx, flowers $-l in. in axillary peduncled fascicles. pedicelled, corolla 
curved, tube gibbously inflated in the middle, lobes 5 linear. DC. Prodr. 
WV. 306 (excl. syn. tomentosus); Wall. Cat. 510; Wight § Arn. Prodr. 
985 (excl, syn. Roth, &c.). L. tomentosus, Wight Ic. t. 978. L. Heyneanus, 
Schult. Syst. 106. 
SOUTH DECCAN PENINSULA ; on the Nilghiris, &c., Heyne, &c. 
Rootstock creeping, branches slender. Leaves 1-1 in., grey when dry, rarely 
emeately obovate, glabrous or grey-pubescent or tomentose ; petiole slender, 3-1 in. 
"acts oblong, often 3 times as long as the 5-toothed calyx. Flowers much longer 
than in T, tomentosus, not villous, more appressedly grey-pubescent, tube more slender 
though gibbously swollen in the middle; lobes very narrow. Fruit j in., elliptic- 
oblong, puberulous, . ` 
Var, angustifolia; clothed with thin ashy tomentum, leaves narrowly obovate- 
cuneate, bracts very narrow, flowers smaller. L. montanus, var. longifolius, Wight in 
Wall. Herb. (6866 in part) .— Pulney Mts., Wight,—Though very dissimilar in foliage, 
find no character whereby to distinguish this specifically. 
- 29. L. Stocksii, Hook. f; leaves small opposité clothed with buff 
mealy pubescence sessile or subsessile oblong or orbicular rounded at both 
ends or base cordate, flowers solitary axillary sessile, bracts as long as the 
calyx oblong obtuse, fruit small pyriform tomentose. Loranth. No. 15, 
Herb. Ind. Or. H. FT 
The C h 
ONCAN, Stocks. young mealy like the foliage. 
ranches slender, bark grey, not lenticellate, . R 
faves 3-1 in, mealy on both surfaces ; nerves few, obscure, Fruit (young) ]-3 in. 
2283 tip rounded; calyx-limb not produced truncate,—Apparently a very distinct 
dum near L, bracteatus, but with, sessile leaves and pyriform fruit like that of a 
Yctanthus, to which section perhaps it should be referred. 
la 30. Y. recurvus, Wall. in DC. Prodr. iv. 299, and Cat. 525 ; branch- 
dit And young leaves clothed with buff or grey pubescence, leaves’ a 
t erate obovate-cuneate glabrous or ashy-pubescent beneath, 3-nerved at 
i il base, bract shorter than the 5-toothed calyx, flowers $ in. in numerous 
meat Sessile tomentose fascicles pedicelled, corolla usually strongly curve 1, 
we split gibbously inflated below the middle; lobes 5 linear-oblong. Wight 
