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 Loranthus.] ^ cxxxm. tomaNTHACEE, (J. D. Hooker.) 215 
throughout (racemes rarely puberulous), leaves alternate or opposite sessile 
or petioled orbicular oblong elliptic or linear obtuse thickly coriaceous, 
flowers 1-2} in. in axillary and supra-axillary racemes secund erect pedi- 
celled, calyx-limb cupular truncate entire, corolla slender curved split 
slightly dilated above the middle, lobes 5 short linear-oblong, fruit oblong. 
DC. Prodr. iv. 304; Roxb. Fl. Ind. Ed. Carey & Wall. n. 217; Wight 
Y Arn. Prodr. 384; Roxb. Cor. Pi. t. 139; Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 86; 
Dalz. d Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 110; Brandis For. Fl. 397; Kurz For. Fl, 321; 
Thwaites Enum. 134; Wall. Cat. 507; Wight Ic. t. 302; Gamble Man. 
Ind. Timb. 320. L. bicolor, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 548, ii. 185, and Ed. Carey & 
Wall. ii. 205, and Cor. Pl. t. 139 ; Wall. Cat. 499. L. Kcenigianus, Agardh 
in Schult. Syst. vii. 108; DC. L c. 307. L. Wightianus, Wall. Cat. 6872. 
It imbricatus and L., lineatus, Edgew. in Trans. Linn Soc. xx. 59.—Rheede 
Hort. Mal. x. t. 4. 
TROPICAL and TEMPERATE HrMALAYA, alt. 3-7500 ft., from Jamu to Bintan. 
ANGETIC PLAINS, from Oude eastward to ASSAM, and southward on plains an 
hills throughout both Peninsulas to TRAVANCORE and MALACCA. CEYLON, in the warm 
parts of the Island. . . 
A large bush; branches terete, usually smooth, dark or light grey, lenticellate e 
not. Leaves 3-10 by 3-5 in, infinitely variable in shape and veining, opaque an 
rown when dry ; petiole stout, 4-4 in. Racemes 1-4 in., solitary or fascie e i 
stout or slender, usually upcurved with upcurving flowers of variable length ; pact 
orbicular, cupular; pedicels stout or slender. Calyx hoary in Ceylon specimens, im 
quite entire. Corolla pink or red, with often green lobes, lower half of tu MM 
narrow, reflexed part of the lobes $+} the length of the tube. Filaments shor er an 
kon anthers, often glandular., Stigma capitate. Fruit à in., smooth, orowned wi 
the qupular calyx.—Of the many forms of this common and variable plant the following 
are the most remarkable, . 
Var. faleata, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 321; leaves linear 4-6 by 4+4 in. often TM 
flowers i31 in., calyx glabrous or white and seurfy, L. falcatus, Linn. f. “PP n 3 
DC. 1. c. 305; Wall. Cat.519. L. Wightianus, Wall. Cat. 6872, in part. L. lor g 
florus y., Wight & Arn. l. c.—Deccan Peninsula and Ceylon.—The name of this vari ty 
ae the earliest for the species, but is very inapplicable, and has hence p 
ide by general consent, : nr Fy 
ar. amplexifolia, Thwaites Enum. 134; leaves large sessile 4-7 in. diam, orhi 
cular- or oblong-cordate amplexicaul. L. amplexifolius, DC. l.c.; Wig RE ea and 
C ah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 86. L. amplexicaulis, Wall. Cat. 520.—Deccan rening 
*y'on.— Inflorescence often terminal. : E 
Peni uke bescene ; peduncle pedicels calyx and corolla iu bud pubescent.—Deccan 
Insula, 
36. ZB. lonchiphyllus, Thwaités Enum. 418; very robust, quite gla- 
brous, leaves opposite and alternate subsessile very coriaceous ovat ? acute 
or acuminate strongly penninerved bullate, bract minute, flowers babe very 
al ortly peduncled fascicles pedicelled, calyx-limb entire, on to the base 
y ender below gibbously inflated above the middle split nearly to , 
Pes 5 linear much shorter than the tube, fruit ovoid. 
Crow; in the Ambagamowa District, Thwaites. 
1 Branches very thick, terete, bark pale smooth or lenticellate. Leaves 4-6 by 
+ in., pale brown when dry, margin recurved, base rounded or su cor jim 
ie ny arching deeply sunk and anastomosing ; petiole 4-4 in., Mu 5 rved. Style 
°w in a fascicle. Calyx small, bract subacute. Corolla slightly j llata leaves 
slender, stigma capitate. Fruit } in. long.—The strongly nerved and bullate lez 
he only specimen I have seen are marked characters. 
97. Be ele ans, Wall. in DC. Prodr. iv. 304, and Cat. 530; very 
robuistyglabrous, loaves opposite and alternate very shortly petioled elliptic 
