Lovanthus.) ,  OXXXIL LORANTHACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) 217 
flowers 1 in. in sessile or peduncled axillary fascicles sessile or pedicelled, 
calyx-limb entire, corolla-tube rather inflated, lobes 5 linear much longer 
than the tube reflexed above the middle, fruit oblong. Wight Ic. t. 1020, 
and Spic. Neilgherr. t. 88; Thwaites Enum. 134; Zenk. Plant. Ind. t. 17. 
Nizan Hirs ; ascending to 7000 ft., Wight, &c. CEYLON ; Central Province, 
alt. 1-7000 ft., Walker, &e. 
Branches very stout, terete, smooth, or minutely cracked, not lenticellate, Leaves 
3-6 in, by 13-4 in., narrowed into the petiole, dark brown above and beneath j nerves 
Very few, raised on both surfaces ; petiole i-i in., very stout. Flowers fascicled on 
the nodes of the axils, sessile and peduncled together; bract variable; pedicels very 
short or Q. Calyx minute, ellipsoid or globose, limb cupular, margin thin hardly 
lobed. Corotla-tube very slender in bud, in flower straight, not split, lobes some- 
times all free, at others one or two are combined for half their length. Filaments 
short, anthers long. Style filiform, stigma capitate. Fruit à in, smooth.—The 
hervation varies much. Thwaites suggests that this may be a variety of L. elasticus, 
but it is very different. 
Var.? Clarkei ; flowers smaller $ in. corolla-lobes equal shorter more spathulate 
reflexed portion about 4 iu. —Ootamaeund, alt. 7000 ft., Clarke.—Amongst the very 
‘merous specimens of L. neelgherrensis that I have examined, none have such short 
and spathulate corolla-lobes as this, : 
1l. L. memecylifolius, Wight & Arn. Prodr. 383; quite glabrous, 
leaves Opposite and alternate petioled narrowly oblong or elliptic obtuse 
thic Y coriaceous, flowers 1-1} in. umbelled on short stout, axillary 
peduncles erect pedicelled, ovary cylindric-oblong, calyx-limb cupular 
obtusely 5-toothed or truncate, corolla straight, tube 5-angled split slightly 
Inflated above the middle, lobes 5 linear-lanceolate acuminate us long as the 
tube or longer, fruit oblong or pyriform. . 
Nizenrgt Hiris, alt. 8000 ft., Wight, Schmidt, &c. . 
Branches stout, terete,. brown, Leaves 1-3 in., dark brown and smooth when 
dry, narrowed into the very short petiole, flat, nerves faint, oblique. Umbels solitary 
or fascicled ; peduncle and pedicels very stout, 4-4 in.; bracts orbicular, very 
coriaceous, Ovary broad at the top, calyx-limb short. Colla scarlet, strict, erect, 
tate in bud, lobes reflexed for about half their length. Filaments much shorter 
than the anthers. Stigma capitate. Fruit i in. smooth, crowned by the cupular 
ea yx-limb.— Close] y allied to L. neelgherrensis, but the leaves are smaller, flowers 
ioci and fewer and larger, corolla not dilated at the base, and the calyx obtusely 
ed. 
42. L. sarcophyllus, Wall. in Wight 4 Arn. Prodr. 384, and Cat. 
6363; very stout, quite glabrous, leaves large alternate and opposite shortly 
Petioled, elliptic oblong or orbicular very thickly coriaceous obtuse, flowers 
l -li in. in short many-fld. racemes, calyx-limb cupular obtusely unequa 7 
obulate, corolla curved, tube narrow split dilated towards the base, lpbes 
‘near slender much longer than the tube. L. carnosus, Herb. Wight. 
Nitenrer Mrs. ; at Cumbum on a Ficus, Wight. 
i ; i i leaves 
abit of the large-leaved states of L. longiflorus with oblique nerves, but wave 
» uch thicker, calyx limb distinctly lobulate, and corolla-tube dilated below. Wight’s 
Pecimens ure the only ones I have seen. 
48. T. Crassus, Hook. f.; very stout, leaves | nate 
A thickly coriaceous Kd or Y blong obtuse, flowers fa in. in small 
Ty subsessile racemes densely furfuraceous pedicelled, ca a » 
papular quite entire, corolla straight funnel-shaped not split, equally c ei 
* ob low the middle into 5-6 lobes with long reflexed linear tips, fruit ovoid- 
i long. L. retúsus, Wall. Cat. 504, in part. 
arge alternate petioled 
