218 CXXXII. LORANTHACEH. (J. D. Hooker) (Loranthus. 
SINGAPORE, Wallich. i . 
Branches terete, grey, densely lenticellate. Leaves 3-7 by 14-4 in., dark brown 
and opaque when dry on both surfaces; nerves broad, distinct ; petiole very stout, 
4 in. Racemes 4 in.; pedicels very short; bracts orbicular, cupular. _Calga-tabe 
globose, limb truncate. Corolla-lobes linear from a cuneate base, reflexed for hal 
their length. Anthers linear, longer than the filament. Stigma capitate. “Fruit 
(young) 4 in. long, crowned with the cupular calyx-limb.—I have seen only Wallich’s 
specimens of this very fine species which are attached to two sheets with L. retusus, 
Jack, from which they differ entirely in habit, in the texture form and colour of the 
leaves, and in the unibracteate and scurfy much shorter flowers. The specimens 0 
L. retusus are flowerless. 
Sect. VI. Tolypanthus.  F/owersininvolucrate fascicles, 1-bracteate, 
ebracteolate ; bracts much broader than the flowers, free or connate into & 
bell-shaped involucre. 
44. L. involucratus, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 552, ii. 188, and Ed. Cary 
& Wall.-ii. 208; puberulous,. leaves opposite and alternate long-petiol : 
elliptic ovate or cordate obtuse, involucre of 4 ovate free bracts in a whor 
equalling the 4 laxly villous sessile flowers, calyx-limb 4-lobed, corolla 4 inj, 
tube straight cleft to the middle into 5 linear lobes with recurved tips. 
Prodr. iv. 298; Wall. Cat. 501; Griff. Motul. iv. 632. 
` SIKKIM HIMALAYA; alt. 2-3000 ft., J. D. H., Clarke. Assam, CACHAR, SILHET 
and Knuasra Mrs., Wallich, Griffith, &c. th 
Branchés slender, young tomentose, old woody terete with dark-brown smoo 
bark and large lenticels. Leaves 4-7 in., thin, almost membranous, base ace 
nerves very slender; petiole j-1 in. Clusters of flowers solitary or fascicled, sesste 
or shortly peduncled ; bracts leafy, 4 in. Calyzx-tube oblong, limb cleft to the base. 
Corolia-tube rather inflated below, lobes recurved for about half their length. Fila- 
ments shorter than the oblong-linear anthers. Style very stout, stigma large, 
capitate, obscurely lobed. The var. hebecladus, Wall., has-no characters that I can 
recognize. . 
45. L- Gardner Thwaites Enum. 133; very stout, glabrous, ree 
opposite and alternate petioled ovate or oblong obtuse, involucre o 1 
ovate free bracts in a whorl much shorter than the 5-6 glabrous sessie 
flowers, calyx-limb truncate, corolla 3 in., tube straight cleft into 5 linear- 
oblong lobes recurved above the middle. 
CEYLON ; at Hantani, alt. 3000 ft, Gardner. in 
Branches very stout; bark smooth, red-brown, lenticels few. Leaves ose 
coriaceous, greenish-brown above, red-brown beneath; midrib strong, nerves ^ ek 
petiole 1-4 in. Clusters of flowers sessile on the branches ; bracts 4-3 in., ob h he 
nerves reticulate, Ovary very short; calyx-limb annular, thickened. Corolla- rs 
straight, glabrous, not dilated, sometimes bilabiate, lobes 4 the length of the bud 
Filaments subulate, as long as the linear-oblong caducous anthers; stigma capa 
Fruit (young), ellipsoid. 
46. L. lageniferus, Wight Ic. t. 306; glabrous, leaves opposite o 
alternate shortly petioled orbicular or oblong base rounded acute or ra : 
date, involucre large bell-shaped 5-lobed of 5 connate bracts much, sho lla 
than the 5 glabrous or hoary sessile flowers, calyx-limb 5-toothed, P]. 80; 
13-2 in., lobes 5 very short oblong-lanceolate. Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 95; 
Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 110; Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 229, 230. 
Hills of the Concay, Graham, Law. MALABAR, Wight. Leaves 
Branches stout or slender; bark dark brown, smooth, lenticels few large- ded 
3-4 in., rather thin, and shining above, with short petioles and cordate or roun 
bases in Malabar specimens, more oblong and coriaceous with acute bases in Con 
