' 186 HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Loranthus, 
very well; all that part of the branch of the tree above 
where it grows, becomes sickly, and soon perishes. 
This species differs from Gertner’s Lonicera zeylanica, 
in being without the calyx of the fruit, and having only 
five parts in the corol, &c. but in the raceme they agree. 
' Nor can I reconcile it to be L. falcatus of the supplemen- 
tum, nor L. loniceroides of Linnzeus, for here the inflores- 
cence bears no resemblance to an involucred umbel. Nei- 
ther can it be L. pentandra, as there the leaves are alter- 
nate, with petioles nearly as long as the racemes, in 
short I cannot well reconcile it to any of the hitherto des- 
cribed species. It unites the two bapa of Loranthus 
and Lonicera. 
In Bengal I have found it with leaves from five to six 
inches long, and from four to five broad, 
2. L. scurrula. Willd. 2. 232. Corom, pl. 2: N. 140, 
Leaves opposite, ovate, underneath downy. Flowers 
axillary, fascicled. Corol sreegmiars® four-cleft. Stamens 
four. Berries turbinate. 
The natives have no other name for this than Wodi= 
“It is a parasiatical shrub, but smaller considerably 
than the last, and much scarcer ; it grows upon branches 
of trees in the same manner, and flowers aywing the nay 
season. Me 
_ Leaves opposite, petioled, cordate, scolloped, sincatah 
with soft white down underneath ; about two inches long, 
and one anda half broad. Peduncles numerous, collected 
in the axills, one or more flowered. Flowers considerably © 
smaller than in the last, a rusty grey colour, and coyer- 
ed with grey, farinaceous dust, Bractes one, pressing on ’ 
the germ, as in the last species. Calyx of the fruit no other. 
than the bracte of the flower, as in the former. Corol one- 
petalled. Tube swelled towards the base. Border four+ 
parted ; upper fissure deepest ; divisions linear, reflexed- 
