Loranthus. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 187 
Stamens four; the pistillum as in the last. Berry top- 
shaped, one-seeded, 
3. L. globosus. R. 
Leaves opposite, oblong, smooth. Spikes axillary. Co- 
rols regular, six-cleft. Berries round-oval. 
Kanneli itti-kanni. Rheed. Mal. 10. t. 5. 
Beng. Chota-manda. 
A ramous, shrubby parasite, like the two species al- 
ready described; it is common on trees all over Bengal 
and flowers all the year. 
Leaves generally opposite, though sometimes alternate, 
and also three-fold, short-petioled, oblong, smooth, en- 
tire, of a thick leathery texture, almost veinless ; from 
two to three inches long. Racemes, (or rather spikes,) 
axillary, or between the leaves, or from the old axills ; 
generally solitary, though sometimes there are two, or 
even three together, much shorter than the leaves. Flow- 
ers opposite, from three to six pair in the spike, sessile, 
small, of a greenish-orange colour. Bractes no other than 
the perianth “of the fruit. Calyx ; perianth of the fruit 
inferior, two-leaved, the under and exterior cordate ; the 
inner two-toothed ; that of the flower is no other than the 
circular margin of the pit, which receives the flawer. Co- 
rolone-petalled ; tube gibbous, six-sided. - Border. six- 
parted ; divisions alike, and cut equally deep, reflected. 
Filaments six, erect, inserted into the base of the diyisi- 
ns of the corol, Germ ovate. Style length of the sta- 
mens, Stigma large, glandular, naveled. Berry inferior, 
round, oval, the size of a pea, smooth ; when ripe the pulp 
is yellow, clammy, and elastic, which makes it adhere 
sa the branches of trees where it terminates, resting on 
permanent calyciform bractes and crowned witha - 
) ring where the corol stood, round the permanent base of 
the Style, one-celled, Seed solitary, conform to the berry. 
tegument single, white, _ and clammy, nark 
