Loranthus. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 189 
~ 6. L. ampullaceus. R. 
Leaves opposite, oblong, polished. Racemes axillary, 
simple. Flowers calycled, regular, hexandrous ; tube of 
the coro] gibbous. Berries long-oval. 
Found on trees in the forests of Silhet, but seeming to 
prefer the mango trees to all others. Flowering time the © 
dry season, probably the whole year round. 
Stem as in our other Indian parasites, the size and 
shape very uncertain, but numerous from two to four- 
cleft ; smooth branches and branchlets spread in all di- 
rections. Leaves opposite, short petioled, oblong, entire, 
smooth, from three to four inches long, and generally less 
than two in breadth. Racemes axillary, solitary, or in 
pairs, much shorter than the leaves. Flowers ‘opposite, 
short-pedicelled, pretty large, ofa greenish yellow colour, 
Bracies oval, one at the base of each pedicel, and two 
pressing the base of the germ, like an inferior bilabiate ca- 
lyx. Calyx supérior, entire, rotate. Corol regular ; tube 
sibbous ; border six-cleft ; divisions revolute, somewhat 
Spatulate. Filaments six, from the mouth of the tube 
of the corol, the length of its segments. Anthers ovate. 
Germ inferior, one-celled, .containing one ovula attach- 
ed to the top of the cell. | Style longer than the corol. 
Stigma large. Berry inferior, long-oval, smooth, yellow, 
the size of a currant, one-celled- Pulp pale yellow, and 
very clammy. Seed solitary, ovate. Integuments two; the 
exterior one marked with six longitudinal fibres; the in- 
ner one membranaceous. Perisperm conform to the seed, 
Six-grooved, green. Embryo cylindric, inverse. Cotyle- 
dons short, semicylindric. Radicle cylindric, with a turbi- 
nate apex, rising above the perisperm, inverse. 
7. L. clavatus. R. 
Leaves opposite, broad-lanceolate. Flowers axillary, 
few together, tetrandrous. Corols irregular, four-cleft ; 
clavate. . oA has 
