552 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Loranthus. 
Found by Mr. W. Roxburgh growing on trees in the sp 
ests of Pulo Pinang. bed 
» 6.1L. mvolueratus. R. Ag des 
Leaves opposite, ovate-cordate, smooth. Umbellets axil- 
lary. Involucres four-leaved, four-flowered ; flowers — 
lar, pentandrous, . 
A stout parasitical shrub, found on trees in the Petectt 
' the eastern border of Bengal, where it blossoms — _ of 
the year. 
* Branches while young clothed with smooth, abschinay eric 
bakivietoemdis Eeaves opposite, short-petioled, ovate and ovate- 
cordate, sides often unequal, as’ in most of the plants of this 
genus, entire, smooth on both sides ; from three to four inches 
long. Umbellets axillary, crowded, sub-sessile, much shorter . 
than the leaves. Involucres four-leaved, four-flowered ; leaf= 
lets ovate-lanceolate, smooth, entire. #lowers sessile, pretty 
large, equalling the involucre. » Calyx superior, short, five> 
toothed, villous, Corol; tube widening toward the mouth, 
villous. Border regular, five-parted ; segments linear, revo- 
lute. Filaments equalling the segments of the corol, and in+ 
serted on°them below their middle. Anthers oval. Germ 
oval, sericeous. ‘Style rather sisi than the corol. —_ 
two-lobed. - sels ys 
6. L. ampulacns. R. 
ple. > Flowers uadyeied; aeestiog hexandrous; tube ot the 
corol gibbous. Berries long, oval. . “0S 
Found on trees in the forests of Silhet, but seems to piehit 
the mango tree to all others, Flowers in the ars somes aa 
= the whole year round, sah 
Stems as in our other Indian species, the size aoe eke 
‘very uncertain, but numerous, bifid, trifid,. or -quadifid, 
— > arora sere eee spre n-all | 
