Loranthus. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIAs 553 
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, greenish yellow. Bractes oval, one at the:base of each 
pedicel, and two pressing the base of the germ like an inferi- 
or, bilabiate, calyx. Calyx superior, entire, rotate, Corol 
regular; tube gibbous; border six-cleft ; divisions. revolute, 
somewhat spatulate. Filaments six, from the mouth of the 
tube of the corol, length of its segments, . Anthers ovate. 
Germ inferior, one-celled, and containing one ovule attached 
tothe top of the cell. Style longer than the corol, Stigma 
large. Berry inferior, long-oval, smooth, yellow, size of a 
currant, one-celled: Pulp pale yellow, very clammy, Seeds 
solitary, ovate. Inteyuments two ; exterior marked with six. 
~ dongitudinal fibres; inner membranaceous. Perisperm ¢on- 
form to the seed, six-grooved, green. Embryo cylindric, 
inverse, Cotyledons short, semi-cylindric. Radiele cylindric, 
with a tarbinate apne aoee above me Sas inverse. 
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Leaves opposite, ssenididanaaslanee Siew isctieed, fow 
together, tetrandrous; corods irregular, four-cleft; berries 
clavate. 
A delicate, shrubby parasite ; found in the Silhet district 
bid on Averrhoa: Carambola. 
8. L. pentapetalus. R. 
«Leaves opposite, from lanceolate to oval-cordate, and - 
Tiqualy attenuate smooth. atime ax Ula ieee: 
A Laie, very ramous, shrubby Splits Sobdagiomringidh 
various tees in the forests of Silhet. ee 
the ning of the rainsin Jane. 
_ Branches and branchlets eat sed nick: ‘aaetili 
Leaves opposite, petioled, from lanceolate to ovate-cordate, 
obliquely attenuate from the middle to the apex, entire, 
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