382 LORANTHACE X. LORANTHUS. 
at the apex. Anthers erect at the apex of the Jülament.—Symphyanthus, 
DC. 
*- Flowers with a solitary bractea under each: corolla tubular, 5-cleft to beyond the 
middle, the lobes recurved or reflexed, tube scarcely 5-angled, ventricose: an- 
thers erect. 
1179. (4) L. Neelgherrensis (W. & A. :) glabrous: branches terete, young 
ones obscurely and bluntly angled: leaves alternate, elliptie-oblong, shortl 
petioled, thick and somewhat fleshy, ultimate one of the branch (always ¢ 
orbicular-ovate : peduncles axillary, aggregated, very short, about the length 
of the petiole, bearing an umbel of 3-7 very shortly pedicelled flowers: 
bractea solitary under the ovary and close to it, lateral, ovate: margin of the 
calyx obscurely repand-toothed : corolla glabrous, ventricosely gibbous at 
the base, equally 5-cleft to beyond the middle ; segments cuneate-linear, re- 
curved.— Wight ! cat. n. 1932; Neelgherries. 
Of this we have only seen one specimen, and that very imperfect. 
are Flowers sessile, capitate, or decussated and forming a short spike, with 3 
roundish concave bracteas under the ovary : corolla tubular, 6- (or occasion- 
ally 5.) cleft; lobes linear: flower-buds terete or slightly angled. 
,1180. (5) L. loniceroides (Linn.:) glabrous: branches terete, young ones 
slightly 2-edged : leaves opposite, petioled, ovate- or oblong-lanceolate, acu- 
minated: peduncles opposite, axillary, solitary, about equal to the petiole, 
bearing at the apex a few and somewhat capitate or several and more or less 
spiked sessile flowers: bracteas 3 at the base of each ovary, roundish, acute, 
concave : margin of the calyx between tubular and cup-shaped, entire : corolla 
elongated, tubular, curved, slightly gibbous on one side, several times longer 
than the ovary and calyx, equally cleft into 6 (or sometimes 5) cuneate- 
linear spreading lobes: anthers linear.— Linn. sp. p. 478 ; DC. prod.4. p. 299; 
Spr. syst. 2. p. 131 ; Wall. in Roxb. Jl. Ind. (ed. Wail.) 2. p. 216 ; L. n.506.a; 
Wight! cat. n. 1233.—L. coriaceus, Desr. in Lam. enc. meth. 8. p. 591.—L. 
umbellatus, Heyne! in Roth, nov. sp. p. 192; DC. I. c. p. 816.—Rheed. Mal. 
7. t. 29.— — Courtallum. ; 
5 ugh described by several eminent botanists, there is scarcely one spe- 
cific character strictly accurate: thus Wallich describes the corolla with the 
limb cleft into 5 ents, while he says the flowers are hexandrous, and he 
attributes to each flower 4 bracteas: De Candolle says that the peduncles are 
longer! than the leaf, and that there are 4 bracteas under each head of 
flowers ; Schultes (syst. 7. p. 108), translating from Wallich into Latin, states 
the same thing, which leads us to suspect that neither of them understood 
Dr Wallich's description : Blume also appears to have taken up the same er- 
roneous idea, and thus induced De Candolle to refer the species to his section 
Involucrati instead of to Elytranthes. Unquestionably the best description 
is that given by Roth, although he only notices two bracteas to each flower. 
Rheede's Mal. 7. t. 29. is bad as to the stamens and description of the flower, 
but, we have no doubt, it belongs to this Species. 
1181. (6) L. capitellatus (W. &-A. :) glabrous: branches terete, young 
shoots compressed and two-edged: leaves opposite, oblong-lanceolate, 
tuse, attenuated at the base into a short petiole: petiole sharply keeled at 
the back: flowers sessile, capitate, few together, each with three roundish 
acute concave bracteas at the base ; heads axillary, sessile : limb of the calyx 
between tubular and cup-shaped, entire: flower-buds gibbous and nearly 
terete at the base, 6-angled upwards: corolla-tube short, infundibuliform, 
about a half longer than the ovary and calyx ; limb cleft into 6 equal cu- 
neate-linear spreading segments as long as the tube.— Wight ! cat. n. 1234.— 
AE seio, Wall.! L. n. 506. b.—— Malabar coast, on Artocarpus integri- 
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