384 LORANTHACE X. LORANTHUS. 
tiole, coriaceous, alternate or somewhat opposite: peduncles 1-3 together, 
axillary or in the axils of the fallen leaves, short, about the length of the pe- 
tiole, bearing at the apex an umbel of 2-5 shortly pedicelled flowers ; bractea 
lateral, obliquely cupulate, close to the ovary: ovary cylindric-oblong: limb. 
of the calyx cup-shaped, irregularly and bluntly 5-toothed: flower-bud equal, 
5-angled, slightly tumid a little above the middle: corolla 5-cleft, one of the 
fissures considerably deeper than the others; lobes about equal to the tube, 
cuneate-linear, acuminated : anthers linear.— Wight ! cat. n. 1240. 
1185. (10) L. sarcophyllus (Wall.:) glabrous :. branches terete: leaves 
somewhat alternate, elliptic or obovate, obtuse, attenuated at the base into a 
short thick petiole, thick and fleshy: racemes 1-3 together, axillary or from 
the knots of the branches, spreading, 6-12-flowered: flowers pedicelled, 
drooping ; bractea minute, lateral, close to the short cylindrical ovary: limb 
of the calyx bluntly and irregularly 5-toothed : corolla fleshy, curved, 5-cleft, 
one of the fissures the longest; lobes very narrow, cuneate-linear, acumi- 
nated: anthers linear.— Wall.! L. n. 6863; Wight ! cat. n.1241.——Cumbum, 
on a species of Ficus. 
1186. (11) L. longiflorus (Desr.:) glabrous: branches terete: leaves usually 
opposite, or sometimes alternate, petioled, from linear to oblong-lanceolate, 
or ovate obtuse, upper ones sometimes retuse or slightly cordate at the base, 
coriaceous: racemes axillary, solitary or in pairs, erect or spreading, simple, 
many-flowered, much shorter than the leaves: flowers (yellow) shortly pedi- 
celled, often drooping ; bractea solitary, concave, oblique, close to the ovary : 
calyx-limb entire: corolla long, infundibuliform, gibbous on one side, curved ; 
limb before expansion swollen at the base, constricted above it, oblong up- 
wards, splitting into 5, linear, recurved, secund segments, one of the fissures 
twice as deep as the others: filaments sprinkled with short bristles ; anthers 
linear: fruit oblong.—Lonicera zeylanica, Gertn.? fr. 1. p. 197. t. 27.— 
æ; leaves ovate, or oval, or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or slightly cordate at the 
—Wight! cat. n. 1242.—L, ongiflorus, Desrousseaux in Lam. enc. meth. 
3. p. 498 ; Wall.! in Roxb. ft: Ind. (ed. Wall.) 2. p. 217 ; L. n. 507 ; DC. prod. 
4. p. 304; Spr. syst. 2. p. 132.—L. bicolor, Roxb. cor. 2. t. 139 ; ft. Ind. 1. 
P. 548, and 2. p. 185 ; (ed. Wall.) 2. p. 205 ; DC. l. c. p. 305 ; Spr. 1. c. p. 129. 
—L. Koenigianus, Agardh in Schult. syst. 7. p. 108; DC. I. c. p. 807.— . 
Mal. 10. t. 4.—8 ; leaves narrower, linear or linear-lanceolate, usually acute 
at the base; ovary sometimes pubescent.— Wight ! cat. n. 1243.— L. bicolor 
(narrow leaved), Roxb. 1. c.—L. Wightianus, Wall.! L. n. 6872.—y ; leaves 
narrow-linear, thick-coriaceous, often falcate. Wight! cat. n. 1244.—L. fal- 
qns Linn. suppl. p. 213; DC. prod. l. e. p. 305; Spr. l c. p. 129; Wall.! 
. n. 519. 
Between these varieties there are no certain limits, indeed agreeing as they 
do in so many parti , and differing only in the foliage, we would not 
have so separated them, had not preceding botanists, from a limited supply 
of specimens, attempted to give characters to many of our synonyms to serve 
for their discrimination as species. We believe the corolla in the living plant 
is always of a greenish yellow colour, but it frequently becomes red by dry- 
ing.—In justice to Linnsus, we ought to have adopted the specific name 
Jaleatus, but it is only applicable to an extreme state of the plant: that of 
Lamarck is less objectionable. 
1187. (12) L. amplexifolius (DC.:) glabrous: branches terete: leaves Op- —— 
posite, sessile, orbicular or ovate, obtuse, cordate at the base, coriaceous 1 we 
racemes axillary, solitary, many-flowered, erect or spreading, simple, 
than the leaves : flowers (purple) shortly pedicelled, often drooping ; bractea 
solitary, lateral, concave, orbicular, close to the ovary: calyx- b ve d 
si entire: corolla long, infundibuliform, gibbous on one side, curved 5° 
limb before expansion swollen at the base, constricted above it, oblong up- 
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