ey ? 
386 LORANTHACE. 
Wall.! L. n. 6866. 
hills near Dindygul. 
1192. (17) L. elasticus (Desr.:) glabrous, dichotomous: branches terete : 
leaves sessile, oblong or ovate-lanceolate, usually attenuated with a blunt 
point at the apex and acute at the base, thick and coriaceous, obscurely 5- 
nerved ; two of the lateral nerves from the base, the other two from the mid- 
rib below the middle: flowers sessile or nearly so, fascicled around the knots 
of the branches: ovary with a solitary adpressed bractea at its base: limb of 
_ the calyx entire, cup-shaped: corolla infundibuliform, 5-cleft, one of the 
fissures deeper than the others; segments long, narrow-linear, elastically re- 
volute: limb before expansion tumid at the base, then tapering and forming 
a long sharp beak as long as the tube: anthers oblong-linear: fruit ovoid.— 
Desrousseaux in Lam. enc. meth. 8. p. 599 ; DC. prod. 4. p. 306 ; Spr. syst. 2. 
p. 181; Wall.! in Roxb. fl. Ind. (ed. Wall.) 2. p. 217; L.n.508; Wight! 
cat. n. 1250.— Rheed. Mal. 10. t. 3. 
Neelgherries ; Leschenault. Cunnawady and other 
Species not sufficiently known. 
+1193. (18) L. trigonus (W. & A.:) glabrous: branches acutely triangular: 
leaves somewhat verticillate in threes, petioled, oval, obtuse, obtuse or slight- 
ly cuneate at the base, coriaceous; petiole thick: peduncles lateral, very 
short, bearing a short almost umbel-shaped raceme of a few approximated 
pedicelled spreading flowers: bractea solitary under the fruit and close to 
it unilateral, ovate: limb of the calyx cupulate, irregularly and bluntly (5?-) 
toothed: berry obovoid.— Wight! cat. n. 1251. 
+1194. (19) L. biflorus (Desr.:) glabrous: branches terete: leaves pe 
tioled, ovate-roundish, thiekish: petioles channelled: peduncles solitary or 
in pairs, axillary, a little shorter than the petioles, bearing 2 flowers on pedi- 
cels about the length of the peduncle: bractea solitary under the ovary, and 
pius its base, lateral, ovate, short: limb of the calyx truncated: flower- - 
d slender, much curved, slightly clavate at the apex, covered with a thin 
rusty pubescence.— Desrousseaua, in Lam. ene. meth. 3. p. 600 ; DC. prod. : 
p. 302 ; Spr. syst. 2. p. 128. 
The number of stamens and structure of the corolla do not appear to T 
known; Schultes places it among some hexandrous American species : 
Candolle next to L. buddleioides, with which Desrousseaux himself points s 
an affinity ; no good character is given to separate it from that species, 27 
we would have therefore combined them, but among the numerous specimens 
before us, not one happens to agree precisely with the description. 
t 1195. (20) L. turbinatus (DC. :) glabrous : branches terete: leaves some- 
what alternate, shortly petioled, oval or oblong, obtuse or slightly acute; 
thick: peduncles axillary, much shorter than the leaf, 2-3-cleft : bractea 
ovate, solitary under the turbinate ovary: limb of the calyx unequally 
obtusely 5-cleft.—DC. prod. 4. p. 305. Neelgherries ; Leschenault.— 
If the calyx had. been 4-cleft instead of 5-cleft, we would have referred 
this without hesitation to L. buddleioides, var. :. 
T 1196. (21) L. rugulosus (Roth. :) glabrous : branches terete, ultimate 
ones compressed: leaves opposite or alternate, very shortly petioled, oblong- 
elliptical, obtuse, glaucous, rugulose-reticulated, with a smooth cartilaginous — 
margin: racemes axillary, oppone simple, shorter than the leaf; pe 
recurved: bractea solitary, lateral, orbicular, concave, pheaca the base 
the calyx and close pressed to it: calyx-limb truncated, slightly oblique, aoe 
with a minute tooth on one side: flower-bud terete: corolla tubular, g% — 
brous, gibbous about the middle, curved, 4-cleft; segments lance e 
a linear.— Roth, nov. sp. p. 194; Schult. syst. T. p. 1013 DC. 
= p. 1 . 
