Loranthus. pentandria monogynia. 551 



described; grows common on trees throughout Bengal. 

 Flowers all the year. 



Leaves generally opposite, though sometimes alternate, 

 and also three-fold, short-petioled, oblong, smooth, entire, of 

 a thick leathery texture, almost veinless; from two to three 

 inches long. Racemes, or rather spikes, axillary, or between 

 the leaves, or from the old axills, generally solitary, though 

 sometimes there are two or even three together, much short- 

 er than the leaves. Flowers opposite, from three to six pairs 

 on the spike, sessile, small, greenish orange colour. Bractes 

 no other than the perianth of the fruit. Calyx. Perianth of 

 the fruit inferior, two-leaved, the under and exterior cordate, 

 the inner two-toothed ; that of the flower no other than the 

 circular margin of the pit which receives the flower. Corol 

 one-petalled ; tube gibbous, six-sided. Border six-parted, 

 divisions alike, and cut equally deep, reflected. Filaments 

 six, erect, inserted into the base of the divisions of the corol. 

 Germ ovate. Style the length of the stamens. Stigma 

 large, glandular, naveled. Berry inferior, round, oval, size 

 of a pea, smooth, when ripe the pulp is yellow, clammy, and 

 elastic, which makes them adhere to the branches of trees 

 where they germinate, resting on three permanent calyciform 

 bractes and crowned with a ring where the corol stood 

 round the permanent base of the style, one-celled. Seeds 

 solitary, conform to the berry. Integument single, white, 

 tough, and clammy, marked with twelve whitish striae. 

 Perisperm conform to the seed, six-grooved, green. Embryo 

 central, inverse, straight, pale green, nearly as long as the 

 perisperm. Cotyledons two, linear-oblong. Plumula minute. 

 Radicle sub-cylindric, length of the cotyledons, superior. 



4. h.Jerrugineus. R. 



Young shoots as well as the .under side of the oval leaves 

 long, slender, tetrandrous, regular ; flower, fruit, and pedi- 

 cels clothed with much ferruginous pubescence. 



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