552 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. LorantflUS. 



Found by Mr. W. Roxburgh growing on trees in the for- 

 ests of Pulo Pinano-. 



5. L. involucratus. R. 



Leaves opposite, ovate-cordate, smooth. Umbel lets axil- 

 lary. Involucres four-leaved, four-flowered ; jloivers regu- 

 lar, pentandrous. 



A stout parasitical shrub, found on trees in the forests on 

 the eastern border of Bengal, where it blossoms great part of 

 the year. 



Brunches while young clothed with smooth, shining, dark- 

 brown bark. Leaves opposite, short-petioled, ovate and ovate- 

 cordate, sides often unequal, as in most of the plants of this 

 genus, entire, smooth on both sides; from three to four inches 

 long. Umbellets axillary, crowded, sub-sessilo, much shorter 

 than the leaves. Involucres four-leaved, four-flowered ; leaf- 

 lets ovate-lanceolate, smooth, entire. Floivers sessile, pretty 

 large, equalling the involucre. Calyx superior, short, five- 

 toothed, villous. Corol ; tube widening toward the mouth, 

 villous. Border regular, five-parted ; segments linear, revo- 

 lute. Filaments equalling the segments of the corol, and in- 

 serted on them below their middle. Anthers oval. Germ 

 oval, sericeous. Style rather longer than the corol. Stigma 

 two-lobed. 



6. L. ampullaceus. R. 



Leaves opposite, oblong, polished. Racemes axillary, sim- 

 ple. Flowers calycled, regular, hexandrous ; tube of the 

 corol gibbous. Berries long, oval. 



Found on trees in the forests of Silhet, but seems to prefer 

 the mango tree to all others. Flowers in the dry season, pro- 

 bably the whole year round. 



Stems as in our other Indian species, the size and shape 

 very uncertain, but numerous, bifid, trifid, or quadrifid, 

 smooth ; branches and branch lets spread in all directions. 

 Leaves opposite, short-petioled, oblong, entire, smooth, from 



