Loranthus. hexandria monogynia. 187 



Stamens four ; the pistillum as in the last. Berry top- 

 shaped, one-seeded. 



3. L. globosus. R. 



Leaves opposite, oblong, smooth. Spikes axillary. Co' 

 rols regular, six-cleft. Berries round-oval. 



Kanneli itti-kanni. Rheed. Mai. 10. t. 5. 



Beng. Chota-manda. 



A ramous, shrubby parasite, like the two species al- 

 ready described ; it is common on trees all over Bengal 

 and flowers all the year. 



Leaves generally opposite, though sometimes alternate, 

 and also three-fold, short-petioled, oblong, smooth, en- 

 tire, of a thick leathery texture, almost veinless ; from 

 tv^^o 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 shorter than the leaves. Flow- 

 ers opposite, from three to six pair in the spike, sessile, 

 small, of a 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 

 in7ier two-toothed ; that of the flower is no other than the 

 circular margin of the pit, which receives the flower. Co- 

 re/ one-petalled ; <?(&e gibbous, six-sided. Border six- 

 parted ; divisions alike, and cut equally deep, reflected. 

 Filaments six, erect, inserted into the base of the divisi- 

 ons of the corol. Germ ovate. Style length of the sta- 

 mens. Stigma large, glandular, naveled. Berry inferior, 

 round, oval, the size of a pea, smooth ; when ripe the pulp 

 is yellow, clammy, and elastic, which makes it adhere 

 to the branches of trees where it terminates, resting on 

 three permanent calyciform bractes and crowned with a 

 ring where the corol stood, round the permanent base of 

 the style, one-celled. Seed solitary, conform to the berry. 

 Integument single, white, tough, and clammy, marked 



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