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6. L. ampullacens. R. 



leaves opposite, obloiif:^, polished. Racemes axillary, 

 simple. Flowers calycled, regular, liexaiidrous ; tube of 

 the corol gibbous. Berries long-oval. 



Found on trees in the forests of Silhet, but seeming to 

 prefer the mango trees to all others. Flowering time the 

 dry season, probably the whole year round. 



Stem as in our other Indian parasites, the size and 

 shape very uncertain, but numerous from two to four- 

 cleft ; smooth branches and branchlets spread in all di- 

 rections. Leaves opposite, short petioled, oblong, entire, 

 smooth, from three to four inches long, and generally less 

 than two in breadth. Racemes axillary, solitary, or in 

 pairs, much shorter than the leaves. Flowers opposite, 

 short-pedicelled, pretty large, of a greenish yellow colour. 

 Bractes oval, one at the base of each pedicel, and two 

 pressing the base of the germ, like an inferior bilabiate ca- 

 lyx. Calyx superior, entire, rotate. Corol regular ; tube 

 gibbous ; border six-cleft ; divisions revolute, somewhat 

 spatulate. Filaments six, from the mouth of the tube 

 of the corol, the length of its segments. Anthers ovate. 

 Gei'm inferior, one-celled, containing one ovula attach- 

 ed to the top of the cell. Style longer than the corol. 

 Stigma large. Berry inferior, long-oval, smooth, yellow, 

 the size of a currant, one-celled- Pulp pale yellow, and 

 very clammy. 6'eec? solitary, ovate. Integuments two ; the 

 exterior one marked with six longitudinal iSbres ,- the in- 

 ner one membranaceous. Peiisperm conform to the seed, 

 six-grooved, green. Embryo cylindric, inverse. Cotyle- 

 dons short, semicylindric. Radicle cylindric, with a turbi- 

 nate apex, rising above the perisperm, inverse. 



7. L, clavatus. R. 



Leaves opposite, broad-lanceolate. Flowers axillary, 

 few together, tetrandrous. Corals irregular, ibur-cleft ; 

 berries clavate. 



