228 BURMA, ITS PEOPLE AND PRODUGTIO'XS. 



rarely ■wanting. Stamens as many as petals, opposite to and usually inserted on them. 

 Filaments more or less adnate at the base. ^>(YAe/s basifixed, adnate, or dorsifixed, some- 

 times versatile, opening by longitudinal slits or by pores. Ocary inferioi-, adnate 

 to the calyx, and forming one mass of which only the upper part protrudes a little, 

 1-2-celled witli 1 to 3 erect ovules, usually not perceptible till the flowering is past. 

 Style filiform, or thick with a simple stigma. Fruit an indehisoeut viscid-fleshy berry 

 or cb'upe, with a single or 1-seeded putamen. Alhumen flesliy. Cotyhduiu 2-4, semi- 

 terete, fleshy. Embryo fungiform, straight, with a superior radicle. Parasiticid 

 shrubs, usually much-branclied, very rarely terrestrial shrubs or trees, with opposite, 

 or rarely alternate simple leaves ; sometimes tlie leaves reduced to mere scales, or 

 wanting. Bracts usually present, rarely wanting. Bractlets 2, close under the 

 flower, concave or united in a cup, sometimes wanting. 



All the species are more or less injurious to trees, on account of tlicir parasitism. 

 The bark is usually astringent. Bird-lime is made from the berries of mistletoe and 

 several Loranthi. 



LonANinrs, Limiaiis. 



Flowers hermaphrodite. Corolla well developed, the lobes more or less united 

 (rarely free). Style filiform, with a terminal stigma. Albumen perforated. 



Kyi-boung. Genetic. 



* Bracts large, leaf-like, foriiiing either a free 4-G learid ineolucre, or united in a 

 monopliyllous one. 



L. iNVOLUCKATus, Eoxb. Chittagong. 



Leaves glabrous, calyx tawny-tomentose, corolla whitish hairy, involucre 

 4-fl.owered and 4-leaved, the leaflets free and as long as the flowers. 



** Bracts minute or small, supporting each single flou-er. 



\ Each flower 3 hractrd, i.e. 1 bract and 2 bractlets, free or united at the base. 



-\- Corolla G-lobed, the tube inflated, short and straight. 



X Flowers sessile, in short spikes. 

 L. GLOBOsus, Eoxb. Chittagong, Pegu and Tenasserim. 



Corolla gTeenish-white, 5 lines long. From the base arceolate-inflated. 



L. SDBGLOBOSUS, D.C. 



Like the last, but corolla i an inch long, and the leaves narrower and more 

 coriaceous. It is probably a sessile-flowered variety of the next si^ecies (Kurz). 



X X Flowers pedicelled on short racemes. 



L. AMPuixACEus, Eoxb. Martaban and Tenasserim. 



Corolla greenish-purple, tlie tube angular, upwards under the limb inflated. 



■\--\- Corolla 5-lobcd, straight or cuned. 



L. BR.i.NDisiANUs, Kz. Martabau, over 3000 feet. 



Leaves not glaucous beneath. Corolla straight, and lu-ceolate-inflatcd, nearly an 

 inch long. Eacemes glabrous, poor-flowered, cymose at apex. 



L. HTPOGLAUCUS, Kz. 



Leaves as in the last, but glaucous beneath, flowers liy 2- or 3-elu«tered, on short 

 glabrous peduncles. Corolla curved and slightly inflated, Ig- to 1 j inches long. 



L. roHMosus, Bl. Tenasserim. 



Leaves one coloured and glossy on both sides. Corolla 2-3 inches long, curved 

 and slightly inflated. Cymes reduced, usually 2-flowered, puberulous. 



J J Each flower with a single bract only, or the bract sometimes obsolete. 



-\- Petals united into a tubular corolla. 



X Flowers A-meruus, the corolla usually slit laterally. Berries obconical to pear- 

 shaped. 



