LORANTHACE.E. 355 



alternate, sub-opposite, or in threes, lanceolate to ovate, 

 entire, quite glabrous, leathery and tough : midrib 

 slightly raised on both sides : nerves obscure. Flowers 

 in crimson scarlet umbels or short corymbose spikes, 

 on short peduncles of % inch, bunched in the axils of, 

 mostly, fallen leaves. Pedicel i/ioinch : bract 1/30 inch: 

 ovary 1/12 inch, top-shaped, contracted below the very 

 short entire calyx-limb. Corolla I inch, scarlet ; tube J^ 

 inch, inflated at or below the middle ; segments five, 

 twice as long, separating first close above the tube, 

 later curling back and turning an orange colour inside. 

 Style light green with conspicuous red capitate stigmas. 

 t. 233. Wight Ic. t. 1020, Sp. Nilg. t. 88. 



In the figure : a withered corolla slipped off and still held 

 by the style ; b a full-grown bud ; c opening bud ; d fully 

 opened flower ; e bunch of fruits. 



Nilgiris : Ootacamund to Neduwattum, flowering March. 

 Fyson 2302. 



Gen. Dist. Also Ceylon. 



Loranthus memecylifolius Wight and Arnott ; Herb. 

 Wight 23 ! ; F.B.L v 217, I 41. Branchlets stout. Leaves 

 alternate, thick and firm, oblong or elliptic, obtuse, 

 narrowed to the very short stalk. Flowers three or more, 

 on peduncles of % inch, which are again in clusters of 

 one to four at a node. Bract small : bracteoles absent. 

 Corolla I to l^ inches, scarlet and yellowish ; lobes 

 slender. Anthers linear, longer than the filaments. 



Nilgiris : near Ootacamund. Pulneys : Bearshola, Kodai- 

 kanal ; but rrostly below our level, at 5,500 feet. Bourne 293, 161. 



Loranthus loniccroides Linn, ; F.B.I, v 221, I 54. 

 Distinguished among our species by the large flowers 

 with three equal bracts, rich red reflexed petals, and long 

 exserted stamens. Branches stout with wrinkled corky 

 bark. Leaves opposite. Stalk ^ inch. Blade ovate 

 or elliptic-oblong, usually obtuse. Flowers in cymose 

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