CXIT. LORANTHACE^. 545 



or obsolete. Petals 4-6, valvate, free or more or less connate in a tube 

 with spreading tips, often split clown one side. Stamens 4-6, adnate to 

 the petals ; filaments filiform or thickened ; anthers ovate-oblong or 

 linear, adnate or versatile, the cells parallel. Disk 0. Ovary inferior, 

 1-celled ; ovule solitary : style columnar, filiform (rarely twisted) ; 

 stigma entire, terminal, obtuse or capitate. Fruit a berry or drupe, 

 globose, ovoid or oblong. 8eed adnate to the pericarp ; testa 0; albumen 

 copious, fleshy or ; embryo usually fleshy. — Distrib. Mostly tropical ; 

 species about 350. 



Flowers without a pair of bracteoles wifchiu the bract. 

 Bract solitary, not forming an involucre nor cup. 

 Corolla 4-cleft. 



Flowers in glabrous spikes ; anthers oblong, continuous 

 with the filauieiits, distinctly 2-cellecT ; berry oroid. 



Flowers J-^ in. long 1. L. }\allichianns. 



Flowers ^-| in. long 2. L. ohtusatus. 



Flowers in axillary clusters or racemose, mealy-tomen- 

 tose ; calyx scarcely any, truncate ; anthers narrow, 

 indistinct ; fruit pyriform. 



Flowers pedicellate in subracemose fascicles, 1 in. 



long 3. L. Scu7'?'ula. 



Flowei-s subsessile, 1-3 together, f in. long 4. L. Stocksii. 



Corolla .5-cleft. 



Flowers villous or pubescent ; fruit ovoid ; calyx 



shghtly toothed , 5. L. gihhosus. 



Flowers glabrous. 

 Corolla-lobes longer than the tube, spirally coiled... 6. L. elasticu.i. 

 Corolla-lobes shorter than the tube, not spirally 

 coiled. 



Leaves less than 2 in. long, cuneate at base ; 



llowers in axillary fascicles 7. L. cuneatus. 



Leaves more than 2 in. long, rounded at base ; 



flowers in unilateral racemes 8. L. longiflorus. 



Bracts connate, forming a small cup below the ovai-y ; 



young branches 3-gonous 9. L. trigonus. 



Bracts forming a large canipanulate toothed involucre 10. L. lageniferus. 



Flowers with a pair of bracteoles within the bract. 



Corolla less than 1 in. long, cleft to below the middle, 



straight 11. L. caintcllatus. 



Corolla 1 in. and more long, cleft § the way down, slightly 



curved 12. L. loniccroidcs, 



1. Loranthus "Wallichianus, ScJmltes f. Syst. Veg. v. 7 (1829) 

 p. 100. Branches terete ; bark pale. Leaves opposite and alternate, 

 2|-4 by l^-2j in., coriaceous, elliptic, obtuse, penuiuerved, glabrous, 

 base acute ; petioles g-| in. long. Flowers in axillary fasciculate slender 

 glabrous racemes 1-3 in. long ; pedicels y^-g in. long : bract repre- 

 sented by a lateral spoon-shaped ciliate expansion of the pedicel. Flower 

 (including calyx and corolla) \-l in. long. Calyx globose, about Jjy in. 

 long ; limb annular, almost obsolete. Corolla red ; tube somewhat 

 angular ; limb 4-fid, the lobes ovate, acute. Fruit \ in. long, ovoid, 

 rugose. Fl. B. I. v. 5, p. 204 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 109 ; Wight, Icon, 

 t. 143 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 289 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. V. 12 (1899) p. 368.— Flowers : Apr.-July. 



KoNKAN : Law ! S. M. Country : PArva Ghat, Balzell ^- Gihson; Belgaum, Ritchie, 

 1074 ! Kanaka : Karwar, Woodrow ; parasitic on Memecylon edule and other trees, 

 common in the forests near Karwar, Talbot. — Distrib. India (W. Peninsula), 

 apparently endemic. 



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