2. Opilia.] 53. 0LACACE2E. 



Calyx-tube nearly obsolete, annular. Filaments 5 veiy 

 slender alternating with 5 large green fleshy dise lobes. Fr. 

 globose or ellipsoid, tomentose (at least when young). 



Singbhum, Saranda forest in open grassy places. Santal Parganahs 

 (Kuskia, Gamble). Fls. April-May. Fr. July. 



L. H-4" long mostly acuminate, rather coriaceous, with distinct fino 

 and irregular sec. n. usually, over 5 pairs, tertiaries distinct reticulate. 

 Petiole T Vi"* Racemes solitary or clustered with pubescent or tomentose 

 rachis. Pedicels £''. Tepals 5 yellowish. St. opposite the tepals. Anths. 

 versatile. Drupe about f w pedicelled. 



3. Cansjera, Juss. 

 1. C. Rheedii, Gmel. 



A large, usually scandent, shrub 1 with pubescent, sometimes 

 very green and lenticellate, branches and shining ovate or 

 lanceolate- ovate leaves. Fls. very small yellowish sessile 

 tomentose, subtended by minute subulate bracts on tomentose 

 spikes f-1" long. Calyx- tube obsolete. Filaments 4-5 slender 

 slightly adnate to the perianth-tube, alternating with 4-5 

 subulate staminodes (or disc lobes). Fr. a fleshy scarlet 

 ellipsoid drupe with thin hard endocarp. 



Along ravines and near water. Singhbhum and S. P. (east of 

 Chandna). Monghyr. Fls. Nov.'Dec. Fr. April-May. 



L. 1|" by I" to 4£" by 2", mostly acuminate, often minutely translucent- 

 dotted, somewhat puberulous beneath when young. Sec. n. rarely over 5 

 pairs, of which the first 1 2 prs. 'lose to the often oblique base, tertiaries 

 very indistinct. Petiole tVs"' Fta. 2-sexual. Perianth tubular-campanu- 

 late £ " long with 4-5 recurved lobes. Drupe J-i" sessile (it often appears 

 long-peduncled from only a single terminal flower at the end of the spike 

 developing fruit). 



Fam. 54. LORANTHACEiE. 



Green parasitic shrubs attaching themselves by means of 

 haustoria to the branches of other woody plants, with opp. 

 or alt. simple entire leaves, or leaves reduced to scales and 



1 A root parasite, vide loo. cit. Vol. II, No. 5. 

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