1. Lobanthus.J 54. LOBANTHACEM. 



green split with 4 linear lobes £- T 3 ff " long, filaments bright 

 red. Fr. clavate J" stellate. 



Common throughout the area, chiefly on Woodfordia and Wendlandia. 



Fls. Nov.-Jany. Fr. Bec.-Jany. 



L, obtuse or sub-acute, base usually cuneate and decurrent on the 

 £4 V long petiole.' Sec. n. 4-5-prs. faint. Peduncles up to £" long^ Bract 

 minute ovate-acuminate. Calyculus minute entire. Per.-tuhe inflated 

 below. 



(When quite ripe the outer oovering of the fruit consisting of an 

 epidermis, a parenchymatous tissue with little chlorophyll and an inner 

 sheath of very fine cells becomes detached leaving "a somewhat 4-gonous 

 clavate body probably corresponding to the seed. This has an outer 

 transparent very small celled layer and an inner thicker tissue very rich in 

 chlorophyll which secretes the mucous). 



2. L. CordifoliuS) Wall. Ichac' banda, 8. 



As Sir J. D. Hooker remarks, this is scarcely more than 

 a variety -of L. scurrula, differing in its greater size, more 

 rounded and cordate leaves and the copious white tomentum, 

 which gives it a very different aspect from the ordinary state 

 of L. scurrula. 



Hazaribagh ; Manbhum, Camp. ? (Campbell's plant L. buddleioides, a 

 synonymn for this, may be L. scurrula, which he does not mention. The 

 vernacular name means the Loranthus whioh grows on the Woodfordia.) 



Fls. Bee. 



3. L. longiflorilS, Desr. Sum, K. ; Banda, 8., IT., etc. 

 A. shrub, glabrous (exc, sometimes the puberulons 



racemes). L. variable in shape and size, usually about 3-7*. 

 Fls. in axillary and extra axillary racemes 1-4" long. Peri- 

 anth 1-2" long slender red and orange with 5 linear-oblong 

 often green lobes. Fruit oblong J" glabrous crowned with 

 the calyculus. 



The commonest Loranthus, found on a large variety of trees including 

 the Sal. Fls. Nov.-Feby. 



4. L. globosus, Roxb. 



A quite glabrous shrub with elliptic-lanceolate sub-acute 

 or acuminate leaves* very obscurely nerved and 3-7 fls. |" 



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