LORANTHUS. | LORANTHACE. 61 
Corolla gamopetalous, 4-5 lobed or-partite, the 
tube split above; anther-cells indistinct ; 
flowers nearly always mealy or scurfy :— 
Corolla 4-fid.; calyx hardly produced above 
the ovary; leaves mealy or scurfy on the 
lower and usually also on the upper sur- 
face :— 
Fruit mealy, clavate; young shoots and 
leaves covered with flocculent white fuga- 
cious mealy tomentum; flowers long- 
pedicelled in solitary or fascicled racemes, 
scurfy white-tomentose .. ‘ ; . 2. DL. pulverulentus.. 
Fruit tomentose, pyriform; young shoots 
and leaves covered with short soft rusty or 
white scurfy tomentum :— 
Leaves less than 3 in. wide, sessile or 
shortly petioled ; base cuneate or round- 
ed, rarely subcordate, appressed tomen- 
tose or glabrate beneath . : . 38. L. Scurrula.. 
Leaves large, exceeding 3 in. in width, 
orbicular or broadly ovate; base cor- 
date or rounded, densely tomentose 
beneath ; petioles long : . . 4. L. cordifolius.. 
Corolla 5-fid. ; calyx distinctly produced above 
the ovary; leaves and flowers glabrous ; 
fruit oblong . é, : ) , . od. L. longiflorus. 
-L, ligustrinus, Wall. in Roxb. Fl. Ind. (ed. Carey and Wall.) 
ti, 219 ; Don. Prod. 143 ; Brandis For. Fl. 395 ; Ind. Trees 549 ; 
F. B. I. v, 207 ; Kanjilal For. Fl. (ed. 2), 336 ; Gamble Man. 582 ; 
Prain Beng. Pl. 811. 
A parasitic shrub, or sometimes a small terrestrial tree parasitic on 
roots ; young shoots and inflorescence rusty-pubescent ; bark pale- 
coloured, closely lenticellate. Leaves glabrous, opposite or the upper 
alternate, 14-24 in. long, lanceolate, obtuse acute or acuminate, pen- 
ninerved, brown or black when dry, thinly coriaceous ; nerves obscure ;; 
base acute ; petioles }-} in. Racemes axillary, single or in pairs, }-in. 
long. Flowers 4-merous, }-in. long ; pedicels very short ; buds sub- 
terete, swollen at the base; bracts rather large, orbicular, Calyz- 
limb entire. Corolla pink outside, deep-red within. Petals 4, free,. 
