62 LORANTHACEZ. [ LoraNnTHUS. 
linear, reflexed from the middle. Ovary urceolate, rusty-pubescent. 
Fruit } in. long, ovoid, truncate, brown when ripe. 
Dehra Dun, occasionally met with in the forests (Kanjilal); Siwalik 
range in the Timli Pass (Griffith). Flowers May-July. DistTRIB. : 
Outer Himalayan ranges from the Jumna to Sikkim, ascending to 
4,000 ft. ; also in Assam, the Khasia Hills and in Chittagong. 
2, L. pulverulentus, Wall. in Roxb. Fl. Ind. (ed. Carey and Wall.) 
di, 221; Brandis For. Fl. 396; Ind. Trees 549; F. B. I. v, 211; 
Kanjilal For. Fl. (ed. 2), 337 ; Gamble Man. 582 ; Prain Beng. 
Pl. 911. 
A robust branch-parasite ; branchlets and young leaves clothed with 
white flocculent fugacious mealy tomentum. Leaves opposite, long- 
petioled, 2-8 in. long, broadly ovate, acute or obtuse, glabrous, dark- 
brown when dry; nerves distinct, arching. Racemes solitary or in 
fascicles, 4-21 in. long ; bracts minute. Flowers about 1 in. long, on 
long pedicels, scurfily white-tomentose. Calyzx-limb none. Corolla 
slender, curved, green when fresh, cream-coloured when dry ; 
tube terete, split above ; lobes 4, connate. Fruit clavate, mealy. 
Forests of Dehra Dun and Saharanpur, and in the Sub-Himalayan 
tracts eastwards ; often found on dhdk, shisham and on other trees 
Flowers Dec.-June. Distris.: Subtropical Himalaya, from Chamba 
and Garhwal to Bhutan, up to 3,000 ft., also in N. Bengal and in the 
C. Provinces. 
3. L. Seurrula, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 472; Roxb. Fl. Ind. 1, 550 ; 
F.B. I. v, 208; Kanjilal For. Fl. (ed. 2), 336; Gamble Man. 
582; Prain Beng. Pl. 911 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. vi, 546 ; Brandis Ind. 
Trees 549. 
A large bushy branch-parasite, very variable. Branches terete ; bark 
often copiously lenticellate ; young parts rusty-tomentose. Leaves 
opposite, sessile or stalked, coriaceous, 14-3 in. long, less than 3 in. 
wide, elliptic or ovate-oblong, obtuse, glabrous or nearly so above, 
more or less rusty-tomentose beneath, or subglabrous beneath (when 
mature); base sub-acute or rounded, rarely sub-cordate. Flowers 
1 1 in. long, arranged in axillary short-peduncled rusty or grey-tomen- 
tose sub-racemose fascicles ; pedicels slender; buds clavate ; bracts 
minute, obliquely ovate, concave, tomentose. Calyx subcuneate ; 
limb truncate, very short. Corolla greenish-yellow, tomentose ; lobes 
4, narrow, acute. Fruit }-1 in. long, pyriform, tomentose. Albumen 
pink, obtusely quadrangular at the radicle end, the other end termina- 
ting in a hard elongated point, surrounded by a green sticky layer ; 
