LoraNTHUvs.] LORANTHACES. ; ee 
embryo green, fusiform ; radicle not distinguishable from the tigellus 
(Talbot in Trees Bomb. ed. 2, p. 289). 
Siwalik range (Kanjilal), and eastwards along the Sub-Himalayan 
tracts. Flowers during the cold season. Distris.: Throughout 
the greater portion of India (except the Punjab and Sind), extend- 
ing to Ceylon and the Malay Peninsula and Islands. 
4. L. cordifolius, Wall. in Roxb. Fl. Ind. (ed. Carey and Wall.) 
ii, 222 ; Don Prod. 143 ; Brandis For. Fl. 396; Ind. Trees 549 ; 
F. B. I. v, 209 ; Kanjilal For. Fl. (ed. 2), 337 ; Collett Fl. Siml. 
438 ; Prain Beng. Pl. 911. 
A stout branch-parasite ; young shoots and leaves covered with soft 
rusty or white scurfy tomentum. Leaves opposite, orbicular or 
broadly ovate, exceeding 3 in. in width, obtuse or rounded at the 
apex ; base rounded or cordate ; lower surface densely white-tomen- 
tose ; petioles about 4 in. long or more. Flowers 3-1 in. long, 
arranged in short lateral 2-chotomous corymbs, densely rufous or 
_ white-tomentose ; buds acute. Corolla slender, curved, terete ; tube 
split behind ; lobes 4, short, acute. Fruit clavate, 4 in. long, tomen- 
tose. 
Dehra Dun and Siwalik range (Kanjilal), also in N. Oudh in the Bahraich 
forests (Duthie). Flowers during the cold season. Distrrip. : 
Outer Himalayan ranges from Kashmir to Nepal, up to 5,000 ft. ; 
abundant on Woodfordia in Behar and Chota Nagpur, extending 
southwards to the Nilgiri Hills and Ceylon. It is very closely allied 
to L. Scurrula from which it may be distinguished by its greater 
size, its much broader and usually cordate leaves and by the copious 
white tomentum. 
5. longiflorus, Desr. in Lamk. Encycl. Meth. iii, 598 ; Brandis 
For. Fl. 397; Ind. Trees 549; F. B. I. v, 214; Watt E. D. ; 
Kanjilal For. Fl. (ed. 2), 337; Gamble Man. 583 ; Collett Fl. Siml. 
439 ; Prain Beng. Pl. 911 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. ii, 548; L. bicolor, 
Roxb. Fl. Ind. i, 548.—Vern. Banda, patha. 
A large bushy usually glabrous branch-parasite ; bark grey, smooth. 
Leaves usually opposite, glabrous and thickly coriaceous, 3-7 in. 
long, very variable in shape and venation, ovate elliptic or linear- 
oblong, obtuse ; midrib prominent, usually red, secondary nerves 
obscure ; petioles stout, 4-4 in. long. Flowers in stout spreading 
axillary or supra-axillary unilateral racemes, often two from an axil ; 
pedicels short; bracts broadly ovate, concave, subacute. Calyx 
