618 LORANTHMACEJE. 
4. Petal. and stamen detached. 
5. Anther in front. 
6. Ditto back. 
7. Anther after dehiscence. 
8. Pistillum. 
Has. Malacca in arborib. It belongs to L. bicolor section. 
Spec. cnan. Fol. oppositis vel alternis lanceolatis undula- 
tis. 
Racemis spiciformibus axill. solitariis vel aggregatis pedi- 
cello brevisibus deflexis apice l-bracteat. Per. basi globosa 
5-gona 5-petala. Stylus infra medium angulatus. Bacca 
ovato-oblonga. 
Valde affinis L. coccineo. 
Ozs. In Loranthus pentapetalus the circumstances atten- 
dant on the development of an albumen, as well as: of the 
embryo are obscure, I have seen tubes entering into the head 
of the sac, and I have after tlie fall of the style found them in 
the ovarial portion of the same organ, but after they are 
scarcely detectable up to a period when the albumen has 
attained a considerable size, and then what is very remark- 
able, the funicle of the embryo consists for the whole of its 
upper part, of a simple tube, other less remarkable anomalies 
consist in the ease with which the albumen, even from its 
commencement almost separates from the sacs, and perhaps 
in the lateness in which the tubes, and the single funicle of 
the embryo become invested with a proper membrane, or is I 
really tubular... 4 
Pl. DCXXV. Fig. I. Even at this period which is first A 
after the fall of the style, the cellular mass appears quite free, 
it is invariably terminated by a single conical cell. 
The sacs are now withered, adhere closely to parietes of 
the cell. 
They are attached to the apex of the mass, although from 
the production of the cells upwards, this is obscured, ana 
even becomes somewhat lateral. Subsequently the inner. 23 
tubes exist in some, after which they reach to the mass, they — 3 
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