WightioncB. N. O. Loran these. 



TABS. CCXXIX- CCXXX. 



LORANTHUS LAGENIFLORUS. 



Corolla longe tubulosa aequaliter 5-fida, antheris erectis, invo- 

 lucro campanulato niagno colorato circa floras paucos sub- 

 capitatos. Am. 



Loranthus lageniflorus. Wight^ Cat. w. 2437. — Am. New or rare 

 Indian PL in Ann. of Nat. Hist. ined. 



Hab. Malabar. Dr Wight. 



Lignosus, glaber, parasiticus. Folia opposita, petiolata, petiolo 

 2-4 lineas longo, ovato-Ianceolata, seu elliptico-oblonga, obtusa, 

 basi rotundata, penninervia, crassa^ coriacea. Pedwiculi fas- 

 ciculati ad ramos annotinos orti, brevissimi, apice involucrum 

 sanguineum garaophyllum campanulatum magnum 4-5-lobum 

 ferentes. Flores 4-5 in fundo involucri subsessiles. Calycis 



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timbus cupularis membranaceus, repando-5-dentatus. Corolla 

 puberula, tubulosa, involucrum duplo superans, apice supra 

 medium quinquefida, versus laciniarum basin per sestivatlonem 

 inflatim annulata,laciniis linearibus demum reflexis, AnthercB 

 erects. Am. 



This is perhaps the most beautiful of the Genus. Its blood- 

 red involucres are about an inch long, and four to six lines across. 



Am. 



