Order 104. Lorantkacece. 283 



3. L. cuneatus. A small species, smooth except the young 

 parts ; leaves small obovate, narrowed at the base, flowers 3 or 

 4 together in short umbels, corolla tube green, lobes 5 red, 

 throat streaked, bract small acute. 



Common at Matheran, especially on jdmlul trees ; also at Maha- 

 bleshwar. Ghauts (-D.). 



4. L. elastums. A large woody smooth species, all olive- 

 coloured and tinged with red, leaves broad and thick, flowers 

 clustered on the branches, corolla long slender, white and green, 

 the 5 lobes twisted, stigma and anthers bright red, fruit oval. 



Dapoli and Kashedy (N.E. boundary of Rutnagherry Collectorate), 

 where it is very common on pipal trees. Vingorla (-).) Mahablesh- 

 war (Birdwood). 



5. L. lageniferus. Woody, leaves sessile or short- petioled, 

 broad ovate or cordate at base, veined red ; a large bell-shaped 

 reddish involucre with 5 shallow lobes is almost sessile on 

 the branches, and contains 5 or 6 green flowers, long- tubed, 

 erect, 5-lobed. 



Matheran. Khandalla ((?.). Pretty common on the higher hills (D.). 



6. L. loniceroides. Smooth, leaves ovate lanceolate, flowers 

 white, tinged with red, in short racemes, corolla tube long, 

 curved, lobes 6 ; bracts 3, roundish, at the base of the ovary ; 

 fruit smooth, oval, crowned by the calyx. 



Common in the Konkan and Ghants. This is much like No. 2 and 

 also like honeysuckle. 



* L. capitellatus is thought to be only a var. of this last, differing 

 in the straight corolla and very long peduncle. Chorla Ghaut (D.). 

 L. Wallichianus, smooth, leaves oval lanceolate, flowers in small 

 short umbels, corolla green with 4 equal red lobes, much bulged 

 at the base, fruit top-shaped : it comes nearest to No. 2. Mahab- 

 leshwar. Eotanda Ghaut (D. and G.). * i. scurrula (L. lud- 

 dleioides, D.). A large bush, very variable in pubescence, form 

 and size of leaves, and inflorescence ; leaves elliptic to cordate 

 ovate, peduncles very short, few-flowered, corolla buff or pink, 

 tube split, lobes 4, fruit pear-shaped. On dsana and karmal 

 trees at Khandalla (D. and 6r.). * L. pulveruleutus, stout, woody, 

 young parts covered with dense white meal, leaves long petioled, 

 ovate, flowers pale green in short racemes, corolla slender, 

 curved, the tube split, 4-divided, fruit club-shaped. Not in D. or (?. 

 Konkan (Siocfes, Brandis). * L. involucratus, woody with slender 

 branches, leaves ovate or cordate, flowers in clusters, each in an 

 involucre of 4 distinct leafy bracts, corolla tube split, lobes 5, style 



