204 oxxxii. LORANTHACE;K. (J. D. Hooker.) [Lorantlms. 



SECT. I. Euloranthus. Flowers small, under in. ; bract scale-like 

 or hollow ; bracteoles 0. Petals 4-6, free. Anthers ovate or oblong, base 

 obtuse, cells unequal or one suppressed. 



1. Zi. odoratus, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. Ed. Carey Sf Wall. ii. 215, 

 and Cat. 505; quite glabrous, leaves subopposite elliptic or lanceolate, 

 flowers minute opposite or fascicled on axillary spikes, petals 6 free. Don 

 Prodr. 143; DC. Prodr. iv. 294. L. hexapetalus, Ham. mss. 



NEPAL, Wallich; E. Nepal and Sikkim, alt. 7000 ft., J. D. H. Khasia Mts. on 

 oaks, alt. 5-6000 ft., Griffith, J. D. H. $ T. T. (Loranth. 27, 28). 



Bushy, bark dark. Leaves 3-5 in., fleshy, narrowed into a petiole, often falcate, 

 penninerved, nerves slender. Spikes l-2 in., strict, solitary or fascicled; flowers 

 - in., yellowish, sweet-scented. Ovary with the base sunk in the rachis ; Calyx- 

 limb short ; style very stout, stigma capitate. Petals spathulate, in. long ; buds 

 clavate. Fruit ellipsoid, glabrous. 



2. Xi. Lobbii, Hook. f. ; leaves opposite sessile ovate-lanceolate from a 

 rounded or acute base glabrous, -flowers minute sessile fascicled in small 

 sessile clusters, calyx rusty-tomentose, petals 4 free puberulous. 



PENANG, Loll, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 695/2), Curtis. 



Branches terete; bark pale, obscurely puberulous. Leaves 2^-4 in., thickly 

 coriaceous, almost nerveless, obtusely acuminate, minutely impressed-punctate through 

 the contraction of the tissues on both surfaces which are similar. Flowers some- 

 times 1-sexual; clusters 6-20-fld., - in. diam. Petals in. long, linear, obtuse, pu- 

 berulous, free ; buds oblong, tip rounded. Ouaryglobo.se; calyx-limb shortly tubular. 

 Style clavate, stigma obtuse. Fruit * in. long, puberulous, ellipsoid. This is the 

 plant referred to in Gen. Plant, iii. 208 as from Moulmein, and possibly L. axanthus, 

 Korth. The Moulmein habitat is an error ; thei-e are 3 specimens of it in the Kew 

 Herbarium, all from Lobb, and all bear his number 338: of these one is stated to be 

 from Java, a second from Penang, and a third from Moulmein. As, however, Maingay's 

 specimens are from Penaug, so no doubt are all the others. It differs from the Su- 

 matran L. axanthus, Korth. (Miq. PL Ind. Bat. i. 1. 834), in the subsessile leaves and 

 other characters. There are very imperfect specimens of probably this species from 

 Borneo (Beccari, 2378). 



3. Zi. nodiflorus, Thwaites Enum. PI. Ceyl. 134 ; leaves opposite 

 petioled elliptic acute or acuminate glabrous, -flowers small sessile fascicled 

 in sessile clusters, calyx rusty-tomentose, petals 4 free glabrous. 



CEYLON, Walker; in forests of the Ambagamowa District, Thivaites. 



Branches terete, thickly lenticellate. Leaves 2J-3 in., thickly coriaceous, almost 

 nerveless, tissue contracted as in L. Lobbii. Flowers in small clusters. Ovary 

 globose. Style filiform, stigma hemispheric ; calyx-limb short, dilated. Petals % in. 

 long, linear, obtuse, quite glabrous j buds linear, tip obtuse. 



SECT. II. Phcenicanthemum. Flowers small, not 1 in. long, spicate 

 or racemose, 2-sexual ; bract scale-like, bracteoles 0. Corolla lobes or seg- 

 ments 4-5, reflexed symmetrically ; buds often clavate at the tip. Anthers 

 oblong, erect, continuous with the filament, 2-celled. PHCENICANTHEMUM 

 (Gen.), Miquel. 



* Racemes or spikes very many-fld., quite glabrous.' 



4. Xi. Wallichianus, Schultz. Syst. vii. 100; quite glabrous, leaves 

 opposite and alternate petioled elliptic obtuse penninerved, racemes slender 

 fascicled shorter than the leaves, flowers i in. 4-merous, glabrous, buds 

 straight subcylindric obtuse, ovary smooth. DC. Prodr. xvi. 294 ; Wight 



