206 cxxxii. LORANTHACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Loranthus. 



very coriaceous, smooth and shining, and probably flaccid when fresh ; nerves many, 

 horizontal, very obscure ; base narrowed into a stout petiole | in. Spike erect, many- 

 fld. ; rachis very stout, naked towards the base ; flowers erecto-patent, scarlet, quite 

 sessile ; bract boat-shaped ; calyx subglobose, limb obsolete. Corolla 4-5 -cleft to 

 the middle ; bud more swollen at the top than the base. Style stout, stigma capitate. 

 A very distinct plant. 



9. Xi. ensifolius, Thwaites Enum. 134 ; quite glabrous, leaves sub - 

 opposite petioled narrowly falcately lanceolate acuminate 3-7-nerved, nerves 

 parallel, racemes axillary and terminal slender ^equalling the leaves or 

 shorter, pedicels slender, bracteole minute. 



CEYLON ; at Ratnapoora, alt. 1000 ft., Thwaites., 



Branches black and opaque when dry. Leaves 3-5 by 1-1J in., thinly coriaceous, 

 opaque, dark brown when dry, narrowed into a petiole |-J in. Racemes solitary or 

 2 together, erect ; pedicels in. Ovary ellipsoid; calyx-limb annular. Corona un- 

 known. Style filiform, f in.; stigma capitellate. The parallel nerves at once dis- 

 tinguish this species. 



10. Ii. pentapetalus, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 553; ii. 211, and Ed. Carey 

 4* Wall. ii. 290 ; quite glabrous, leaves opposite and alternate petioled ovate 

 or elliptic acute or acuminate penninerved, spikes axillary erect strict stout 

 longer than the leaves, flowers i in. 4-5-merous glabrous base suddenly 

 inflated and 5-angled, style jointed at the middle. DC. Prodr. iv. 295; 

 Wall. PL As. Rar. iii. t. 225, and Cat. 503 ; Kurz For. FL ii. 322 ; Griff. 

 Notul. iv. 617, and Ic. PL Asiai. t. 624, 625 ; Blume FL Jav. Loranth. 39, 

 t. 14, and 23 A. L. polycarpus, Wall. Cat. 540. L. erythrostachyus, Wall, 

 mss. Phcenicanthernum pentapetalum, Miq. FL Ind. Sat. i. pt. 1, 823. 

 Dendrophthoe pentapetala, 6f. Don G-en. Syst. iii. 419. 



NEPAL, Wallich, J. D. H., and from ASSAM, SILHET and CACHAR to MALACCA, 

 PENANG and SINGAPORE, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 691, 692). DISTRIB. Ava, 

 Yunan, Java, Sumatra, Borneo. 



Branches stout, terete ; bark dark, smooth. Leaves 2-4 in., coriaceous, dark 

 brown or black when dry, nerves very faint ; petiole \-\ in., rather slender. Spikes 

 solitary and in pairs, dense- or lax-fld. ; rachis very stout, naked below ; flowers erect, 

 then spreading, quite sessile; bracteole ovate, ciliolate. Ovary terete, shortly 

 cylindric ; calyx-limb annular, obscurely toothed. Corolla-lobes reflexed from the 

 middle ; bud constricted in middle, tip clavate. Style slender above the joint, stigma 

 capitellate. Fruit ellipsoid, truncate. The style of this species is very characteristic, 

 the lower part where embraced by the corolla-tube being 5-angled. 



** Racemes or spikes very many-flowered, pubescent or tomentose. 



11. Xi. coccineus, Jack in Mai. Misc. i. 8, and in Hook. Sot. Misc. 

 i. 278 (excl. t. 58) ; rusty-tomentose, leaves opposite and alternate petioled 

 ovate or ovate-lanceolate acute or acuminate base rounded or cordate, spikes 

 or racemes axillary strict erect, pedicels very short, corolla in. 4-cleft 

 straight, base rather sw'ollen and 4-angled, fruit ovoid long-necked. Roxl). 

 Fl. Ind. Ed. Carey Sf Wall. ii. 215 ; DC. Prodr. iv. 296 ; Griff. Notul. iv. 

 620, and Ic. PL Asiat. t. 626. L. racemiferus, Wall. Cat. 539. Phoenican- 

 themum coccineum & Bennetianum, Miq. Fl. Ind. Sat. i. pt. 1, 825, 826. 

 Dendrophthoe coccinea, G. Don Gen. Syst. iii. 419. 



CACHAR, Keenan. PEGTJ, McClelland. TENASSERIM, Wallich, &c. MALACCA, 

 Griffith (Kew Distrib. 2718). SINGAPORE, Jack. DISTRIB. Ava, Barilla, 

 Borneo. 



Branches long, terete, stout, lentioellate ; bark pale. Leaves 3-6 in., very coria- 

 ceous, variable in size and shape, nerves very faint ; petiole \\ in. SpiJces or 

 racemes very variable in length ; rachis stout ; pedicels very short and stout j bracteole- 



