208 cxxxn. LORANTHACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Loranilius. 



terete base swollen 4-angled, calyx-limb entire. L. ligustrinus, Herb. Ind. 

 Or.H.f.SfT.inpart. 



KHASIA MTS., alt. 1-3000 ft. J. D. H. $ T. T. 



Very similar to L. ligustrinus, and always growing from the ground, and hence 

 probably a root parasite, quite glabrous, leaves thinner with more distinct nerves, 

 racemes sometimes 2 in. long. Dr. Thomson and I gathered this plant at seven or 

 eight places at varjous localities all over the Khasia Mts., and never found it attached 

 to an aerial tree-branch. It either replaces L. ligustrinus or is a remarkable form 

 of that plant. I find no traces of ferruginous pubescence on it. 



SECT. III. Keteranthus. Flowers 1-1 in., axillary, cymose or race- 

 mose ; bract scale-like ; bracteoles 0. Petals 4-6, free ; buds straight or 

 incurved, tip not clavate. Anthers very slender, continuous with the fila- 

 ment, 2-celled. 



16. Zi. heteranthus, Wall. Cat. 537; very robust, nearly glabrous, 

 leaves alternate shortly petioled elliptic or oblong-lanceolate or linear obtuse 

 or subacute thickly coriaceous penninerved and striolate, racemes longer 

 than the leaves very stout curved sparse-fld., pedicels very stout, ovary 

 cylindric, buds 1-1 in. curved slender acute, petals 6. -DC. Prodr. v. 306. 

 L. eleutheropetalus, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1871, ii. 64, and For. Flor. ii. 

 321. Dendrophthoe macrocalyx, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 1, 821. 



BURMA ; Martaban, Wallich, Brandis. DISTEIB. Java, Borneo. 



Branches terete ; bark smooth, dark. Leaves 3-5 in., very variable in breadth, 

 pale yellow-brown when dry, nerves very obscure, base acute, narrowed into the very 

 stout petiole | \ in. Racemes solitary or in pairs, 3-5 in., rachis and pedicels very 

 stout ; bract orbicular, concave. Calyx in. narrow, limb cupular entire. Corolla- 

 buds slender, linear, red ; segments very slender. Anthers twice as long as the fila- 

 ment. Style filiform, stigma simple. Kurz describes the flowers as at first minutely 

 puberulous. 



SECT. 1Y. Cichlanthus. Flowers in axillary fascicles, rarely race- 

 mose, usually scurfily or mealy-tomentose ; bract scale-like; bracteoles 0. 

 Calyx hardly produced above the ovary. Corolla long, curved, scurfy, 4- 

 rarely 5-lobed, and deeply cleft behind. Anthers narrow, ' cells indistinct. 

 Fruit clavate turbinate or pyriform, except L. vestitus. 



* Leaves mealy or scurfy on both surfaces, rarely glabrescent. Fruit 

 pyriform or clavate. 



17. Xi. scurrula, Linn. ; Kurz For. FL ii. 319 ; young shoots and 

 inflorescence covered with short soft white or rusty tomentum, leaves opposite ' 

 petioled or sessile ovate elliptic oblong cordate or obovate obtuse or subacute 

 penninerved glabrous or tpmentose beneath, flowers in axillary very short 

 sub racemose fascicles pedicelled, ovary pyriform, corolla 1 in. very slender 

 usually curved terete, tube split, lobes 4 short, bud terete, tip subclavate 

 acute or obtuse, berry pyriform tomentose. 



Throughout INDIA; from the Sikkim Himalaya and Bengal southwards to 

 Singapore ; and from Behar, Central India and the Concan, southwards to Travancore 

 and CEYLON. 



A large bush, very variable in amount of pubescence, form and size of leaves, and 

 in inflorescence ; bark emooth or lenticellate, usually pale. Leaves rarely exceeding 

 3 in., coriaceous ; nerves slender; petiole rarely ^ in. Inflorescence if racemose 

 rarely in. long; pedicels long or short. Ovary with the base often lengthening 

 into a pedicel as the fruit ripens ; calyx-limb very short, entire. Corolla variable 

 in length, -1 in., very slender, buff or pink, lobes acute. Filaments short. Style 



