Lorantlius.} cxxxn. LORANTHACEJ:. (J. JD. Hooker.) 201) 



filiform, sometimes obscurely jointed a little way below the tip (opposite the base 

 of the corolla-lobes), stigma minute. Fruit % in. I am in doubt as to whether all 

 tire following varieties are really referable to one species, and whether, if so, 

 some others should not be included under it. Kui'z, who was the first to bring 

 L. obtectus and grandiflorus under L. Scurrula, confines the type plant to a form 

 with solitary or twin flowers; but this is obviously an abnormal condition, and his 

 Scurrula proper does not appear to be distinguishable from his var. buddleioides, which 

 I take to be the common and typical form of the species. I have retrained from 

 quoting any Malayan Archipelago species as synonymous, but I suspect that several 

 of these, as L, obovatus, L.sphenoideus, and L.repandus, all of Blume, are referable 

 to L. Scurrula. 



L. Scurrula proper ; leaves petioled from oblong to obovate and rounded or cordate 

 obtuse young clothed on both surfaces and old beneath with pale appressed tomentum, 

 flowers fascicled rusty or grey. L. Scurrula, DC. Prodr. iv. 301; Roxb. Cor. PL ii. 

 t. 140 ; Fl. Ind. \. 550 and ii. 186, and Ed. Carey # Wall. ii. 206 ; Wall. Cat. 

 6867 (specimens very bad, perhaps a mixture}. L. buddleioides, Desrouss. in, Lamk. 

 Encycl. iii. 600; .DC. 1. c. 302 ; Wight $ Arn. Prodr. 383 ; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 

 110. L. Heyneanus, Wall. Cat. 528. L. Heynii, DC. Z.c.300. L. pyrifolius. Wall. 

 Cat. 6869. L. cinnamomeus, Wall. Cat. 527; DC. I.e. 300. Loranth No. 19, 

 Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. Sf T. Sikkim Himalaya, alt. 3-6000 ft., J. D. H., Clarice. 

 Assam, Silhet and the Khasia Mts., alt. 3-6000 ft., Wallich, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 

 2728). Tenasserim, Heifer (Kew Distrib. 2728). Malacca, Griffith. Deccan 

 Peninsula, from the Ganges to Travancore, abundant. Ceylon, ascending to 4?000 ft. 



Var. bengalensis ; leaves sessile or subsessile ovate glabrous when mature, flowers 

 fascicled rustily tomentose, corolla | in. curved less slender pale buff. Loranth. 

 No. 23, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. # T. Assam, Khasia Mts. and Silhet, Griffith (Keiv 

 Distrib. 2722, 2734), J. D. H. $ T. T. Dacca, Clarke. Noakoly, J. D. H. # 

 .T. T. 



Var. oltecta, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 319 ; leaves shortly petioled glabrous when mature, 

 petiole very short, flowers racemose scurfily and rustily tomentose f in. long, corolla 

 very slender. L. obtectus, Wall. Cat. 534. L. concavifolius, Griff. Notul. iv. 615. 

 Ava, Wallich. Malacca, Griffith. 



Var. Icevlgata ; like var. obtecta, but petiole longer, and flowers less scurfily 

 tomentose. L. rufidulus & laevigatus, Wall. Cat. 535, 536 ; DC. 1. c. 302. TVnas- 

 serim, Wallich, Heifer (Kew Distrib. 2715, 2731). Malacca, Griffith. Very near 

 var. graciliflora. 



Var. graciliflora, Kurz 1. c. 319 ; leaves elliptic adult glabrous, petiole | in., 

 flowers ?p-l in. in short racemes very slender much curved hoary with pale or dark 

 pubescence. L. graciliflorus, Wall. Cat. 521; DC. I.e. 300. L. obovatus, Blume 

 Bijd. 663, and Fl. Jav. Loranth. t. 9. Dendrophthoe obovata, Miquel FL Ind. Bat. 

 \. 1. 817. Sikkim, alt. 2000 ft., J. D. H. Bhotan, Griffith. Assam and Silhet, 

 Wallich, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 2714). Chittagong, J. D. H. 8f T. T. Also 

 Timor. 



18. Ii. cordifolius, Watt, in Roxb. FL Ind, .Ed. Curey $ Wall. ii. 

 223, and Cat. 517; branches and leaves on both surfaces (except in age) 

 clothed with white or tawny appressed tomentum, leaves opposite usually 

 large rather long-petioled orbicular or very broadly ovate base rounded or 

 cordate, tip obtuse or rounded, flowers f-l in. fascicled on a short peduncle 

 pedicelled densely rufous or white-tomentose, tip of bud very acute, ovary 

 pyriform., corolla slender curved terete, tube split, lobes 4 short acute, 

 berry" pyriforra tomentose. DC. Prodr. iv. 302; Don Prodr. 143; Brand. 

 -For. Pi. 396. L. buddleioides, Thwaites Enum. in part, 136- 



SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA, alt. 1-5000 ft. ; from Kashmir, jffranrfw^ and Garwhal, 

 Falconer, to Nepal, Wallich. CENTRAL INDIA, at Hazaribagh, Vicary. NILGHIRI 

 HILLS, Wight, at Goodaloor, alt. 4000 ft., Clarke. CEYLON, Thwaites. 



This is hardly more than a variety of L. Scurrula, differing in its greater size, 

 more rounded and cordate leaves and the copious white tomeiitum, which gives it a 

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