210 cxxxn. LORANTHACE/E. ( J. D. Hooker.) \_Lorantltns. 



very different aspect from the ordinary state of L. scurrula, of which Wight and 

 Arnott indeed suggest its being a variety. The Ceylon specimens are beautifully 

 white. 



19. Xi. ferruginous, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 551, ii. 188 (ferruginosus), and 

 Ed. Carey <Sf Wall. ii. 207 ; branchlets and leaves beneath clothed with 

 close rusty scurfy tomenturn, leaves opposite shortly petioled elliptic obtuse 

 glabrous above base rounded, flowers | 1 in. in axillary sessile or shortly 

 peduncled fascicles pedicelled densely rusty villous, calyx turbinate, limb 

 entire, corolla slender terete, tube split, lobes 4, fruit pyriform villous. 

 DC. Prodr. iv. 299 ; Wall. Cat. 500 ; Jack in Mai. Misc. i. 9, and in Hook. 

 Sot. Misc. i. 279, t. 59. L. Schultesii, Blume in DC. I. c. 300, and Fl. Jav. 

 Loranth. t. 2. L. Oortianus, Korth,fid. Herb. Hort. Calcutt. Dendrophthoe 

 ferruginea, G. Don Gen. Syst. iii. 420 ; Miguel Fl. Ind. Sat. i. 1. 812. D. 

 Oortiana, Miquel I. c. 813. 



PENANQ- and SINGAPOEE, Roxburgh, Wallich, Phillips, &c. MALACCA, Griffith 

 (Kew Distrib. 2727), Maingay (Kew Distrib. 686). DISTEIB. Java, Sumatra. 



Branches terete ; bark smooth, darker grey, minutely lenticellate. Leaves l- 

 4 in., very uniform in shape, coriaceous, dark brown or black above when dry, nerves 

 faint ; petiole |- in., villous. Fascicles of flowers solitary or clustered, very variable 

 in length, differing from all states of L. scurrula in the thick tomentum and less 

 pyriform ovary. Corolla when fresh green within, rufous externally. 



20.- L. rhopalocarpusj Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1871, ii. 62, and 

 For. Fl. ii. 319 ; branches slender and branchlets leaves beneath and inflo- 

 rescence scurfily tomentose, leaves small opposite and alternate shortly 

 petioled obovate or cuneate glabrate above, flowers in axillary sessile or 

 shortly peduncled fascicles pedicelled tawny scurfily tomentose, calyx oblong, 

 limb truncate, corolla i in., tube very slender terete curved split 4-lobed, 

 fruit elongate narrowly clavate truncate, base with a thickened ring. L. 

 cuneatus, Wall. Cat. 541; DC. Prodr. iv. 301, excl. syn. ? L. fuscus, 

 Blume Bijd. 660, and Fl. Jav. Loranth. 28, t. 7. Dendrophthoe fusca, 

 Miquel Fl. Ind. Sat. i. 1. 814. 



PEGU and AEKACAN, Kurz. MABTABAN, Wallich ; at Moulmein, Griffith (Kew 

 Distrib. 2732). DISTEIB. Java ? 



A small shrub, 1-2 ft.; branches terete ; bark dark, minutely lenticellate, of shoots 

 rufous. Leaves 1-2 in., young tawny on both surfaces old glabrous on both, base 

 narrowed into the very short petiole, tip rounded, nerves few ascending. Flowers few, 

 " whitish, |-| in., somewhat lepidote;" bract minute. Fruit |-f in. long, gradually 

 narrowed from the truncate tip to the base, which has an annular thickening im- 

 mediately above the bract, terete, scurfy.- The very remarkable fruit at once dis- 

 tinguishes this species, of which I have seen no corolla. 



21. Zi. malaccensis, HooJc.f. ; branches slender, branchlets and inflo- 

 rescence rusty and scurfily pubescent, leaves small opposite on slender 

 petioles elliptic obtuse quite glabrous, flowers | in. in axillary fascicles of 2 

 or more very shortly pedicelled, ca4yx-tube pyriform, limb truncate con- 

 tracted, corolla-tube very slender terete split in front, lobes 4 acute, fruit 

 subcapitately clavate contracted into a very slender pedicel. 



MALACCA, Griffith. 



Apparently a small shrub ; branches terete, closely lenticellate. Leaves 1| in., 

 thinly coriaceous, very dark brown when dry, almost shining above, nerves faint 

 spreading; petiole ^ ^ in., very slender for the genus. Flowers, dark rusty brown 

 when dry ; bract minute. Corolla-lobes very short, acute. Fruit as long as the 

 corolla, consisting of a short ellipsoid head suddenly contracted into a long slender 

 pedicel which is not thickened at the base, scurfily pubescent. The fruit of this 



