Loranthus.] cxxxn. LORANTHACE^E. (J. D. Tlooker.) 211 



also is very characteristic. The only specimens 1 have seen are Griffith's, and they 

 were communicated to Dr. Gardner in Ceylon. 



22. Xi. thelocarpus, Hook. f. ; branchlets and leaves beneath clothed 

 with very fine cinnamon or tawny scurfy stellate tomentum, leaves opposite 

 petioled oblong or ovate-oblong obtuse glabrous above, flowers fascicled on 

 short axillary peduncles pedicelled, fruit clavate papillose contracted into a 

 pedicel with an annular thickened base. Loranthus No. 6, Herb. Ind. Or. 

 H.f. # T. 



CHITTAGONG; at Kazi ke hat, J. D. H. 8f T. T. 



Branches stout, terete, sparsely lenticellate, bark grey. Leaves l-3 in., rigidly 

 coriaceous, dark brown and opaque above, nerves most obscure, base rounded ; petiole 

 4-J in. Flowers not seen; bracts very minute. Fruit % in. long, subumbellate, in- 

 serted on pedicels half their length, puberulous and bearing naked orbicular pustule- 

 like tubercles, tip rounded. A peculiar species, not easily distinguished by words 

 from L. scurrula, except by the very different fruit, which bears papillae something 

 like a Boerhavia ; the leaves also are much more rigid than L. scurrula. 



23. Zi. pulverulentus, Wall, in Eoxl. Fl. Ind. Ed. Carey $[ Wall. 

 221, and Cat. 515 ; branchlets and young leaves clothed with flocculent 

 white fugacious mealy tomentum, leaves often large opposite long-petioled 

 broadly ovate or ovate-oblong glabrous acute or obtuse, nerves distinct, 

 flowers 1 in. in solitary or fascicled racemes long-pedicelled scurfily white- 

 tomentose, calyx-limb 0, corolla slender curved, tube terete split, lobes 4 

 narrow, fruit clavate mealy. DC. Prodr. iv. 301; Brand. For. Fl. 396 ; 

 Kurz For. Fl. ii. 318. L. carnosus, Wall. Cat. 552. L. leptanthus, Wall. 

 Cat. 553 (excl. B.). 



SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA, alt. 2-4000 ft., from Garwhal to Bhotan. PEGU and 

 AVA, Kurz. CENTRAL PROVINCES, Brandis. The CONCAN, Stocks. 



Branches robust, terete, usually closely lenticellate ; bark dark grey. Leaves very 

 variable in size, 2-8 in. (much smaller in var. leptanthus), dark brown when dry ; 

 nerves arching, much stronger than in its allies j petiole J-l in. Racemes | 2 in. ; 

 pedicels %-^ in.; bract minute; flowers green when fresh, white or cream-coloured 

 when dry. Ovary pyriform, top contracted. Style very slender, stigma minute ovoid. 

 Fruit "large, club-shaped," Kurz. 



Var. leptanthus ; leaves smaller 1-2 in. elliptic or orbicular very coriaceous nerves 

 obscure, corolla 1J in. L. leptanthus, DC. L c. 299. L. leptanthus, Wall., 0. rotun- 

 difolia, Cat. 533 B. Ava, Wallich. 



** Leaves glabrous or nearly so. Fruit turbinate. 



24v Xi. umbellifer, Sckultz Syst. vii. 97 ; youngest parts rusty- 

 pubescent, leaves opposite and alternate petioled oblong obtuse or acute 

 glabrous, flowers 1-1^ in. umbelled or fascicled rarely subracemose on short 

 axillary peduncles. young hoary, corolla-tube slender curved, lobes 4 short, 

 fruit turbinate. DC. Prodr. iv. 301. L. umbellatus, Watt, in Roxb. Fl. 

 Ind. Ed. Carey Sf Wall. ii. 222, and Cat. 516 ; Don Prodr. 143. Loranth. 

 No. 72, Htrb. Ind. Or. H.f. Sf T. 



TEMPERATE and SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA, from Nepal to Bhotan, alt. 2- 

 6000 ft., Wallich, &c. KHASIA Mrs., alt. 4-6000 ft., common. 



Branches rather stout, grey, lenticellate. Leaves 3-1 in., subacute at both ends, 

 coriaceous, nerves distinct, brownish when dry ; petiole | ^ in. Inflorescence 

 variable, flowers sometimes fascicled on the branches without a common peduncle, at 

 others subracemose, but with the raceme never more than ^ in. ; bract small. 

 Calyx-tube minute, ovoid or obovoid, rusty-pubescent ; limb very short, obscurely 4- 

 toothed. Corolla exceedingly slender in bud, with a clavate obtuse or subacute tip ; 



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