212 cxxxn. LoiiANTHACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Lomnthus. 



tube slightly swollen in flower; lobes not the length of the tube. Filaments 

 shorter tlian the anther. Stigma capitate. Fruit jj in., turbinately obovate with a 

 broad subtruucate top. Brandis says thei-e is no bract, but small bracteoles at the 

 base of the ovary. I think this is a mistake. 



Var. ctavigera ; flowers perfectly glnbrons. L. clavigerus, Wall. Cat. 6873. 

 ? L. clavatus, Eoxl. FL Ind. i. 553, ii. 189, and Ed. Carey $ Wall. ii. 210. L. Cory- 

 nitis, Spreng. Cur. Post. 140; DC. 1. c. 317. Silbet, De Silva $ Gomez. Wallich's 

 specimens are the only ones I have seen. 



25. Zi. elatus, Edgew. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 58 ; youngest buds 

 rusty-pubescent, leaves opposite and alternate large long-petioled broadly 

 ovate base rounded or subcordate glabrous, flowers 1-1 in. umbelled 

 or fascicled on short axillary peduncles rarely subracemose young hoary, 

 corolla-tube narrow curved split, lobes short linear-spathulate, fruit turbinate. 

 L. umbellifer, Brand. For. Fl. 397. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 5-10,000 ft.; from Simla, Royle, Edgeworth, &c., 

 to Bhotan, Griffith. 



Very near indeed to L. uvnbellifer, but the bark is almost black when dry, the 

 leaves much larger, more coriaceous, of a very different shape and long-petioled, the 

 calyx broader and more truncate, and the tube of the corolla is much less slender in 

 bud ; it is further remarkable for the elevation it inhabits. 



*** Leaves tomentose. Fruit ellipsoid. 



26. Xi. vestitus, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. Ed. Carey fyWall. ii. 218, and 

 Cat. 511 ; branchlets petioles and leaves beneath clothed with soft appressed 

 buff or pale rufous tornentum, leaves opposite petioled oblong or ovate- 

 or linear-oblong obtuse glabrous above base acute, flowers |-f in. in axillary 

 sessile or peduncled fascicles pedicelled rufous-villous, calyx-limb truncate, 

 corolla terete, buds with rounded clavate tips, tube split, lobes 4 obtuse, 

 fruit ellipsoid at length glabrous. DC. Prodr. iv. 302 ; Don Prodr. 143; 

 Brand. For. Fl. 396 ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 320. 



SUBTROPICAL and WESTERN HIMALAYA, alt. 5-7000 ft., from Garwhal to Nepal. 

 KHASIA MTS., alt. 4-6000 ft., Griffith, J. D. H. $ T. T. 



A large shrub (erect on oak trees in the Khasia Mts.); branches stout, terete ; 

 bark dark, sparsely lenticellate. Leaves 2J-4 in., very coriaceous, often bullate, and 

 with recurved margins, pale greenish and shining above, nerves faint; petiole - in. 

 Fascicles of flowers solitary or clustered, usually peduncled ; flowers smaller than in 

 L. ferrugineus. Corolla-lobes very short, obtuse. Fruit ^-J in. long. A very 

 distinct species, differing in its fruit from the others of this section. 



SECT. V. ZJenclrophthoe. Flowers in axillary clusters or racemes, 

 often mealy ; bract scale-like ; bracteoles 0. Calyx usually produced into 

 a toothed tube above the ovary. Corolla long or short; tube often gibbausly 

 inflated, straight or incurved, usually split at the back, J5- rarely 4-lobed. 

 Anthers narrow, cells indistinct. Fruit ovoid or oblong (pyriform in L. 

 Stocksii). 



* Flowers pubescent tomentose or villous. 



27. L. tomentosus, Heyne in Roth Nov. Sp. 191 ; branches and 

 leaves beneath rusty-tomentose, leaves all alternate petioled oblong or 

 obovate-oblong obtuse penninerved, bract rarely exceeding the 5-toothed 

 calyx, flowers in. in axillary sessile or shortly peduncled fascicles pedicelled 

 densely rusty-villous with hispid hairs, corolla curved, tube terete split, 

 lobes 5 oblong. L. bracteatus, DC. Prodr. iv. 306, in part. L. tomentosus, 



