Loranthus.] cxxxn. LORANTHACE^E. (J. E>. Hooker.) 213 



var. lanuginosus, Thwaites Enum. 135. L. Candolleanus, Hohenack. PL 

 Ind. Or. No. 514 a. Loranth. No. 9, Herb. 2nd. Or. H.f. $ T. 



NILQHIRI and PULNEY MTS., Heyne, Wight, Schmidt, &c. CEYLON, alt. 3- 

 5000 ft., Thwaites (C. P. 2492). 



Branches stout, dark grey, terete. Leaves 1-1 in., tip rounded, rarely 3 -nerved 

 at the base, glabrous, black and opaque above when dry ; petiole \-\ in. Fascicles 

 few-fld., solitary or clustered, peduncle rarely in. Ooary short. Corolla-lube 

 terete, curved, split to the middle, not inflated or gibbous. Filaments short, anthers 

 oblong. Style filiform, stigma capitellate. I have regarded this as Heyne's 

 tomentosus, in contradistinction to his bracteatus, agreeing as it does with Roth's 

 character, except in that the pubescence is rusty red and not grey. Roth describes 

 the bract as only 2 lines long, whereas in Heyne's bracteatus it reaches | in. : 

 this is, however, a very variable organ in both species. Thwaites' var. normalis 

 (C. P. 1642) is very unlike the normal peninsular forms ; it has elliptic-oblong green 

 leaves 3-3J in. long, with subsilky pubescence beneath, dense clusters of sessile 

 flowers, and less villous flowers. 



28. L. bracteatus, Heyne in Boxb. Fl. Ind. Ed. Carey Sf Wall. ii. 

 220 ; branches inflorescence and young leaves beneath clothed with thin 

 soft grey or buff tomentum, leaves all alternate petioled orbicular or cuneate- 

 obovate penninerved, bract '(sometimes 2) much longer than the 5-toothed 

 calyx, flowers f-1 in. in axillary peduncled fascicles pedicelled, corolla 

 curved, tube gibbously inflated in the middle, lobes 5 linear. DC, Prodr. 

 iv.^ 306 (excl. syn. tomentosus} ; Wall. Cat. 510 ; Wight fy Am. Prodr. 

 385 (excl. syn. Roth, fyc.}. L. tomentosus, Wight Ic. t. 378. L. Heyneanus, 

 Schult. Sijst. 106. 



SOUTH DECCAN PENINSULA; on the Nilghiris, &c., Heyne, &c. 



Rootstock creeping, branches slender. Leaves | 1 in., grey when dry, rarely 

 cuneately obovate, glabrous or grey-pubescent or tomentose ; petiole slender, -^ in. 

 Bracts oblong, often 3" times as long as the 5-toothed calyx. Flowers much longer 

 than in L. tomentosus, not villous, more appressedly grey-pubescent, tube more slender 

 though gibbously swollen in the middle; lobes very narrow. Fruit % in., elliptic- 

 oblong, puberulous. 



Var. angustifolia ; clothed with thin ashy tomentum, leaves narrowly obovate- 

 cuneate, bracts very narrow, flowers smaller. L. rnontanus, var. longifolius, Wight in 

 Wall. Herb. (6866 in part). Pulney Mts., Wight. Though very dissimilar in foliage, 

 1 find no character whereby to distinguish this specifically. 



29. Xi. Stocksii, Hook. f. ; leaves small opposite clothed with buff 

 mealy pubescence sessile or subsessile oblong or orbicular rounded at both 

 ends or base cordate, flowers solitary axillary sessile, bracts as long as the 

 calyx oblong obtuse, fruit small pyriform tomentose. Loranth. No. 15, 

 Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. $ T. 



The CONCAN, Stocks. 



Branches slender, bark grey, not lenticellate, young mealy like the foliage. 

 Leaves i-1 in. , mealy on both surfaces ; nerves few, obscure. Fruit (young) -j in. 

 long ; tip rounded ; calyx-limb not produced, truncate. Apparently a very distinct 

 species near L. bracteatus, but with sessile leaves and pyriform- fruit like that of a 

 Cyclanthus, to which section perhaps it should be referred. 



30. l. recurvus, Wall, in DC. Prodr. iv. 299, and Cat. 525 ; branch- 

 lets and young leaves clothed with buff or grey pubescence, leaves all 

 alternate obovate-cuneate glabrous or ashy-pubescent beneath, 3-iierved at 

 the base, bract shorter than the 5-toothed calyx, flowers in. in numerous 

 axillary sessile tomentose fascicles pedicelled, corolla usually strongly curve >>, 

 tube split gibbously inflated below the middle, lobes 5 linear-oblong. Wight 



