Loranthus.] CXXXIL LORANTHACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 215 



throughout (racemes rarely puberulous), leaves alternate or opposite sessile 

 or petioled orbicular oblong elliptic or linear obtuse thickly coriaceous, 

 flowers 1-2^ in. in axillary and supra-axillary racemes secund erect pedi- 

 celled, calyx-limb cupular truncate entire, corolla slender curved split 

 slightly dilated above the middle, lobes 5 short linear-oblong, fruit oblong. 

 DC. Prodr. iv. 304; Roxb. FL Ind. Ed. Carey fy Wall. ii. 217; Wight 

 Sf'Arn.Prodr. 384; Roxb. Cor. PI. t. 139; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 86; 

 Dalz. # Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 110 ; Brandis For. Fl. 397 ; Kurz For. Fl. 321 ; 

 Thwaites Enum. 134 ; Wall. Cat. 507 ; Wight Ic. t. 302 ; Gamble Man. 

 Ind. Timb. 320. L. bicolor, Roxb. FL Ind. i. 548, ii. 185, and Ed. Carey $ 

 Wall. ii. 205, and Cor. PL 1. 139 ; Wall. Cat. 499. L. Koanigianus, Aqardh 

 in Schult. Syst. vii. 108 ; DC. I. c. 307. L. Wightianus, Wall. Cat. 6872. 

 L. imbricatus and L. lineatus, Edgew. in Trans. Linn Soc. xx. 59. Rheede 

 Sort. Mai. x. t. 4. 



TROPICAL and TEMPEEATE HIMALAYA, alt. 3-7500 ft., from Jatnu to Bhotan. 

 GANGETIC PLAINS, from Oude eastward to ASSAM, and southward on plains and 

 hills throughout both Peninsulas to TEAVANCOEE and MALACCA. CEYLON, in the warm 

 parts of the Island. 



A large bush ; branches terete, usually smooth, dark or light grey, lenticellate or 

 not. Leaves 3-10 by ^-5 in., infinitely variable in shape and veining, opaque and 

 dark brown when dry ; petiole stout, - in. Eacemes 1-4 in., solitary or fascicled, 

 stout or slender, usually upcurved with upcurving flowers of variable length ; bract 

 orbicular, cupular ; pedicels stout or slender. Calyx hoary in Ceylon specimens, limb 

 quite entire. Corolla pink or red, with often green lobes, lower half of tube very 

 narrow, reflexed part of the lobes - the length of the tube. Filaments shorter than 

 the anthers, often glandular. Stigma capitate. Fruit % in., smooth, crowned with 

 the cupular calyx. Of the many forms of this common and variable plant the following 

 are the most remarkable. 



Vzr.falcata, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 321; leaves linear 4-6 by -J in. often falcate, 

 flowers f-1 in., calyx glabrous or white and scurfy. L. falcatus, Linn.f. Suppl. 211 ; 

 DC. 1. c. 305 ; Wall. Cat. 519. L. Wightianus, Wall. Cat. 6872, in part. L. longi- 

 florus 7., Wight /Sf Arn. I. c. Deccan Peninsula and Ceylon. The name of this variety 

 is much the earliest for the species, but is very inapplicable, and has hence been put 

 aside by general consent. 



Var. amplexifolia, Thwaites Enum. 134 ; leaves large sessile 4-7 in. diam. orbi- 

 cular- or oblong-cordate amplexicaul. L. amplexifolius, DC. I.e.; Wight $f Am. I.e.', 

 Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL 86. L. amplexicaulis, Wall. Cat. 520. Deccan Peninsula and 

 Ceylon. Inflorescence often terminal. 



Var. pubescens; peduncle pedicels calyx and corolla in bud pubescent. Deccan 

 Peninsula. 



36. Xi. lonchiphyllus, Thwaites Enum. 418; very robust, quite gla- 

 brous, leaves opposite and alternate subsessile very coriaceous ovate acute 

 or acuminate strongly penninerved bullate, bract minute, flowers 1 in. in 

 shortly peduncled fascicles pedicelled, calyx-limb entire, corolla-tube very 

 slender below gibbously inflated above the middle split nearly to the base, 

 lobes 5 linear much shorter than the tube, fruit ovoid. 



CEYLON ; in the Ambagarnowa District, Thwaites. 



Branches very thick, terete, bark pale smooth or lenticellate. Leaves 4-6 by 

 1-2|- in., pale brown when dry, margin recurved, base rounded or subcordate, nerves 

 many arching deeply sunk and anastomosing; petiole ^-^ in., very stout. Floivers 

 few in a fascicle. Calyx small, bract subacute. Corolla slightly curved. Style 

 slender, stigma capitate. Fruit % in. long. The strongly nerved and bullate leaves 

 of the only specimen I have seen are marked characters. 



37. Ii. eleg-ans, Wall, in DC. Prodr. iv. 304, and Cat. 530; very 

 robust, glabrous, leaves opposite and alternate very shortly petioled elliptic 



