Lomnthus.] cxxxn. LORANTHACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 217 



flowers 1 in. in sessile or peduncled axillary fascicles sessile or pedicelled, 

 calyx-limb entire, corolla-tube rather inflated, lobes 5 linear much longer 

 than the tube reflexed above the middle, fruit oblong. Wight Ic. t. 1020, 

 and Spic. Neilgherr. t. 88 ; Thwaites Enum. 134 ; Zenk. Plant. Ind. t. 17. 



NILGHIEI HILLS ; ascending to 7000 ft., Wight, &c. CEYLON ; Central Province, 

 alt. 1-7000 ft., Walker, &c. 



Branches very stout, terete, smooth, or minutely cracked, not lenticellate. Leaves 

 3-6 in. by 1^-4 in., narrowed into the petiole, dark brown above and beneath ; nerves 

 very few, raised on both surfaces ; petiole - in., very stout. Flowers fascicled on 

 the nodes of the axils, sessile and peduncled together; bract, variable; pedicels very 

 short or 0. Calyx minute, ellipsoid or globose, limb cupular, margin thin hardly, 

 lobed. Corolla-tube very slender in bud, in flower straight, not split, lobes some- 

 times all free, at others one .or two are combined for half their length. Filaments 

 short, ^ anthers long. Style filiform, stigma capitate. Fruit % in., smooth. The 

 nervation varies much. Thwaites suggests that this may be a variety of L. elasticus, 

 but it is very different. 



Var. ? Clarkei ; flowers smaller in. corolla-lobes equal shorter more spathulate 

 reflexed portion about in. Ootamacund, alt. 7000 ft., Clarke. Amongst the very 

 numerous specimens of L. neelgherrensis that I have examined, none have such short 

 aud spathulate corolla-lobes as tliis. 



41. Xi, memecylifolius, Wight $ Am. Prodr. 383 ; quite glabrous, 

 leaves opposite and alternate petioled narrowly oblong or elliptic obtuse 

 thickly coriaceous, flowers 1-1^ in. umbelled on short stout axillary 

 peduncles erect pedicelled, ovary cylindric-oblong, calyx-limb cupular 

 obtusely 5-toothed or truncate, corolla straight, tube 5-angled split slightly 

 inflated above the middle, lobes 5 linear-lanceolate acuminate as long as the 

 tube or longer, fruit oblong or pyriform. 



NILGHIRI HILLS, alt. 8000 ft., Wight, Schmidt, &c. 



Branches stout, terete, brown. Leaves 1-3 in., dark brown and smooth when 

 dry, narrowed into the very short petiole, flat, nerves faint, oblique. Umbels solitary 

 or fascicled; peduncle and pedicels very stout, |- in.; bracts orbicular, very 

 coriaceous. Ovary broad at the top, calyx-limb short. Corolla scarlet, strict, erect, 

 acute in bud, lobes reflexed for about half their length. Filaments much shorter 

 than the anthers. Stigma capitate. Fruit ^ in., smooth, crowned by the cupular 

 qalyx-limb. Closely allied to L. neelgherrensis, but the leaves are smaller, flowers 

 umbelled and fewer and larger, corolla not dilated at the base, and the calyx obtusely 

 toothed. 



42. 1. sarcophyllus, Wall, in Wight 8f Am. Prodr. 384, and Cat. 

 6863 ; very stout, quite glabrous, leaves large alternate and opposite shortly 

 petioled, elliptic oblong or orbicular very thickly coriaceous obtuse, flowers 

 1-lf in. in short many-fid, racemes, calyx-limb cupular obtusely unequally 

 lobulate, corolla curved, tube narrow split dilated towards the base, lobes 5 

 linear slender much longer than the tube. L. carnosus, Herb. Wight. 



NILGHIHI MTS. ; at Cumbuin on a Ficus, Wight. 



Habit of the large-leaved states of L. longiflorus with oblique nerves, but leaves 

 much thicker, calyx-limb distinctly lobulate, and corolla-tube dilated below. Wight's 

 specimens are the only ones I have seen. 



43. Zi. crassusj Soo~k.f.\ very stout, leaves large alternate petioled 

 very thickly coriaceous elliptic or oblong obtuse, flowers f in. in small 

 axillary subsessile racemes densely furfuraceous pedicelled, calyx-limb 

 cupular quite entire, corolla straight funnel-shaped not split, equally cleft 

 to below the middle into 5-6 lobes with long reflexed linear tips, fruit ovoid- 

 oblong. L. retusus, Wall. Cat. 504, in part. 



