218 cxxxii. LORANTHACE^;. (J. D. Hooker.) [Loranthus. 



SINGAPORE, Wallich. 



Branches terete, grey, densely leuticellate. Leaves 3-7 by l-4 in., dark brown 

 and opaque when dry on both surfaces; nerves broad, distinct; petiole very stout, 

 \ in. Racemes i in.; pedicels very short; bracts orbicular, cupular. Calyx-tube 

 globose, limb truncate. Corolla-lobes linear from a cuneate base, reflexed for half 

 their length. Anthers linear, longer than the filament. Stigma capitate. Fruit 

 (young) J in. long, crowned with the cupular calyx-limb. [ have seen only Wallich's 

 specimens of this very fine species which are attached to two sheets with L. retusus, 

 Jack, from which they differ entirely in habit, in the texture form and colour of the 

 leaves, and in the unibracteate and scurfy much shorter flowers. The specimens of 

 L. retusus are flowerless. 



Sect. VI. Tolypanthus. Flowers in involucrate fascicles, 1-bracteate, 

 ebracteolate ; bracts much broader than the flowers, free or connate into a 

 bell-shaped involucre. 



44. Xi. involucratus, Jtoxb. Fl. Ind. i. 552, ii. 188, and Ed. Carey 

 ft Wall. ii. 208 ; puberulous, leaves opposite and alternate long-petioled 

 elliptic ovate or cordate obtuse, involucre of 4 ovate free bracts in a^ whorl 

 equalling the 4 laxly villous sessile flowers, calyx-limb 4-lobed, corolla \ in., 

 tube straight cleft to the middle into 5 linear lobes with recurved tips. DC. 

 Prodr. iv. 298; Wall. Cat. 501 ; Griff. Netful, iv. 632. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 2-3000 ft., J. D. H. y Clarke. ASSAM, CACHAE, SILHET 

 and KHASIA MTS., Wallich, Griffith, &c. 



Branches slender, young tomentose, old woody terete with dark -brown smooth 

 bark and large lenticels. Leaves 4-7 in., thin, almost membranous, base acute, 

 nerves very slender; petiole |-1 in. Clusters of flowers solitary or fascicled, sessile 

 or shortly peduncled ; bracts leafy, | in. Calyx-tube ^ oblong, limb cleft to the base. 

 Corolla-tube rather inflated below, lobes recurved for about half their length. Fila- 

 ments shorter than the oblong-linear anthers. Style very stout, stigma large, 

 capitate, obscurely lobed. The var. hebecladus, Wall., has no characters that I can 

 recognize. 



45. Xi. Gardner!, Thwaites Enum. 133 ; very stout, glabrous, leaves 

 opposite and alternate petioled ovate or oblong obtuse, involucre of 5-6 

 ovate free bracts in a whorl much shorter than the 56 glabrous sessile 

 flowers, calyx-limb truncate, corolla f in., tube straight cleft into 5 linear- 

 oblong lobes recurved above the middle. 



CEYLON ; at Hantani, alt. 3000 ft., Gardner. 



Branches very stout ; bark smooth, red-brown, lenticels few. Leaves 3-4 in., 

 coriaceous, greenish-brown above, red-brown beneath ; midrib strong, nerves slender ; 

 petiole J ^ in. Clusters of flowers sessile on the branches ; bracts ^-^ in., obtuse, 

 nerves reticulate. Ovary very short ; calyx-limb annular, thickened. Corolla-tube 

 straight, glabrous, not dilated, sometimes bilabiate, lobes ^ the length of the tube. 

 Filaments subulate, as long as the linear-oblong caducous anthers ; stigma capitate. 

 Fruit (young), ellipsoid. 



46. Xi. lagreniferus, Wight Ic. t. 306 ; glabrous, leaves opposite or 

 alternate shortly petioled orbicular or oblong base rounded acute or cor- 

 date, involucre large bell-shaped 5-lobed of 5 connate bracts much shorter 

 than the 5 glabrous or hoary sessile flowers, calyx-limb 5-toothed, corolla 

 l|-2 in., lobes 5 very short oblong-lanceolate. Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 86; 

 Dalz. 4" Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 110; Hook. Ic. PI. t. 229, 230. 



Hills of the CONCAN, Graham, Law. MALABAR, Wight. 



Branches stout or slender ; bark dark brown, smooth, lenticels few large. Leaves 

 3-4 in., rather thin, and shining above, with short petioles and cordate or rounded 

 bases in Malabar specimens, more oblong and coriaceous with acute bases in Concan 



