Loranthus.] cxxxn. LORANTHACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 221 



folius, Walt. Cat. 524. L. viridiflorus, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. Ed. Carey 

 $ Wall. ii. 219 ; Wall Cat. 512. L. sphasrocarpus, Blume Bijd. 661, and 

 Fl. Jav. Loranth. t. 17; DC. L c. 297. Macrosolen sphaerocarpus & oleoides, 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Sat. i. 1. 830, 831. Elytranthe spheeroidea, Don Gard.Dict. 

 iv. 127. 



TEOPICAL HIMALAYA; Nepal, Wallich. Sikkim, alt. 1-4000 ft., J. D. H. 

 BENGAL, CACHAE, KHASIA Mis., PEGU, PENAN G and MALACCA. DISTEIB. Java. 



I very much doubt this being anything but a form of L. ampullaceus, from which 

 it differs in the narrower nerveless leaves and (according to description) in the globose 

 fruit. Indeed Roxburgh's own specimens (in Herb. Bentham) do not agree with his 

 drawing or description, and are certainly L. ampullaceus. Roxburgh describes the 

 flowers as greenish orange, but his figure represents them with a pink corolla-tube and 

 yellow lobes. Kurz says greenish orange with yellow tips, as does Clarke. Kurz says 

 that the nerves become visible in a dry state. The Plate of Rheede (x. t. 5) quoted by 

 Roxburgh and others for L. globosus cannot belong to that plant, which is not a native 

 of Malabar ; it is too rude for determination. 



Sect. VIII. Elytranthe. Flowers few, large, crowded, decussately 

 arranged on very short spikes which are sessile, or terminate very stout 

 axillary peduncles. Bracts and bracteoles subequal, large, coriaceous, at 

 length deciduous. Calyx-limb tubular, truncate, quite entire. Corolla 

 tubular or funnel-shaped, 5-6-cleft. 



* Bracts and bracteoles orbicular, shorter than the calyx. 



_54. Xi. loniceroides, Linn.^ Sp. PI. Ed. 2. 473 (excl. syn. Pink.)-, 

 quite glabrous, leaves all opposite petioled oblong-ovate or' -lanceolate 

 acuminate, spikes few-fld. terminating short stout axillary peduncles, bract 

 and bracteoles orbicular sheathing the base of the ovary, corolla 1-2 in. 

 narrowly funnel-shaped curved, lobes 5-6 linear-oblong or -spathulate. 

 DC. Prodr. iv. 299 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. Ed. Carey Sf Wall. 216 ; Wight & Arn 

 Prodr. 382; Wight Ic. t. 303; Dah. fy Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 110; Thwaites 

 Enum. 133 ; Wall. Cat. 506 A. L. umbellatus, Heyne in Roth Nov. Sp. 

 192 ; DC. 1. c. 316. L. macrophyllus, ZenJc. PL Ind. t. 16. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; from the Concan to Travancore, ascending to 6000 ft. in 

 the Nilghiris. CEYLON, in the Central Province, alt. 4-7000 ft. 



Branches stout, terete; bark pale, warted. Leaves 2-5 by 1^-2 in., thickly 

 coriaceous, nerves spreading; petiole - in. Peduncles solitary or crowded, very 

 robust, - in. long, 2-6 fld. ; bracts shorter than the ovary, very coriaceous, obtuse 

 or subacute, keeled. Calyx-tube twice as long as the ovary, truncate, cylindric, 

 quite entire. Corolla red, thickly coriaceous, very variable in length, split way 

 down. Anthers slender, multilocellate. Fruit ellipsoid. L. coriaceus, Desv. in 

 Lam. Encycl. iii. 597 (cited under this by De Candolle and others), is quite another 

 plant, a native of Bourbon. 



55. Xi. capitellatus, Wight <$f Arn. Prodr. 382; quite glabrous, 

 leaves all opposite petioled oblong-ovate or lanceolate acuminate, .spikes 

 subsessile or on very short stout axillary peduncles, bracts and bracteoles 

 orbicular sheathing the base of the ovary, corolla -f in. usually straight 

 funnel-shaped cleft to or below the middle into 5-6 linear or spathulate 

 lobes. Wight Ic.t. 304,; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. JP7. 109 ; Thwaites Enum'. 

 133. L. ampullaceus, Wall. Cat. 506 B. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; from the Concan southwards. CEYLON, ascending to 

 3000 ft. 



Thwaites suspects this to be a variety of L. loniceroides, and he is probably 



