222 cxxxn. LORANTHACE2E. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Loranthns. 



right, for except the short straight corolla and usually very short peduncle of the 

 flower, J find little to distinguish it. 



56. Zi. psilanthus, Hook. f. ; quite glabrous, robust, leaves all oppo- 

 site petioled ovate-oblong or -lanceolate acute or acuminate, spikes few-fid, 

 terminating long stout axillary peduncles, bracts decussately opposite and 

 bracteoles orbicular sheathing the base of the ovary, co*rolla 1-1^ in. very 

 slender curved tubular, lobes 6 very slender. Loranth. No. 71, Herb. 2nd. 

 Or. H.f. if T. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA and Mishmi Hills, Griffith. KHASIA MTS., alt. 4-6000 ft., 

 Griffith, &c. 



Very near L. loniceroides, and perhaps a form of that plant, but more rohust, 

 with usually larger longer-petioled leaves, longer peduncles often 1 in. long, and 

 very slender corollas bright red with yellow almost filiform lobes. 



** Bract and bracteoles oiblong\ longer than the calyx. 



57. L. albidus, Slume Bijd. 665; quite glabrous, leaves all opposite 

 petioled ovate or oblong obtuse, spikes 2-6-fld. terminating stout axillary 

 peduncles, bracts oblong twice as long as the calyx, corolla 1-1 J in. tubular 

 curved, lobes 5-6 short oblong. DC. Prodr. iv. 299. L. leucosiphon, Griff. 

 Notul. iv. 623, and Ic. PL Asiat. t. 619-623. Elytranthe albida, Blume 

 Fl. Jav. t. 22 ; Miguel Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 1, 832. 



TENASSEBIM ; at Mergui, Griffith. MALACCA, Griffith, Maingay. DISTBIB. 

 Java, Sumatra, Borneo. 



A large shrub, branches terete, bark pale. Leaves 2-3 by 1-1 'in., moderately 

 coriaceous, rarely cordate, nerves many spreading ; petiole |-| in., rather slender. 

 Peduncles \-% in., solitary or fascicled; bracts | in. long, very coriaceous, concave, 

 keeled, obtuse or subacute ; bracteoles as long, opposite, narrower. Calyx-tube short, 

 truncate, quite entire. Corolla constricted above the ovary, then rather swollen, 

 mouth constricted, white, with pale pink limb. Filaments subulate. 



58. Xi. IMainsayi, Hook. f. ; branchlets and inflorescence rusty- 

 pubescent, leaves opposite shortly petioled elliptic or obovate obtuse, flowers 

 capitate decussately inserted on a short stout sessile rachis and concealed 

 by the obtuse bracts, corolla in. quite glabrous funnel-shaped regularly 

 cleft into 6 linear recurved lobes longer than the tube. 



MALACCA, Maingay. 



Branches terete, smooth, as thick as a duck's quill, without lenticels ; nodes 

 distant, thickened. Leaves 23 in., coriaceous, midrib strong beneath, nerves very 

 slender, base acute ; petiole | in., slender. Inflorescence of scurfy heads sessile at the 

 nodes, solitary or fascicled, about f in. long, formed of about 4 pairs of decussate 

 broadly oblong obtuse caducous imbricating bracts, each at the base of a perfectly 

 glabrous sessile flower; rachis of the inflorescence very stout, 4-sided, deeply ex- 

 cavated opposite the flowers. Ovary very short ; calyx-limb cupular. Corolla 

 coriaceous, lobes spreading. Filaments linear, anthers oblong. Stiff ma capitate. 

 The specimen is a solitary one ; so allowances must be made for the description. It 

 is closely allied to L. Arnottianus, Korth, of Sumatra, which has acute bracts. 



DOUBTFUL AND EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



L. BIFLOEUS, Desrouss. in LavnTc. Encycl. iii. 600 ; DC. Prodr. iv. 302 ; Wight 8f 

 Arn. Prodr. 386, is probably one of the forms of L. Scurrula. 



L. COEIACETJS, Desrouss., which is cited by authors as a synonym of L. lonicer- 

 oides, L., is a very different plant, a native of Bourbon. 



L ? FIBMUS, Wall. Cat. 6874, is Henslovia umlellata, Bl. 



