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Corolla gamopetalous, 4-5 lobed or-partite, the 

 tube split above ; anther-cells indistinct ; 

 flowers nearly always mealy or scurfy : 



Corolla 4-fid. ; calyx hardly produced above 

 the ovary ; leaves mealy or scurfy on the 

 lower and usually also on the upper sur- 

 face : 



Fruit mealy, clavate ; young shoots and 

 leaves covered with flocculent white fuga- 

 cious mealy tomentum ; flowers long- 

 pedicelled in solitary or fascicled racemes, 

 scurfy white -tomentose . . . . 2. L. pulverulentuz.. 



Fruit tomentose, pyriform ; young shoots 

 and leaves covered with short soft rusty or 

 white scurfy tomentum : 



Leaves less than 3 in. wide, sessile or 

 shortly petioled ; base cuneate or round- 

 ed, rarely subcordate, appressed tomen- 

 tose or glabrate beneath . . 3. L. Scurrula.. 



Leaves large, exceeding 3 in. in width, 

 orbicular or broadly ovate ; base cor- 

 date or rounded, densely tomentose 

 beneath; petioles long . . 4. L. cordifolius.. 



Corolla 5-fid. ; calyx distinctly produced above 

 the ovary ; leaves and flowers glabrous ; 

 fruit oblong . . . . . . 5. L. longiflorus. 



L. ligustrinus, Wall in Roxb. Fl. Ind. (ed. Carey and Wall.) 

 ii, 219 ; Don. Prod. 143 ; Brandis For. Fl. 395 ; Ind. Trees 549 ; 

 F. B. I. v, 207 ; Kanjilal For. FL (ed. 2), 336 ; Gamble Man. 582 ; 

 Prain Beng. PL 811. 



A parasitic shrub, or sometimes a small terrestrial tree parasitic on 

 roots ; young shoots and inflorescence rusty-pubescent ; bark pale- 

 coloured, closely lenticellate. Leaves glabrous, opposite or the upper 

 alternate, 1J-2J in. long, lanceolate, obtuse acute or acuminate, pen- 

 ninerved, brown or black when dry, thinly coriaceous ; nerves obscure 

 base acute ; petioles J- in. Racemes axillary, single or hi pairs, J-in. 

 long. Flowers 4-merous, J-in. long ; pedicels very short ; buds sub- 

 terete, swollen at the base ; bracts rather large, orbicular. Calyx- 

 limb entire. Corolla pink outside, deep-red within. Petals 4, free,. 



