62 LORANTHACEJE. [ LOEANTHUS. 



linear, reflexed from the middle. Ovary urceolate, rusty-pubescent. 

 Fruit J in. long, ovoid, truncate, brown when ripe. 

 Dehra Dun, occasionally met with in the forests (Kanjilal); Siwalik 

 range in the Timli Pass (Griffith). Flowers May- July. DISTRIB. : 

 Outer Himalayan ranges from the Jumna to Sikkim, ascending to 

 4,000 ft. ; also in Assam, the Khasia Hills and in Chittagong. 



2, Ii. pulverulentus, Wall, in Eoxb. Fl. 2nd. (ed. Carey and Wall.) 

 ii, 221 ; Brandis For. Fl. 396 ; Ind. Trees 549 ; F. B. I. v, 211 ; 

 Kanjilal For. Fl. (ed. 2), 337 ; Gamble Man. 582 ; Prain Beng. 

 PI. 911. 



A robust branch-parasite ; branchlets and young leaves clothed with 

 white flocculent fugacious mealy tomentum. Leaves opposite, long- 

 petioled, 2-8 in. long, broadly ovate, acute or obtuse, glabrous, dark- 

 brown when dry ; nerves distinct, arching. Racemes solitary or in 

 fascicles, J-2J in. long ; bracts minute. Flowers about 1 in. long, on 

 long pedicels, scurfUy white -tomentose. Calyx-limb none. Corolla 

 slender, curved, green when fresh, cream-coloured when dry ; 

 tube terete, split above ; lobes 4, connate. Fruit clavate, mealy. 



Forests of Dehra Dun and Saharanpur, and in the Sub-Himalayan 

 tracts eastwards ; often found on dhdk, sTiisham and on other trees 

 Flowers Dec. -June. DISTRIB. : Subtropical Himalaya, from Chamba 

 and Garhwal to Bhutan, up to 3,000 ft., also in N. Bengal and in the 

 C. Provinces. 



3, L. Scurrula, Linn. Sp. PL ed. 2, 472 ; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. i, 550 ; 

 F. B. I. v, 208 ; Kanjilal For. Fl. (ed. 2), 336 ; Gamble Man. 

 82 ; Prain Beng. PI. 911 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 546 ; Brandis Ind. 

 Trees 549. 



A large bushy branch -parasite, very variable. Branches terete ; bark 

 often copiously lenticellate ; young parts rusty-tomentose. Leaves 

 opposite, sessile or stalked, coriaceous, 1J-3 in. long, less than 3 in. 

 wide, elliptic or ovate-oblong, obtuse, glabrous or nearly so above, 

 more or less rusty-tomentose beneath, or subglabrous beneath (when 

 mature) ; base sub-acute or rounded, rarely sub-cordate. Flowers 

 % 1 in. long, arranged in axillary short-peduncled rusty or grey-tomen- 

 tose sub-racemose fascicles ; pedicels slender ; buds clavate ; bracts 

 minute, obliquely ovate, concave, tomentose. Calyx subcuneate ; 

 limb truncate, very short. Corolla greenish-yellow, tomentose ; lobes 



4, narrow, acute. Fruit J- j- in. long, pyriform, tomentose. Albumen 

 pink, obtusely quadrangular at the radicle end, the other end termina- 

 ting in a hard elongated point, surrounded by a green sticky layer ; 



