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embryo green, fusiform ; radicle not distinguishable from the tigellus 

 (Talbot in Trees Bomb. ed. 2, p. 289). 



Siwalik range (Kanjilal), and eastwards along the Sub- Himalayan 

 tracts. Flowers during the cold season. DISTBIB. : Throughout 

 the greater portion of India (except the Punjab and Sind), extend- 

 ing to Ceylon and the Malay Peninsula and Islands. 



4. Ii. cordifolius, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. 2nd. (ed. Carey and Watt.) 

 ii, 222 ; Don Prod. 143 ; Brandis For. Fl. 396 ; Ind. Trees 549 ; 

 F. B. I. v, 209 ; Kanjilal For. Fl. (ed. 2), 337; Collett Fl. Siml. 



438 ; Prain Beng. PL 911. 



A stout branch -parasite ; young shoots and leaves covered with soft 

 rusty or white scurfy tomentum. Leaves opposite, orbicular or 

 broadly ovate, exceeding 3 in. in width, obtuse or rounded at the 

 apex ; base rounded or cordate ; lower surface densely white-tomen- 

 tose ; petioles about J in. long or more. Flowers f~l in. long, 

 arranged in short lateral 2-chotomous corymbs, densely rufous or 

 white-tomentose ; buds acute. Corolla slender, curved, terete ; tube 

 split behind ; lobes 4, short, acute. Fruit clavate, J in. long, tomen- 

 tose. 



Dehra Dun and Siwalik range (Kanjilal), also in N. Oudh in the Bahraich 

 forests (Duthie). Flowers during the cold season. DISTRIB. : 

 Outer Himalayan ranges from Kashmir to Nepal, up to 5,000 ft. ; 

 abundant on Woodfordia in Behar and Chota Nagpur, extending 

 southwards to the Nilgiri Hills and Ceylon. It is very closely allied 

 to L. Scurrula from which it may be distinguished by its greater 

 size, its much broader and usually cordate leaves and by the copious 

 White tomentum. 



5. longiflorus, Desr. in Lamlc. Encycl. Meth. iii 9 598 ; Brandis 

 For. Fl. 397 ; Ind. Trees 549 ; F. B. I. v, 214 ; Watt E. D. ; 

 Kanjilal For. Fl. (ed. 2), 337; Gamble Man. 583 ; Collett Fl. Siml 



439 ; Prain Beng. PL 911 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 548 ; L. bicolor, 

 JKoxb. Fl. Ind. i, 548. Vern. Banda, patha. 



A large bushy usually glabrous branch-parasite ; bark grey, smooth. 

 Leaves usually opposite, glabrous and thickly coriaceous, 3-7 in. 

 long, very variable in shape and venation, ovate elliptic or linear- 

 oblong, obtuse ; midrib prominent, usually red, secondary nerves 

 obscure ; petioles stout, J-J in. long. Fhwers in stout spreading 

 axillary or supra -axillary unilateral racemes, often two from an axil ; 

 pedicels short ; bracts broadly ovate, concave, subacute. Calyx 



