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LORANTHACE^. 



*i47. LoRANTHUS PULCHER, DC. ; Ridl. Op. cit. p. 321; 

 antea, p. 54. Common on the trees in the Padang. 

 Distribution. Malay Peninsula. 



* 148. LoRANTHUS LoBBii, Hookfil.) Ridl. op. cit. p. 321. 

 Common up to about 5,600 feet; the little flowers are*rufous- 

 orange. 



Distribution. Common at high elevations. 



*i49. Elytranthe Robinsonii, Gamble ; Kew Bull., 45 

 (1913). On trees in the Padang woods. Endemic. 



150. ViscuM ORiENTALE, WHld. ? On a tree by the 

 stream on the Padang. I am doubtful about this species. 



151. Akceuthobium Dacrydii, n. sp. 



A small greenish-yellow parasite of Dacrydinm Beccarii, 

 an inch tall, trichotomously branched ; stems obscurely 

 4-angled, minutely papillose and rugulose ; at each node a 

 cup-shaped double bract with two small points. Flowers 

 sessile, 2 to several protruding from this connate bract. Males 

 shortly stalked ; sepals 2, ovate, keeled ; anther minute, sessile 

 on the sepals. Female ovary elliptic-ovoid, with two ovate 

 subacute sepals at the apex i mm. long. Drupe elliptic-ovate, 

 shorth' stipitate, crowned with two sepals. 



Near the Camp on the Padang. This little parasite kills 

 the branches gradually downwards, eventually apparently 

 killing the bush altogether. 



The genus is new to the Peninsula ; species occur in the 

 Palasarctic Regions of both Worlds, always parasitic on 

 conifers, usually at least on pine-trees. This species is 

 distinct in its host and the shortly stalked male flower, with 

 two developed sepals and a trace of a third. These sepals are 

 keeled and apparently do not expand. 



SANTALACE^. 



152. Henslowia Ridleyi, Gamble, Kew Bulletin, 201 

 (1912). 



A slender climber, the stems about ^ inch through, leaves 

 elliptic-obtuse to ovate, apex rounded, base rather abruptly 

 narrowed, coriaceous, with 3 parallel nerves running from the 

 base ; adult leaves greenish yellow to yellow, young ones red, 

 one inch long by half an inch wide; petiole \ inch long. 

 Male flowers in short axillary racemes, usually 2 in an axil ; 

 peduncle | inch long; flowers yellow, 2 or 3 on a raceme, 

 subumbellate at the top, shortly pedicelled. Perianth flat in 

 bud; lobes 4, acute-triangular, connate for nearly half their 

 length, base not cylindric ; whole perianth -^ inch across. 

 Stamens 4, adnate to the perianth, lobes near the base ; 

 filaments short, flat, linear; anther subglobose, 4-lobed. 

 Rudimentary stigma very small. Female flower solitary, on 

 a verv small peduncle, axillary, iisually 2 in the axil of a leaf, 

 1 inch long, red. Perianth-lobes 4 or 5, triangular-acute, with 



