Loranthus.] LXV. LORANTHACE.E. 397 



blade 2-3 in. long, shining above, concave and densely tomentose beneath, 

 margins recurved. Flowers in long, tomentose, rust- and cinnamon- 

 coloured outside, purple and smooth inside, subsessile in compact lateral 

 clusters ; bracts none, but a small persistent ovate acute bracteole at the 

 base of ovary. Calyx indistinctly toothed. Corolla tubular, apex sub- 

 globose in bud ; segments 4, thick, concave, ovate, acute, spreading, half 

 the length of tube. Anthers basifixed, shorter than free part of filaments. 

 Ovary cylindric, rounded at the base ; stigma capitate, 3-lobed. Berry 

 cylindric, or ovoid, J in. long. 



N.W. Himalaya from the Ravi to the Sarda, ascending to 7000 ft., on Quer- 

 cus incana, Odina Wodier, Schleichera trijuga, Randia. Oudh forests, Nepal, 

 Kasia hills (on Oaks and Mosagnus). Fl. Oct.- Jan. (most part of the year, 

 Wall.) 



5. L. umbellifer, Schultes. Syn. L. umbellatus, Wall. 1. c. 222 (not 

 Roth). Vern. Banda. 



Glabrous, with long verrucose branches. Leaves opposite, ovate-lan- 

 ceolate, glabrous, coriaceous, blade 4-6 in., petiole J in. long. Flowers 1 J 

 in. long, blood-red at base, green at top, in lateral fasciculate umbels or in 

 short corymbs ; bracts none, but small bracteoles at the base of ovary ; 

 peduncles, pedicels, ovary, and outside of corolla slightly pubescent. Calyx 

 short, 4- dentate. Corolla tubular, slender ; segments 4 linear, reflexed, 

 quarter the length of tube. Anthers basifixed; filaments short, strap- 

 shaped, free portion much shorter than anthers. Style angular, stigma 

 minute, capitate. 



Himalaya, Sutlej to Bhutan, between 3000 and 10,000 ft. Kasia hills. Has 

 been found on Rhododendron arbor eum, Andromeda, and Salix babylonica. 



6. L. longiflorus, Desrousseaux; W. & A. Prodr. 384 j Wight Ic. t. 302. 

 Syn. L. bicolor, Roxb. Cor. PL t. 139 ; Fl. Ind. i. 548. Yern. Pand, 

 amut, Pb. ; Banda, C.P. ; Patha, Banda ; Bar a manda, Beng. 



A large handsome parasite, wholly glabrous, bark grey, with numerous 

 woody branches, large leaves, and handsome flowers. Leaves thick-coria- 

 ceous, usually opposite, extremely variable in shape, from linear (L. fal- 

 catus, Linn., South India, Ceylon) to oblong broad-ovate and rotundate 

 with amplexicaul base (L. amplexifolius, DC, South India, Ceylon) ; lat- 

 eral nerves usually indistinct. Flowers large, 1J-2 in. long, the lower 

 part red, the upper green, in unilateral racemes ; pedicels as long as or 

 longer than ovary ; bracts none, but a semi-amplexicaul concave bracteole 

 at the base of ovary. Corolla tubular, curved, split half-way down between 

 two segments, swelling from the base to within a third of the mouth, then 

 contracting a little ; segments 5, linear, reflexed to one side. Anthers 

 basifixed, narrow-linear, equal in length to the free portion of filaments ; 

 filaments attached above the base of corolla-segments. Ovary glabrous, 

 cylindrical or urceolate, with a rounded base, topped by the projecting, 

 entire, or irregularly dentate calyx. Berry oblong, pulpy, crowned with 

 the cup-shaped calyx, black, J-J in. long. A remarkable form with oblong 



