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coriaceous ; thyrses numerous at the ends of the branches ; flowers 

 pedicelled and umbelled, numerous; berry 6-celled. W. and A. 

 Prod. 1, 377. At Moolus, foot of the Ram Ghaut, and other 

 similar places ; pretty common. 



LXXI. ALANGIACE^E. 

 1. ALANGIUM, Linn. 



1. A LAMARCKII, Thwaites' Enum. PI Zeyl. i, 133. A small 

 tree, with the branches more or less spinescent; leaves narrow- 

 oblong or ovate-lanceolate ; flowers few, axillary fascicled, whitish ; 

 petals 6 to 10, linear reflexed ; berry small, oval. Elephanta ; Virdee 

 jungles; Concans, not uncommon ; also common in Deccan wastes. 

 Syn. A decapetalum, Hexapetalum, and Tomentosum, Lam. 



LXXII. LORANTHACE.E. 

 1. LORANTHUS, Linn. 



1 . L WALLICHIANUS, Schult. Glabrous ; branches terete ; 

 leaves somewhat alternate, ovate, obtuse, acute at the base ; racemes 

 1 to 3 axillary, a half shorter than the leaves, fascicled at the 

 knots of the branches, simple ; flowers small-pedicelled, bractes 

 lateral cucullate ; petals 4, linear-cuneate ; berry almost globular, 

 at length reflexed. Schult. syst. vii, p 100; L terrestris, Heyne; 

 L tetrandrus, Heyne. Parwar Ghaut. 



2. L CAPITELLATUS, W. and A. Prod, p 382. Glabrous ; 

 branches terete, young shoots 2-edged ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, 

 short-petioled ; petiole sharply keeled ; flowers sessile capitate, 

 few together ; heads axillary, sessile, limb of the calyx entire ; 

 flower-buds 6-angled above ; segments of corolla cuneate linear, 

 spreading. Chorla Ghaut, parasitic- on Gnidia eriocephala. 



3. ELASTICUS, Desv. in Encyc. Meth. iii, 599. Glabrous, 

 dichotomous ; branches terete ; leaves sessile, oblong or ovate- 

 lanceolate, thick and coriaceous, obscurely 5-nerved ; flowers 

 subsessile, fascicled around the knots of the branches ; corolla 

 5-cleft, one of the fissures deeper than the others ; segments long 

 narrow-linear, revolute ; fruit ovoid. Vingorla ; flowers in July. 



4. INVOLUCRATUS, Roxb. Fl Ind. i, 552. Leaves short- 

 petioled, ovate and ovate-cordate, 3 to 4 inches long; umbellets 

 axillary, crowded, subsessile; involucres 4-leaved, 4-flowered, 

 leaflets ovate-lanceolate, smooth ; corol tube villous, border 

 5-parted ; segments linear revolute ; ovary sericeous. Beemasunker, 

 Dr. Gibson. 



5. OBTUSATUS, Wall. Branches speckled; leaves opposite or 



