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puberulous when young, later glabrescent ; pedicels slender, 2 mm. 
long, then bifid, the branches as long again; bract and bracteoles 
minute, caducous ; perianth in bud clavate, slender, thin, 7—8 mm. 
long, the lobes oblong acute ; hypogynous scales free, ovate, obtuse, 
1 mm. long. Stamens 4; anthers oblong, connective apiculate; 
filaments short, flattened. Ovary ovoid, ferruginous-villous ; style 
5—6 mm. long, very slender; stigma narrowly cylindric. Fruit not 
known. 
PENANG: at Penara Bukit, 450 m. alt., Curtis 3020!. 
Family CVII. LORANTHACEA:. 
Evergreen shrubs, rarely herbs, usually parasitic on the branches 
of trees; stems much-branched, often jointed. Leaves usually 
opposite sometimes alternate, coriaceous, entire, sometimes reduced 
to scales or absent ; stipules none. lowers regular or zygomor- 
phic, hermaphrodite or unisexual, sometimes large and brightly 
coloured, sometimes inconspicuous ; racemose, spicate, capitate or 
fascicled, usually bracteate and often with 2 or more bracteoles 
Calyx adnate to the ovary; limb annular or cupular, truncate, 
entire or shortly toothed, sometimes none. Petals or perianth seg- 
ments 3-—8, valvate, free or more or less connate in atube. Stamens 
as many as, and opposite to, the petals and more or less adnate 
to them ; filaments slender or none; anthers basifixed or dorsifixed, 
opening by longitudinal slits or’ by rows of cells or by pores. 
Ovary inferior, 1-celled ; usually without distinct placenta or ovule ; 
style short or long; stigma simple or hardly lobed. Fruit a 
l-seeded berry or drupe with fleshy pericarp and often viscid 
mesocarp. Seed solitary without distinct testa; albumen fleshy 
or absent ; embryos 1, rarely 2, with distinct hypocotyl and 2 or more 
cotyledons; radicle superior. Distrip. Chiefly tropical, a few in 
temperate regions. Many species. 
Calyx present though the limb is sometimes reduced to 
merely a rim ; flowers hermaphrodite (Subf. I. Loran- 
THEA). 
Calyx-tube supported by a bract, no bracteoles 
Anthers basifixed is Se .. 1. Lorantaus. 
Anthers dorsifixed a .. 2. LOxANTHERA. 
Calyx-tube supported by a bract and two bracteoles ; 
anthers basifixed oe a6 .. 3. HELYTRANTHE. 
