350 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
Calyx-tube without bract, bracteoles 0—4; inflo- 
rescence capitate, involucrate; anthers basi- 
fixed one : 55 .. 4 LEPEOSTEGERES. 
Calyx obsolete or represented oo a rim; flowers uni- 
sexual] (Subf. II. Viscr2). 
Anthers 2-celled, opening longitudinally. 
Plants with leaves ; flowers moncecious in jointed 
spikes, at the bases of the joints .. -. 5. GINALLOA. 
Plants withcut leaves ; flowers dicecious or mone- 
cious surrounding the bases of the internodes 6. KoORTHALSELLA. 
Anthers opening by many pores; flowers in axillary 
triads or flattened capitula. 
Plants with leaves or leafless; anthers combined 
with the perianth-lobes 45 os da, Viscom: 
Plants with leaves; anthers not combined Bo 
the perianth-lobes 50 56 .. §. NovroTHIxos. 
I have been unable to examine specimens of Nallogia Gaudichaudiana, 
H. Baill. in Bull. Soc. Linn. Par. II. 985 (1892) said to be a Malacca tree (?) 
with cylindric branches, alternate membranous leaves and axillary flowers of 
which only the ~ are known. The perianth is 5-lobed and the anthers open 
by lateral clefts. For the generic description see Baill. Hist. des Pl. XI. 478. 
1. Lorantuus, Linn. (restricted). 
Parasitic shrubs, with many branches. Leaves opposite, sub- 
opposite or alternate, usually thick and fleshy or coriaceous, entire. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, usually «coloured, in racemes spikes or 
fascicles, in the axils of the leaves or of fallen leaves, rarely terminal ; 
bract usually small, supporting the base of the calyx-tube, no 
bracteoles. Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary; the limb short, trun- 
cate or toothed, sometimes almost obsolete. Corolla polypetalous 
or gamopetalous, regular or zygomorphic; lobes 4—6, valvate, free 
or more or less connate in a tube, erect or reflexed, the tube often 
split down one side. Stamens as many as the corolla-lobes and 
adnate to them; filaments slender or thickened ; anthers basifixed, 
usually linear, opening by longitudinal cells, sometimes trans- 
versely septate. Disk none. Ovary 1-celled; style filiform, some- 
times geniculate; stigma entire, obtuse or capitate. Fruit baccate, 
usually globose ovoid or ellipsoid, crowned by the persistent calyx. 
Seed albuminous, adnate to the pericarp, often surrounded by 
glutinous pulp; testa none; embryo straight, terete. DIsTRIB. 
Most tropical countries of the Old World. 
