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tip, embryo minute. Hook. f. in Fl. Br. Ind. V. 205; King in Journ. 
As. Soc. Beng. lvi. ii. 90. ZL. spectosus, Wall. Cat. 578. L coccineus, 
Hook. Bot. Misc. t. 58 (not of p. 278). Dendrophthoe pulcher, Miq. 
Fl. Ind. Bat. I. i. 821. Chiridiwm speciosum, van Tieghem in Bull. 
Soc. Bot. Fr. XLT. 541. 
Siamese Srates: Setub, Ridley 14923!. Kepan: Rawei island, 
Ridley 15704!. Prenane: Porter (Wallich 578)!; Phillips!; at 90— 
300 m. alt., King’s Collector 2281!, 4868!; Curtis 394!; on Penang 
Hill, Ridley 9390!. Perak: at Sungie Larut, etc., Wray 2296!, 
3225!; on hills up to 1200 m. alt., King’s Collector 6257!, 6407!, 
10540!. Panana: at Tahan river, Ridley 2410!2% (leaves very shining 
and thinner). 
L. puniceus, Wall. Cat. 522; Hook. f, Fi. Br. Ind. V. 223 seems to be this 
species and was identified with it, in the Calcutta Herbarium, by the late 
Sir George King, 
var. Parishii. Leaves linear lanceolate, verticilled at the summit. 
Racemes subterminal in the axils of the whorl of leaves. LZ. Parishii, 
Hook. f. in Fl. Br. Ind. V. 205. JZ. perakensis, Engl. in Engl. & 
Prantl Nachtr. 129. Chiridium verticillatum, van Tieghem in Bull. 
Soc. Bot. Fr. XLI, 541. 
Perak: Scortechini 231!; at Larut at about 300 m. alt., King’s 
Collector 6278!. SELANGOR: at Bukit Kutu, Ridley 7617!.—DistTR1B. 
Tenasserim (Parish 3005!); Siam (Kerr 17631) 
2. LORANTHUS HETERANTHUS, Wall. Cat. 537 (1828). A stout 
parasitic shrub reaching 3 m. or more in height, nearly glabrous; branch- 
lets stout, terete, dark brown or nearly black, older shining; leaf and 
raceme scars very prominent. Leaves coriaceous, alternate or oppo- 
site; elliptic or oblong-lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, obtusely acute 
at apex, attenuate at base ; both surfaces glabrous, upper shining and 
obliquely striolate, lower dull, pale yellowish-brown when dry; mar- 
gins subsinuous, recurved; 7—13cm. long, 2—5 cm. broad; midrib 
rather slender, raised on both surfaces; main nerves about !0 pairs, 
joined in loops near the margin, obscure as is the reticulation ; petiole 
stout, 2—3 cm. long, easily disarticulated. Racemes solitary or 2—3 
together, terminal and axillary, the base more or less immersed in the 
branchlets, surrounded by a shallow cup, often curved, red, rusty- 
puberulous when young, up to 17 em. long, very sparsely flowered ; 
rhachis angular; pedicels stout, at right angles to rhachis, about 1 
em. long; bract lateral, boatshaped, concave, ciliate; flowers in bud 
curved upwards, very slender, acute, about 3—4 cm. long. Calyx 
cylindric, 7—8 mm. long, striate, limb slightly spreading, entire. 
