354 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
Petals 5—6, linear, crimson, 2—3 cm. long, about 1 mm. broad, base 
rather broader, upper part reflexed in flower, epidermis on inner side 
thin with a layer of long unicellular hairs beneath. Stamens inserted 
near the base of the petals, very slender, apiculate; filaments 3—4 
mm. long; anthers 13—14 mm. long; cells 2, marginal, conspicuously 
transversely septate. Ovary cylindric; style filiform, angular, 
rugose, nearly 2cm. long; stigma simple. Fruit urceolate, glabrous, 
striate, 9 mm. long, 5 mm. in diam.; seed obovoid; embryo slender. 
DC. Prodr. V. 306; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 208; King in Journ. As. 
Soc. Beng. LVI. ii. 91; Brandis Ind. Trees 548; Prain Beng. Plants 
911; Koord. Exkurs. Fl. Jav. II. 157. LZ. elewtheropetalus, Kurz in 
Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XL. ii. 64 and For. Fl. II. 321. Dendrophthoe 
macrocalyx, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. i, 821. Coleobotrys heterantha, van 
Tiegh. Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. XVI. 542. 
Kepaw: on Kedah Peak, 900 m. alt., Ridley 5484!. Perak: 
at Haram Purah, Scoriechini 860!: up to 1000 m. alt., Wray 1172!, 
3234!: on trees near Larut at 750—1000 m. alt., King’s Collector 
6362!; at Temango on Durians, Ridley 14566 !. Panane: at Kwala 
Pahang, Ridley 1809!—Disrris. India (Chittagong), Burma, Siam 
(Schmidt 695!), Java, Borneo (Haviland), Sumatra (Forbes 2867 !). 
3. LORANTHUS CRASSIPETALUS, King in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 
LVI. ii. 91 (1887). A parasitic shrub; branchlets very stout, striate 
with lines from below the leaves or leafscars; bark shining, nearly 
black when dry. eaves coriaceous, alternate; elliptic or obovate, 
obtuse at apex, attenuate at base; glabrous, striolate, upper surface 
shining, lower dull; margins recurved; 4—10cm. long, 2—5 cm.broad ; 
midrib slightly prominent; main nerves invisible when fresh, obscure 
when dry as is the reticulation; petiole 5—7 mm. loug, stout. 
Racemes solitary or in pairs, axillary, stout, rigid, erect, sparsely 
many-flowered, 5—15 cm. long, the base enclosed in a thick walled 
hollow in the branchlet, and subtended by an orbicular ciliate in- 
volucral scale: rhachis angular, striate, slightly puberulous ; pedicels 
stout, at about 60° with the rhachis, 2—5 mm. long; bract broad, 
cochleate, continuing the pedicel and half embracing the calyx tube ; 
flowers erect, nearly parallel to the rhachis, the corolla in bud nar- 
rowly conical. Calyx-tube cylindric, 5—7 mm. long, striate, slightly 
puberulous; limb spreading, cupshaped, truncate, with a wavy 
margin, 1—1‘5 mm. long. Petals 5, linear, very thick, acute at tip, 
smooth and yellowish externally, ridged and bright red internally, 
18—22 mm. long, the inner epidermis layer covering a layer of 
linear unicellular hairs. Stamens very slender, inserted about 4 up 
