Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 355 
the petal: filaments quadrangular, 2—5 mm. long; anthers 8 mm. 
long with two very narrow transversely septate cells. Ovary 
cylindric; style filiform, quadrangular, rugose; stigma minute. 
Fruit not known. Coleobotrys crassisepala, van. Tiegh. in Bull. Soc. 
Bot. Fr. XLI 542 ? 
PERAK: on Gunong Idjou, Scortechini 363!, 521; camp on Ulu 
Batang Padang, 1500 m. alt., Wray 1507!; Larut Hills, Rildey! 
Ridley’s specimenin Herb. Singap. has the same flowers, but the leaves are 
larger and the racemes longer than in the other ones. 
4, LORANTHUS PENTAPETALUS, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey and Wall. 
IT. 211 (1824). A large much branching parasitic shrub reaching 
90—120 cm. in height; branchlets stout, terete, with dark blackish 
grey bark, glabrous, the youngest alternately compressed. Leaves 
coriaceous, opposite or sometimes alternate; ovate or ovate-lanceo- 
late, sometimes elliptic or suborbicular, acute or acuminate, often 
obliquely, at apex, rounded or attenuate at base; both surfaces dark 
green and glabrous when fresh, the uppermost with purplish margins, 
nearly black when dry; 6—12 cm. long, 2--7 cm. broad; midrib 
stout, prominent beneath; main nerves about 6—8 pairs, very faint ; 
reticulation irregular, obscure ; petiole 1—2 cm. long, rather slender, 
furrowed. Racemes solitary or in pairs or threes from the axils of the 
leaves or of fallen leaves, 10—20 cm. long, all parts bright red in 
colour except the yellow tips of the petals, flower bearing almost to 
the base which is sunk in a circular protuberance of the branchlets; 
rhachis glabrous or slightly puberulous, slightly angular; pedicels 
very short, thick, at right angles to the rhachis, the flowers ascending 
so as, at first at any rate, to be parallel to the rhachis ; bract ovate, 
acute, ciliate, appressed to the calyx tube; flowers in bud constricted 
in the middle, the basal part nearly globose. Calyx cylindric, 
2—3 mm. long, the limb obscurely toothed. Petals 5, the basal 
portion obovate, thick, glabrous and convex within, the neck trans- 
versely rugose, the upper portion ligulate, acute, reflexed in flower, 
the whole 6 mm. long. Stamens inserted above the neck of the 
petals; filaments broad, 1—2 mm. long ; anthers elliptic, 1 mm. long, 
the inner valve of each cell shorter than the outer. Ovary shortly 
eylindric ; style slender, 5 mm. long, jointed in the middle, rugose, 
the lower half 4—5-angled, the upper slender ; stigma small, subtrun- 
cate. Fruit crimson, ellipsoid, truncate at apex, 7 mm. long, 5 mm. 
in diam., seed obovoid. Roxb. Fl. Ind. I, 553; DC. Prodr. IV. 295: 
Wall. Pl. As. Rar. III. t. 225 and Cat. 503; Griff. Notul. IV. 617 
and Ic. Pl. Asiat. tt. 624, 625; Blume FI. Jav. Loranth. 39, tt. 14, 
