356 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
23 A; Kurz For. Fl. II. 322; Korth. Verh. Lor. 66; Hook. f. Fl. Br. 
Ind. V. 206; King in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LVI. ii. 90; Engl. in 
Engl. & Prantl Naturl. Pflanzenfam. III. i. 185; Prain Beng. Plants 
911; Brandis Ind. Trees 548; Koord. Exkurs. Fl. Jav. II. 158. ZL. 
polycarpus, Wall. Cat. 540. L. erythrostachys, Wall. MS. Pheni- 
canthemum pentapetalum, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I.i. 823. Dendrophthoe 
pentapetala, G. Don Gen. Syst. III. 419. Lanthorus pentapetalus, 
van Tiegh. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. XLI. 488. 
Prenane: Government Hill, Maingay K.D. 691!, 692!; Curtis 
205!; on trees at 300—750 m. alt., King’s Collector 1522!; Hullett 
167!; Ridley 9364!, 10780!. PERAK: on tree branches about Larut 
and Goping up to 900 m. alt., King’s Collector 4227!, 4377!; on 
Gunong Batu Putih, 1000—1300 m. alt., Wray 406!, 466!, at the 
Cottage, Larut, 1300 m., Wray 4240!; Scortechini 390!; Ridley 2968). 
SeLancor: at Ginting Bidai, 600 m. alt., Radley 7619! Matacca: 
Griffith. K.D. 2724!, 2725!: at Serkam, Derry 1098!; Hervey!. 
PaHanec: at Pekan, Ridley 1072!. StncaporE: Lobb 327 !.—DIstTR1IB. 
India (EK. Himalaya, Assam, E. Bengal), Burma, Java, Sumatra, 
Borneo (at Kuching Ridley 11666!; Haviland), Siam (Murton 65!, 
Kerr 619!). 
5. LORANTHUS COCCINEUS, Jack in Mal. Misc. 1. 8(1820). A para- 
sitic shrub, reaching 90—120 cm. in height; branchlets stout, terete, 
light to dark brown, uppermost rusty or scurfy tomentose as are the 
innovations. Leaves coriaceous, alternate or subopposite; ovate or 
ovate-lanceolate, obtusely acute at apex, rounded or cordate at 
base; both surfaces glabrous or slightly puberulous, dark olive-green 
when dry ; 6—12 em. long, 3—7 cm. broad; midrib stout, prominent 
beneath ; main nerves 5—7 pairs, curving and meeting in loops to- 
wards the margin; reticulation irregular; petiole 10O—15 mm. long 
moderately stout. Racemes axillary, solitary or in pairs, stellately 
rusty-pubescent, 5—7 cm. long, erect or somewhat spreading, flower- 
bearing throughout; rhachis striate ; pedicels very short, thick, nearly 
at right angles to the rhachis, the flowers sideways inserted so as, at 
first at any rate, to be closely parallel to the rhachis; bract cucul- 
late, ovate, closely appressed to the calyx-tube ; flowers in bud slightly 
constricted in the middle, 5—7 mm. long. Calyx cylindyic, slightly 
constricted below the annular obscurely 4-lobed limb, 1—2 mm. long. 
Petals 4, crimson, the basal portion ovate, glabrous within, the neck 
and ligulate upper portion with frilled margins, the whole 5—7 mm. 
long, the upper parts reflexed in flower. Stamens inserted at the 
