Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 357 
neck of the petals; filaments flat, 2 mm. long; anthers oblong, obtuse, 
the cells very narrow, marginal, separated by a broad connective. 
Ovary ovoid, 4-angled, the neck narrowed ; style slender, 4-sided, not 
jointed; stigma large, reniform, capitate. Fruit reddish-brown, ob- 
tusely 4-angled, flask-shaped, truncate at tip, 8 mm. long; seed 4- 
angled. Hook. Bot. Misc. I. 278 (excl. t. 58); Roxb. Fl. Ind. Ed. 
Carey and Wall. II. 215; DC. Prod. IV. 296; Griff. Notul. TV. 620 
- and Ie. Pl. Asiat. t. 626; Kurz For. Fl. II. 322; Korth. Verh. Lor. 68 ; 
Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 206; King in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LVI. ii. 
91; Brandis Ind. Trees 549. JL. racemiferus, Wall. Cat. 539; DC. Lc. 
Phoenicanthemum coccineum, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. 825; van Tiegh. 
in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. XLI. 544. P. Bennettianum, Miq. l.c. 826. 
Dendrophthoe coccineus, G. Don Gen. Syst. II. 419. D. ? racemi- 
ferus, G. Don. l.c. 
PENANG: on trees at 250—300 m. alt., King’s Collector 4914!; 
Government Hill, Curtis 243!. Prraxk: at Waterfall Hill, etc., 250 m. 
alt. Wray 2582 !, 3270!; Scortechini 261!; on trees near Larut and 
Goping, King’s Collector 1017!, 2323!, 8124!, 10524!. Pauane: at 
Kwala Pahang, Ridley 1427!. SeLanaor: at Labu river, Ridley 
7616!. Manacca: Griffith K.D. 2718!: Maingay K.D. 690!; at 
Bukit Senggeh, Goodenough 1453!. Jonore: at Bukit Kayara, Ridley 
11340!. Sincapore: at Bukit Mandai, Ridley’s Collector 6697!.— 
Distris. India (Cachar), Burma, Andamans, Borneo (at Kuching 
Haviland 472!), Bangka. 
6. LornantTHusS PRODUOCTUS, King in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LVI. ii. 
91 (1887). <A parasitic glabrous shrub with long branches; branch- 
lets strongly 4-angled, slightly flattened especially at the nodes, dark 
brown to nearly black when dry. Leaves coriaceous, opposite ; 
lanceolate or ovate, obtusely acute at apex, cuneately attenuate, 
often unequally, at base; blue-green when fresh, black-brown when 
dry and much wrinkled on both surfaces; margins subsinuate, re- 
curved; 6—12 cm. long, 3—6 cm. broad ; midrib stout, prominent 
on both surfaces ; main nerves 3—8, very irregular, curving to and 
along the margin and joined in loops; reticulation obscure; petiole 
stout, 7—15 mm. long, bordered by the decurrent margins of the 
blade. Flowers crowded in axillary clusters, sessile; bract a short 
cylindric obscurely 2—4-crenate tube 4 mm. long, enveloping the 
calyx-tube; flowers in bud clavate about 1 cm. long. Calyz-tube 
very short; limb cylindric, truncate, dentate, ciliate on the margins, 
4—5 mm. long. Petals 4, free, linear-oblong, acute, thick, 10—13 
