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Ridley 8020!; on Penang hill, Ridley 10183!. PrRak: on trees 
on the hills about Larut, Goping, etc., up to 1500 m. alt., King’s 
Collector 2643!, 4486!, 5011!, 6294!, 8061!, 11024!; Scortechini!; 
at lower camp and to the summit of Gunong Batu Putih, 1000— 
2000 m. alt., Wray 357!, 933!, 1018!, 2521!; at Gunong Hijan, 
Ridiey 2969!. SmLancor : at Samangko Pass, Ridley, 2058!. PAHANG: 
at Tahan river, Ridley 2251!; at Gunong Tahan, Wray & Robinson 
5485!: Ridley 16095!. Jonore: at Kukub, Ridley 13261!. Sinea- 
pore: at Changi and Chanchukang, Ridley!. 
Van Tieghem in his paper in the Bulletin of the Société Botanique de 
France, Vol. XLI. 533 entitled ‘ Quelques complements a 1’étude des Loranthées 
& ealice dialysépale et anthéres basifixes’’ has expressed the opinion that there 
are four species distinct from each other in the material arranged and distri- 
buted by Sir G. King after writing his paper on the species of Loranthus indi- 
genous in Perak. They are thus characterized and separated : 
Leaves sessile. . sve a . 1. Baratranthus Lobbii. 
Leaves petiolate, broad, often unequal-sided, their 
surfaces similar, their lateral nerves visible even 
on the upper surface .. ei .. 2. Baratranthus Kingii 
(King’s Collector 2643, 6294). 
Leaves petiolate, their surfaces similar, their 
lateral nerves not visible ae .. 3. Baratranthus Scortechiniz 
(Scortechini—no number). 
Leaves petiolate, their surfaces dissimilar the 
lower being reddish yellow 33 .. 4. Baratranthus bicolor 
(King’s Collector 4486, 11024). 
The question of absence of petiole in ZL. Lobbiz is not borne out by the 
specimens quoted by Hooker in the FI. Br. Ind., for both Maingay’s and 
Curtis’ specimens show short petioles. The other characters quoted do not 
seem to be constant so I prefer to leave the material as sorted by Sir George 
King and not to attempt a subdivision which I do not myself believe to be 
warranted. 
8. Lorantuus optectus, Wall. Cat. 534 (1828). A parasitic 
‘shrub with slender pendulous branches; branchlets slender, terete, 
greyish-brown, shining, with small raised lenticels, uppermost with 
innovations and inflorescence thickly covered with a tomentum of 
rusty-red, mossy, jointed hairs. Leaves chartaceous, opposite or sub- 
opposite; ovate-lanceolate or elliptic-oblong, obtusely acute at apex, 
rounded or cordate at base ; both surfaces blackish-brown when dry, 
upper smooth, glabrous when mature, lower also glabrous except the 
midrib when old, thickly rusty-tomentose when young; 3—S8 cm. 
long, 1:5—5 cm. broad; midrib slender, main nerves 7—8 pairs, irre- 
gular, joined in arches towards the margin; reticulation fairly 
