360 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
prominent in a dry state; petiole rather thick, 4—5 mm. long, tomen- 
tose. Flowers in axillary fascicles, single or in short few-flowered 
racemes about as long as the petiole, densely mossy-tomentose ; 
pedicels short ; bract ovate, obtuse, 1—2 mm. long, clasping the base 
of the calyx tube. Calyz-tube obovoid, 5—6 mm. long; limb stout, 
constricted at the mouth. Corolla-tube in bud slender, curved, 
clavate, the tip obtuse, 10—12 mm. long, when open cleft about haif- 
way down on one side; lobes 4, short, obtuse, thick. Stamens 4; 
anthers 1 mm. long, apiculate; filaments as long or slightly longer, 
flat. Ovary obovoid; style slender, 4-angled; stigma scarcely capi- 
tate. Fruit pyriform, the stalk gradually attenuate downwards, the 
mouth contracted, about 1 cm. long. DC. Prodr. IV. 298. L. 
Scurrula, L. var. obtecta, Kurz For. Fl. 11. 319; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. 
V. 209. LZ. Seurrula, L. var. levigata, Hook. f. l.c. Dendrophthoe 
obtectus, G. Don Gen. Syst. Ili. 419. 
TRANG: on branches of trees on low ground, King’s Collector 
(Kunsiler) 1418!. Prrak: Maxwell’s hill, 1500 m. alt., Fox 120!. 
Matacoa: Griffith K. D. 2733! , 2735!; at Bukit Senggeh, Goodenough 
1833!. JoHoRE: at Kota Tinggyi, etc., Ridley 4212!, 11031!.— 
DistTRis. Burma. 
The Malay L. obtectus, Wall., seems to me to be distinct from the Indian 
D. Seurrula so I have thought it best to retain Wallich’s name instead of 
describing the material under L. Scurrula var. obtecta as is done in the Fl. Br. 
Ind. It Oe Verse Meat L. Schultesii, Blame of Java. I have carefully ex- 
amined the original specimens of L. Scurrula, Linn. Sp. Pl. Ed. Il. 472 now in 
the possession of ‘thie Linnean Society, and consider that the Malay specimens 
now under consideration do not agree with it. The leaves have a, different 
shape, the flowers are rather larger and the fruit is less truncate while all the 
parts are more conspicuously tomentose. 
9. LorantTHus FERRUGINEUS, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. 
Il. 207 (1824). A parasitic shrub with long pendulous branches ; 
branchlets terete, moderately slender, the bark greyish-brown, minute- 
ly lenticellate, uppermost parts, like the under surface of the leaves, 
the innovations and the inflorescence covered with dense ferruginous 
mossy tomentum of jointed squarrose hairs. Leaves opposite or 
sub-opposite, coriaceous; uniform in shape, elliptic, very obtusely 
acute at apex, rounded at base; upper surface dark brown or black 
when dry; 4—10 cm. long, 2—6 cm. broad; midrib slender, often 
zigzag; main nerves 5—8 pairs, irregular, branching and joined in 
loops towards the margin; reticulation obscure; petiole 7—8 mm. 
long, rough, channelled above. Flowers in axillary fascicles of few- 
