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dark brown lenticellate bark, the younger ones and other parts 
covered with a rusty orange-coloured (when fresh) tomentum. Leaves 
fleshy, opposite; ovate-lanceolate, acuminate at apex, rounded or 
subcordate at base; upper surface glabrous, lower covered with a 
rusty tomentum; 8—13 cm. long, 4—5 cm. broad; midrib stout, 
raised on both surfaces; main nerves about 5—6 pairs, very obscure 
as is the reticulation; petiole 5—6 mm. long. Flowers in axillary 
racemes about 2°5 cm. long, covered with a ferruginous tomentum 
of branched multicellular hairs; bract lanceolate, acuminate, 12 mm. 
long. Calyz-tube short, cylindric, somewhat compressed in the 
middle, limb scarcely any. Corolla-tube curved, narrowed a little 
above the base then dilated and again slightly narrowed below the 
mouth, 4 cm. long, cleft on one side to about the middle, glabrous 
within; lobes 5, linear, curved, 10—12 mm. long. Stamens 5; 
anthers linear, apiculate, 3—4 mm. long; filaments slender, 5 mm. 
long. Ovary ovoid; style slender, longer than the stamens; stigma 
subclavate. Fruit (immature) lageniform, densely rusty tomentose 
without, 8—10 mm. long. 
PAHANG: on Casuarina equisetifolia, Forst, at Sungei Meang. 
Ridley 1526!. 
13. Lorantuus crassus, Hook. f.in Fl. Br. Ind. V. 217 (1886). 
A parasitic shrub; branchlets stout, the younger ones with smooth 
grey bark and few lenticels, the older ones rough with many lenticels ; 
nodes swollen. Leaves'very thickly coriaceous, opposite subopposite 
or alternate, very variable in shape; elliptic, ovate-oblong or oblong- 
lanceolate, sometimes nearly orbicular, obtusely acute at apex, 
rounded or attenuate at base; both surfaces dark brown and opaque 
when dry; 8—18 cm. long, 4—10 cm. broad; midrib very stout | 
especially at base, raised on both surfaces; main nerves irregular, 
5—6 pairs, distinct when dry, curving upwards to disappear near 
the margin; reticulation not visible; petiole very stout, 5—7 mm. 
long. Flowers in axillary racemes up to 12 mm. long; the racemes 
about 5—6-flowered, densely furfuraceous; pedicels very short, 
stout; bracts ovate, acute, 1—2 mm. long. Calyz-tube globose or 
urceolate, the limb truncate, faintly lobed. Corolla straight, funnel- 
shaped, not or only very slightly split on one side, 17—18 mm. long, 
equally cleft to a little below the middle into 5 linear lobes, reflexed 
for half their length. Stamens 5; anthers linear, 2—3°5 mm. long, 
as long as the stellately puberulous filaments. Ovary ovoid; style 
slender, nearly as long as the corolla-lobes; stigma large, capitate. 
