364 Flora of the Maayan Peninsula. 
Fruit ovoid-oblong, 8—10 mm. long, puberulous without, crowned 
by the cupular persistent calyx-limb. Ridley in Journ. Str. Br. R. 
As. Soe. LIX. 165. LZ. retusus, Wall. Cat. 504, in part only. 
Kepau: Lankawi island Curtis 2641! Vern. ‘ Bendalu apia’ ; 
on Dacrydium, the leaves red, Gunong Jerai, Ridley. SINGAPORE: 
Wallich 504! (in part only); at Changi, Ridley 1933!; in gardens 
Ridley 8064! , 8901; at Bukit Mandi, Ridley! . 
14, LoRaNTHUS PENTANDRUS Linn. Mant. 63 (1767). A parasitic 
shrub, reaching a considerable size even to 3—4 m. in height, 
branches stout ; branchlets rather stout, terete, grey, shining, upper- 
most puberulous. Leaves thickly coriaceous, subopposite, or alter- 
nate; variable in shape, lanceolate- or ovate-elliptic to nearly 
orbicular, obtuse to acute at apex, broadly attenuate to cuneate at 
base; both surfaces glabrous, dark brown or almost black when dry ; 
5—15 cm. long, 3—10 cm. broad; midrib stout, prominent, wavy ; 
main nerves 3—5 pairs, faint; reticulation not visible; petiole stout, 
6—10 mm. long, bordered above by the decurrent margins of the 
blade. Flowers in axillary, sometimes fascicled, scurfy, grey-pubes- 
cent racemes reaching 2—3 cm. long; rhachis slender, stellately pu- 
bescent as are the calyx, corolla and filaments; pedicels short, slender ; 
bract ovate, acute, 2 mm. long, embracing half the base of the calyx- 
tube. Calyx-tube ovoid or urceolate, 3 mm. long, densely grey- 
tomentose; limb shortly 5-toothed. Corolla in bud cylindric above, 
ventricose at base, puberulous, 15—20 mm. long; when open cleft 
two-thirds of the way down into 5 equal linear acute lobes which are 
reflexed at their middle; greenish outside, yellow or orange within. 
Stamens 5, erect, nearly as long as the corolla lobes; anthers linear, 
obtuse at apex, 2 mm. long; filaments flat, 5 mm. long, sparsely 
stellate-farinose. Ovary ovoid: style rather thick, angled; stigma 
capitate. Fruit ovoid, 8—10 mm. long, contracted and crowned at 
the top by the persistent calyx-limb, at first farinose at length 
glabrous; cotyledons pointed. DC. Prodr. IV 305; Bl. Bijdr. 661 ; 
Kurz For. Fl. IT. 320; Blume Fl. Jav. Loranth. 33, t.10; Korth. Verh. 
Lor. 80; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 216; King in Journ. As. Soc. Beng., 
LVI, ii. 93; Prain Beng. Plants 911; Koord. Exkurs. Fl. Jav. II. 
159. L. farinosus, Desr. in Lamk. Encyce. III. 597; Roxb. Fl. Ind. 
ed. Carey & Wall. II. 221; Wall. Cat. 514; Griff. Notul. IV. 616 
and Ic. Pl. Asiat. t. 620, f. 1, 2; L. rigidus, contractus and Finlay- 
sonianus, Wall. Cat. 531, 6864, 6871. L. maculatus and venosus BI. 
Bijdr. 662. Dendrophthoe pentandra and farinosa, Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. 
