Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 365 
I. i. 818, 819; van Tiegh. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. XLII, 252. 
Scurrula pentandra G. Don Gen. Syst. III, 424. Hlytranthe farinosa, 
G. Don Gen. Syst. VI, 427. 
Sramgse Srates: Setul, Ridley 14921!; Trang at 30—60 m. 
alt., King’s Collector 1411!. Penana anp Sincapore: Wallich 
514A!. Prnanc: on various trees at 150—30)0 m. alt., King’s 
Collector 1299!; on Eugenia Jambos, Penang Hill, G. King!; at Penara 
Bukit, Curtis 476!; Phillips!. Province WELLESLEY: King’s Col- 
lector 1613!. Perak: at Gunong Haram, etc., Scortechini 22! , 605!; 
at Waterfall, Gunong Inas, etc., Wray 1267!, 1839! , 1903! , 2062! , 
4085!; on tree-branches at Larut, etc., King’s Collector 4931! , 7538!, 
7767!; at Pangkor, Ridley 8032!. Panane: on Hibiscus tehaceus, 
Sungei Meang, Ridley 1534!. Matacca: Maingay K.D. 685! , 687!; 
Cuming 2363! Sinearore: Lobb 293!; Hullett 345!; King’s Col- 
lector 1164!; Deschamps!; at Changi, Ridley 1930!; on trees in Bot. 
Garden, Ridley 6817! , 8901!.—-Disrris. India (E. Bengal), Burma, 
Siam, Sumatra, Java, Borneo. 
15. LoRANTHUS LONGIFLORUS Desr. in Lamk. Encycel. III 598 
(1789). A large parasitic glabrous shrub; branches stout, marked by 
prominent pale lenticels on a grey smooth bark; branchlets terete, 
smooth, the nodes swollen. Leaves coriaceous, opposite or alternate, 
very variable in shape; oval, oblong or elliptic, obtuse at apex, 
attenuate or rounded at base; both surfaces dull, olive brown when 
dry ; 9—15 cm. long, 4—7 cm. broad; midrib very stout at base but 
quickly narrowing, prominent; main nerves very irregular, about 
6—10 pairs, much branched, and joined by irregular transverse 
nervules; reticulation obscure; petiole stout, O—1l cm. long. 
Racemes axillary or from the axils of fallen leaves or from 1—2-year 
old wood, solitary or fascicled, inserted-in a shallow cup-like involucre, 
4—7 cm. long, many-flowered, usually upcurved with upcurving 
flowers; pedicels 4 mm. long, slender; bract cupular, acuminate on 
the upper side and embracing the calyx-tube. Calyz-tube short; 
limb cup-shaped, entire or minutely denticulate. Corolla pink or red, 
often with green lobes; buds 4—4°5 cm. long, curved, gradually 
enlarging upwards and clavate at tip; when open the tube 3 cm. 
long, cleft above in 5 lobes which are reflexed for 1—1°5 cm. long, 
one or two clefts often deeper than the rest. Stamens 5; anthers 
narrow, 12 mm. long, the filaments equal or shorter. Ovary sunk in 
the calyx-tube; style as long as the corolla-lobes ; stigma capitate. 
Fruit oblong, smooth or dotted, 1—1-5 em. long, crowned by the 
