366 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
cupular calyx-limb. DC. Prodr. 1V, 304; Roxb. Fl. Ind. Ed. Carey 
and Wall. II, 217; Wight & Arn. Prodr. iv. 384; Dalz. & Gibs. 
Bomb. Fl. 110; Brandis For. Fl. 397 and Ind. Trees 549; Kurz For. - 
Fl. II. 321; Wall. Cat. 507; Wight Ic. t. 302; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. 
V. 214; Trimen FI. Ceyl. III, 468; Cooke Fl. Bomb. II. 548; Prain 
Beng. Plants 910. JL. bicolor, Roxb. Corom. Pl. II. 20 t. 139; FI. 
Ind. I. 548, IT. 185; Wall. Cat. 499. LD. Wightianus, Wall. Cat. 6872. 
Dendrophthoe longiflorus, van Tiegh. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. XLII. 
252. Scurrula longiflora, G. Don Gen. Syst. Il, 423. < Valli-ithi- 
cauni’ Rheede Hort. Mal. X. 5, t. 4. 
Matacca: Griffith 1710!.—Distris. India, Burma, Ceylon. 
16. LoRANTHUS GRANDIFRONS, King in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 
LVI. ii, 93 (1887). A parasitic shrub reaching 99—120 ecm. in height : 
branches stout with dark greyish-brown roughly lenticellate bark ; 
branchlets terete, rather slender, little swollen at the nodes; dark- 
brown. Leaves alternate or sub-opposite or rarely opposite, thickly 
coriaceous; broadly ovate or lanceolate, acute or acuminate at apex, 
rounded or cordate at base; both surfaces dull, sparsely pulverulent, 
upper often bullate, dark brown when dry; margin recurved ; 12— 
27 cm. long, 6—16 cm. broad; midrib very stout, slightly raised 
above, very prominent beneath; main nerves 4—6 pairs, prominent, 
especially on the lower surface, the lower pairs from near the base, 
the others distant, all curving upwards and joined in loops towards 
the margin; secondary nerves and transverse nervules also prominent 
beneath ; petiole very stout, 15—3 cm. long. Flowers in racemes 
from the axils of the leaves or of fallen leaves; the racemes 6—10 
em. long, densely covered with grey pulverulent sub-deciduous more 
or less stellate tomentum, erect or curved, about 30-flowered; 
pedicels short, about 3 mm. long, thick; bract small, ovate, acute, 
embracing the base of the calyx-tube. Calyx-tube cylindric, inflated 
at base, 3—5 mm. long; limb 5—6 toothed. Corolla-tube cylindric, 
slender, base whitish, upper parts pink, 6—8 ecm. long, curved, 5- 
ribbed, more or less inflated above the middle; lobes 5, red within, 
nearly 2 cm. long, the upper | cm. reflexed, linear. Stamens 5, ex- 
sert; anthers linear, fattened, obtuse, 5—6 mm. long; filaments flat, 
4 mm. long, stellate-pulverulent. Ovary ovoid; style filiform, 
angular, slightly longer than the stamens; stigma subglobose. Fruit 
ovoid, thickly grey-pulverulent, crowned by the persistent calyx- 
limb, 8 mm. long, 6 mm. in diam. 
