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1. LoxANTHERA SPECIOSA, Blume & Fisch. Fl Jav. Lor. 11. 
tt. 20 and 23 C (1828?) A parasitic shrub; branchlets terete, 
smooth, moderately stout, uppermost sub-compressed. Leaves 
opposite or sub-opposite, coriaceous; ovate or elliptic-ovate, acute 
or obtuse, sometimes retuse, at apex, attenuate, more or less un- 
equally, at base; both surfaces smooth, glabrous, olive-brown when 
dry; 8—12 cm. long, 4—6 cm. broad; midrib fairly prominent, 
dark; main nerves 6—8 pairs, very obscure as is the reticulation; 
petiole stout, I—1°5 cm. long. Flowers in axillary or sub-terminal, 
few-flowered, puberulous cymes 2—3 cm. long, the joints very fragile; 
pedicels stout, 5—8 mm. long; bract very small, ovate, embracing 
half the base of the calyx-tube. Calyx-tube cylindric, 4 mm. long, 
limb expanded in a cupula 2 mm. long, dentate on the margin. 
Corolla-tube red without, yellow within, curved, in bud 10—12 em. 
long, narrowly funnel-shaped to the insertion of the stamens and 
then constricted, clavate at apex, when open divided into 6 lobes 
narrowed at the base, spathulate above and circinately twisted, about 
4 cm. long. Stamens 6; filaments 3 cm. long, curved and thick- 
ened at apex in a right angle; anthers attached a little below the 
middle, hooked at top and bottom, 7 mm. long. Ovary cylindric ; 
style filiform; stigma red, clavate. Fruit not seen. G. Don Gen. 
Syst. ITI. 430; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. i. 822; van Tiegh. Bull. Soc. 
Bot. Fr. XLII. 448; Koord. Exkurs. Fl. Jav. II. 166. Loranthus 
Loxantherus, DC. Prodr. IV. 316. L. coccineus, Reinw. MS. (not of 
Jack); Bl. Bijdr. 664. ZL. Reinwardtianus, Schult. Syst. VII. 105: 
DC. Prodr. iv. 306. L. specitosus, King in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LVI. 
ii. 95. non BI. 
PERAK: Scortechini 1328!; on a tree on the hanks of the 
Kinta river, King’s Collector 767!. Mauacca: Griffith K.D. 2716!. 
JOHORE: Muar river bank, Curtis 3661!.—Distris. Java, Sumatra 
(Forbes 3234!), Borneo (near Kuching, Haviland !) 
3. ELYTRANTHE, Blume (amplified). 
Parasitic shrubs. Leaves opposite or subopposite, more or less 
coriaceous, entire, exstipulate. Flowers few, inspikes, racemes or pairs 
with one bract and two bracteoles which may be free or combined in 
a cup. Calyx-tube cylindric, the limb small, truncate. Corolla- 
tube usually entire, more or less cylindric or funnel-shaped, lobes 
5 or 6, usually 6,- equal, reflexed in flower. Stamens 5—6, anthers 
basifixed. Ovary enclosed in the calyx-tube, style slender, stigma 
