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axils of the leaves or of fallen leaves; peduncle stout, about 3 mm. 
long; pedicels 3—4 mm. long; bract ovate, concave, 1—5 mm. 
long; bracteoles 2, smaller, obtuse or slightly acute. Calyx-tube 
cylindric, the limb obscurely toothed, slightly spreading. Corolla 
tube bright crimson, 4—6 cm. long, curved, gradually inflated above 
and again constricted at the mouth below the lobes; lobes in bud 6, 
greenish, the tips purple, obovate, afterwards reflexed and twisted, 
1—2 em. long, thickened in a broad ridge inside. Stamens 6; fila- 
ments broad, 1 cm. long; anthers linear-oblong, 4 mm. long, 
minutely apiculate. Ovary cylindric; style filiform, geniculate near 
the top: stigma obtuse. Fruit not seen. Engl. & Prantl Naturl. 
Pfilanzenfam. Nachtr. 126; Koord. Exkurs. Fl. Jav. IJ. 164. Lor- 
anthus formosus, Bl. Bijdr. 664 and Fl. Jav. Loranth. t. 15; DC. 
EmedrstV..297;, Kurz For) HI. (1: 317: Hook. £. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 220: 
King in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LVI. ii. 95 Macrosolen formosus, 
Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. i. 827; van Tiegh. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. XLI 
442. 
PERAK: Scortechini 392!; at Gunong Batu Putih, lower camp 
and-summit, 1800 m. alt., Wray 484!, 873!; on trees at 1000—1200 
m. alt., King’s Collector 2170! , 6264!; at Bujong Malacca, 700—800 
m. alt., Curtis 3322! .—Distris. Burma (Griffith K.D. 2729); Java. 
The description has been largely taken from that of Scortechini. 
4. ELYTRANTHE KuNnSsTLERI, Gamble. A large parasitic shrub, 
usually up to 1 m. in height, sometimes reaching 3 metres, all parts 
glabrous; branches stout, swollen at the nodes, the bark pale brown; 
branchlets stout, terete, pale. Leaves coriaceous, opposite; ovate 
to ovate-oblong, acuminate at apex, rounded at base; both surfaces 
shining, somewhat bullate and olive-brown when dry; margins 
recurved; 15—25 cm. long, 6—12 cm. broad; midrib very stout, 
prominent on both surfaces; main nerves 6—10 pairs, prominent, 
impressed above, raised beneath, irregular, curving to disappear 
a little short of the margin; secondary nerves also prominent, but 
much shorter, reticulation obscure; petiole 0 or stout and scarcely 
3 mm. long. Flowers in few- (about 5-) flowered cymes 1—1°5 cm. 
long, single or clustered in the axils of the leaves or of fallen leaves ; 
peduncle stout, about 5 mm. long; pedicels 5—7 mm. long; bract 
ovate, acute, 2—3 mm. long; bracteoles smaller, obtuse, all concave. 
Calyx-tube cylindric, smooth, 6 mm. long, the limb truncate, wavy, 
slightly spreading. Corolla clavate and boldly 6-angled in bud; 
