374 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
tube bright yellow, shghtly curved, inflated at the base of the limb, 
5—6 cm. long: lobes 6, bright green externally, dark red within, 
reflexed, sub-spathulate, 1'3—2:°5 cm. long, broadened below, with 
a broad thick ridge internally, the tips acute. Stamens 6; 
filaments stout; anthers linear, 7—8 mm. long, obtuse at apex. 
Ovary cylindric; style slender; stigma truncate. Fruit ovoid, 14mm. 
long, 8 mm. broad, bright yellow when fresh, black when ripe; seed 
ovoid, 1 cm. long, suleate. Loranthus Kunstlert, King in Journ. As. 
Soc. Beng. LVI. ii. 95 (1887). Macrosolen Kunstlert, van Tiegh. 
in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. XLII. 442. 
PERAK: on trees from sea level up to 2650 m. alt. near Larut, 
Goping and Thaiping, King’s Collector 2669! , 2760!, 6009! , 8460!. 
Dinpines: at Telok Sera, Ridley 8030!. Panane: Taban river 
and Kadonding Pulau, Ridley!.—Distris. Borneo? (Haviland). 
5. ELYTRANTHE PLATYPHYLLA, Gamble. A glabrous parasitic 
shrub; branchlets stout, pale brown, quadrangular. Leaves coria- 
ceous, opposite or subopposite ; broadly ovate-rotund or suborbicular, 
obtusely rounded at apex, cordate at base; both surfaces smooth, 
olive green when dry; margins unequally and remotely crenate or 
entire ; 9—12 cm. long and broad; midrib prominent, thick at base 
but quickly narrowing; main nerves 4—6 pairs, chiefly from near the 
base, spreading to anastomose near the margin; reticulation irregu- 
larly areolate; petiole very stout, scarcely 2 mm. long. Flowers 
in very short axillary racemes of about 4; bract ovate, acute; brac- 
teoles joined in a hemispheric minutely margined cup. Calyz-tube 
cylindric, truncate, the limb scarcely lobed. Corolla large, curved, 
tubular, red, expanding slightly upwards, 6-angled and inflated below 
the apex, the tube 8—9 cm. long; lobes 6, green, 2 cm. long, reflexed, 
linear-lanceolate or subspathulate, blunt and inflexed at the tips, 
broadly thick-ridged within, spreading at base. Stamens 6; anthers 
linear, with a minute spur at base, 7 mm. long; filaments thick, 10 
mm.long. Ovary cylindric; style filiform ; stigma small, subcapitate. 
Fruit not known. Loranthus platyphyllus, King in Journ. As. Soc. 
Beng. LVI. ii. 97 (1887) not of Rich. 
Perak: Scortechini 606?!: SrLancor: at Ginting Bidai, Rid- 
ley 7618!. JoHorE: at Sungei Hulu Sembrong, Lake and Kelsall ! 
6. ELYTRANTHE AVENIS, G. Don Gen. Syst. Dichl. Pl. IIT. 426 
(1834). A parasitic shrub reaching 1°5 m. in height, glabrous; 
branchlets angular, moderately stout, with rough scaly reddish- 
