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thickened in a ridge within, twisted and reflexed in flower, 1°5—2 cm. 
long. Stamens 6; anthers linear, acute at apex, slightly spurred in 
front at base, 7—8 mm. long; the filaments as long. Ovary short, 
cylindric; style slender, geniculate below the top; stigma obliquely 
capitate. Fruct not known. 
PERAK: in Upper Perak at 300 m. alt., Wray 3770!. 
4. LEPEOSTEGERES, Blume. 
Parasitic shrubs. Leaves coriaceous, entire, exstipulate, opposite 
or sub-opposite. Inflorescence consisting of a sessile capitulum sur- 
rounded by sheathing imbricate involucral bracts, gradually lengthen- 
ing upwards and sometimes with an inner series; flowers in each 
capitulum few—many, sessile on a flattened receptacle ; bract to each 
flower 0; bracteoles O—+, often elongate. Calyx-tube short, cylin- 
dric or angular, the limb entire or shortly lobed. Corolla-tube 
elongate sometimes cleft to the base, slender, the 5—6 lobes reflexed 
when open. Stamens 5—6 inserted at the mouth of the corolla-tube ; 
anthers basifixed, linear or subulate; filaments slender. Ovary 
included in the calyx-tube; style filiform; stigma subclavate. Fruit 
as in Loranthus, etc.—Distris. Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 
Bract and bracteoles of the flower absent; inflorescence up 
to 15 em. long; corolla-tube very narrow, laciniate ..» Ll. L. Beccariz. 
Bract none, bracteoles 4 up to 2 cm. long; inflorescence up 
to about 6 cm. long; corolla-tube funnel-shaped, split on 
one side .. ae ae oc .. 2 DL. Kingit. 
1. LeprostecERES Beccarit, Gamble. A glabrous parasitic 
shrub, the branches. often very long, otherwise about 60—90 cm. 
high; branchlets stout, terete, greyish-brown, the younger quadran- 
cular (at least when dry); nodes swollen. Leaves thinly coriaceous, 
opposite or sub-opposite; from ovate-lanceolate or ovate-oblong to 
suborbicular, very variable even on the same plant, subacute or 
obtuse at apex, cuneate or rounded at base; both surfaces dull, 
bluish-green when dry; 6—12 cm. long, 3—7 cm. broad; midrib 
fairly stout, scarcely visible on the upper surface; main nerves 
about 6 pairs, oblique, indistinct; secondary nerves occasional, 
obscure as is the reticulation; petiole moderately stout, 2—3 cm. 
long. Inflorescence lateral, from nodes on the old wood, of 20—30- 
flowered densely involucrate sessile capitula, subglobose when young, 
afterwards strobiliform and much elongate (up to 15 cm.); invo- 
lucral bracts large, numerous, imbricate, pale red, oblong to semi- 
