382 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
orbicular, obtuse, the inner 5—8 cm. long, the outer gradually 
shorter; receptacle obconic, flattened, bearing the closely packed 
sessile flowers; bracts and bracteoles to the flowers none. Calyzx- 
tube angular, 4—5 mm. long, truncate, the limb a mere rim. 
Corolla-tube deep claret-colour, very slender, 7—10 cm. long, split- 
ting into 6 very narrow linear yellow segments which are united 
for about 1 cm. at base and again slightly just below the twisted 
reflexed linear obtuse lobes, the lobes about 2 cm. long. Stamens 6; 
anthers linear, acuminate, very narrow, 12 mm. long, the cells 
lateral; filaments slender, 10 mm. long. Ovary cylindric, rounded 
at top; style filiform; stigma small, rounded. Fruit subangular, 
globose, 8 mm. in diam. Loranthus Beccarii, King in Journ. As. 
Soc. Beng., LVI. ii. 98 (1887). Stegastrum Beccarit, van. Tiegh. in 
Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. XLII. 447. Elytranthe Beccarii, Engl. in Engl. 
& Prantl Nachtr. (1897) 126. 
Perak: at Gunong Ijuk, Scortechini 1208!; on the branches 
of trees at elevations up to 600 m. alt., King’s Collector 5793! , 
7956!; at Bujong Malacca, Ridley 9577!.—Distris. Borneo (Beccari 
1171; Haviland 3642 !). 
2. Luprostegeres Kine, Gamble. A parasitic shrub; 
branchlets stout, terete, with smooth pale brown bark, the younger 
ones slightly lenticellate; nodes swollen. Leaves coriaceous, oppo- 
site; ovate-lanceolate, obtusely acuminate at apex, rounded and 
often unequal at base; both surfaces olive-green when dry, rather 
dull, smooth; 7—15 cm. long, i—8 cm. broad; midrib stout, promi- 
nent; main nerves apparently 6—7 pairs, usually quite invisible on 
either surface as is the reticulation; petiole very stout, 1—2 cm. 
long. Inflorescence axillary, from new wood, of 4—6-flowered densely 
involucrate sessile capitula, up to about 6 cm. long, prominently 4- 
angled when young and strobiliform, afterwards elongate; involucral 
bracts large, red, keeled, the outer series of 6—7 decussate pairs, the 
uppermost of which are linear-oblong, obtuse, 3—4 cm. long, the lower 
gradually smaller and more acute, the inner series of a single lanceolate 
pair 2—2-5cm. long; receptacle flattened, bearing the sessile flowers 
each of which has 4 linear-lanceolate acute keeled bracteoles about 
2cm.long. Calyx-tube angular, 2—3 mm. long, the limb unequally 
6-toothed. Oorolla-tube narrowly infundibuliform, 3—4 cm. long, 
curved below the middle, split nearly }-way down on one side and 
cleft at the apex into 5—6 lanceolate acuminate teeth which are at 
first reflexed and twisted and then upright and 1—1°5 em. long 
