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Stamens 5—6; anthers subulate, acuminate, 5 mm. long, with a 
slight process at their bases; filaments as long as the anthers. 
Ovary cylindric ; style filiform, as long as the stamens; stigma small, 
subcapitate. Fruit ovoid, elongate, crowned by the remains of the 
calyx-tube. Loranthus Kingii, Scortechini ex King in Journ As. Soc. 
Beng. LVI. ii. 99 (1887). 
PERAK: at Gunong Ijuk, Scortechini 1251!; camp on Ulu 
Batang Padang, 1500 m. alt., Wray 1526!. Panane: at Kwala 
Tenoh, Sunjie Tahan river, Ridley’s Collector 2249!. Mawtacca: 
Maingay K.D. 695!; at Selandan, Ridley 10771!; at Bukit Sedanan, 
Goodenough 1451! . . 
Goodenough says the flower is striped white and red, Ridley’s Collector 
says, ‘ bright red with yellow-orange stripes,’ Ridley and Wray say, ‘ red,’ but 
the material seems to me to belong all to the same species though Sir G. King 
has named some of the sheets L. Forbesiz. Stapf in Trans. Linn. Soc. Ser. 2. IV. 
222 under his Loranthus sabaensis a species from over 3000 m. alt. on Mount 
Kinabalu in Borneo, doubts if Maingay’s 695 really is Scortechini’s plant. 
From the (only meagre) specimens of the type that I have examined I think it 
must be, but it is quite clear that further investigation on the spot is needful 
to clear up the point. 
5. Grinaxcwoa, Korth. 
Parasitic shrubs, growing on trees; branches dichotomous or 
whorled, jointed at the nodes, bearing, just above each node, a 
sheath-like thickening ending in a free ring. Leaves opposite, 
coriaceous. Flowers moneecious, in triadsin terminal and axillary 
jointed spikes; bracts connate, cup-shaped, at the base of each joint 
of the spike, broadened in alternate spikes. Perianih-tube in 3 3- 
lobed, the lobes triangular-ovate, thick: in 9 oblong, also 3-lobed, 
the lobes smaller and thinner. Stamens 3, opposite the perianth- 
lobes; filaments very stout, short; anthers ovoid, 2-celled, the cells 
opening by introrse longitudinal or curved slits. Ovary conform 
to the perianth-tube which encloses it; style none; stigma capitate; 
ovules 1—2. Fruit a 1-seeded berry; pericarp leathery enclosing 
a viscous layer surrounding the seed; perianth lobes persistent. 
Seed ovoid; testa thin; albumen fleshy, bearing the embryo at its 
apex; cotyledons very small; radicle minute, superior.— DISTRIB. 
Malay Peninsula, Andaman Islands and Ceylon (according to van 
Tieghem 9 sp.). 
1. GtNALLOoA stamica, Craib in Kew Bull. 455 (1911). 
Var. Scortechinii, Gamble. Branchlets terete, rather stout, the 
sheath-like thickening about 8 mm. long. Leaves very coriaceous, 
