390 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
adnate to the perianth lobes, pores very minute. Ovary ovoid, 
smooth, truncate; stigma very small, rounded. Berry globular, 
glassy white, 25 mm. in diam. 
SincarorE: King’s Collector 1187!; Tauglin, etc., Radley 6018! , 
8912!; Murton 151!. 
8. Norotruixos, Oliver. 
Parasitic hoary or tomentose shrubs, growing on the branches 
of trees or on other Loranthaceae; branches dichotomous. Leaves 
opposite, flat, more or less coriaceous, ribbed. Flowers minute, 
monoecious, in terminal spikes or sessile and uniseriate in a row of 
3—7 on the margins of a flattened receptacle supported by a pair of 
small bracts, the said receptacles pedunculate, single or in threes or 
more in a cyme in the forks of the branchlets; sometimes the ¢ 
flowers in separate heads near the ends of the branchlets, the 9 
flowers in separate heads lower down, sometimes ¢ and 9 mixed in 
the same row. Perianth-tube in ¢@ short and solid, in ? adnate 
to the ovary; lobes 4 rarely 3 or 5, small, triangular, valvate. 
Stamens in 3 flowers attached to the bases of the perianth lobes 
around the sinuate margins of a flattened disk; filaments short or 
none; anthers erect, broad, dehiscing introrsely by circular pores. 
Ovary in 2 flowers infericr, crowned by a fleshy disk; stigma sub- 
sessile; ovule solitary, at first not apparent. Fruita 1-seeded berry, 
the pericarp viscid within. Seed oblong, on a basal cup-shaped 
placenta; testa very thin; embryo pendulous in a fleshy albumen, 
the radicle thickened, the cotyledons short, linear. Distris: Ceylon, 
Malaya and Australia; species about 5. 
Branchlets, leaves and iaoueeeen Ze coe ererl with golden 
mossy tomentum .. -- Ll. N. subaureus. 
Branchlets, leaves and indiveteones covered. aa greyish- 
tawny stellate tomentum ae ae .. 2. N. Malayanus. 
1. NororHixos supauRrgeus, Oliv. in Journ. Linn. Soc. VII. 
103 (1864). A parasitic shrub, the young parts, inflorescence and 
under surface of the leaves densely covered with a golden mossy 
floccose tomentum; branchlets terete, yellow, striate when dry, the 
nodes swollen. Leaves ovate or elliptic-ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 
obtuse or acute at apex, narrowed at base; upper surface shining, 
lower densely stellately floccose-tomentose; variable in size, 2—6cm. 
long, 1—3°5 cm. broad; 3-ribbed from the base, the nerves and 
reticulation not visible; petiole O—3 mm. long. Heads usually 5- or 
