208 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. LoratlthllS. 



Found by Mr. W. Roxburgh growing on trees in the forests of 

 Pulo-Penang. 



Addition hy N. W. 



I have found this species growing abundantly on trees on the is- 

 lands of Penang and Singapore, blossoming in August — Decent ber. 

 It was found also at Sumatra by the late Mr. Jack, whose descrip- 

 tion I insert here from tb? Malayan Miscellanies, vol. i. p- 9- 



"A parasitic shrub which attaches itself firmly to the branches of 

 trees by means of long runners and numerous circular bands. The 

 branches are long and hanging, and when young densely covered with 

 reddish ferruginous wool. Leaves opposite, short petioled, coriace- 

 ous, elliptic, obtuse, entire, smooth and green above, ferruginous 

 and densely villous beneaih. Stipules none. Peduncles fascicled, 

 from one to four in each axil, from two to six-flowered. A small 

 scale-like bracte embraces the base of the ovary. Calyx (if any) an 

 entire margin crowning the ovarium. Corolla covered externally as 

 well as the peduncles and ovary with ferruginous tcmentum, gieen 

 and smooth within, tubular, divisible into four petals, which com- 

 monly adhere at their base but separate at the limb, which is gene- 

 rally more deeply cloven on one side. Stamina four, inserted into 

 the tube and nearly as long as the limb. Filaments flat, deep pur- 

 ple. Style as long as the corolla. Stigma sub-rotund. Berry 

 ovate, ferruginous, one-seeded." 



5. L. intohicratus, R. 



Leaves opposite, ovate-cordate, smooth. Umbellets axillary. /«. 

 •Eolucres four-leaved, four-flowered ; flowers regular, pentandrous. 



A stout parasitical shrub, found on trees in the forests on the east- 

 ern border of Bengal, where it blossoms great part of the year. 



Branches while young clothed with smooth, sliining, dark-brown 

 bark. — Leaves opposite, short-petioled, ovate and ovate-cordate, 

 sides often unequal, as in most of the plants of this genus, entire, 

 smooth on both sides j from three to four inches long. — Umbellet$ 



