210 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. ZoranthuS. 



corol, length of its segments. Anthers ovale. — Germ infeiior, one- 

 celled, and containing one ovule attached to the top of the cell. Stale 

 longer than the corol. Stigma large. — Bern) inferior, long-oval, 

 smooth, yellow, size of a currant, one-celled. Pulp pale yellow, 

 very clammy — Seeds solitaiy, ovate. JiUeguments two 5 exterior 

 marked with six longitudinal fibres ; inner membranaceous. — I'eri* 

 sperm conform to the seed, six-grooved, green. — Embryo cyliridric, 

 inverse. Cotyledons short, semi-cylindric. Radicle c^liudric, witty 

 a turbinate apex rising above the perisperm, inverse. 



Obs. by N. W. 

 I have had numerous specimens from Szlhet where the plant 13 

 called Am-pwraroha (Mango-parasite, Am signifying the mango 

 tree and pur ar oh a parasitical.) They differ somewhat from the de- 

 scription, still as they agree in most paits, I am unwilling to add to 

 the difficulties of this genus by attempting to constitute them into a 

 new species. — Stem and branches covered with smooth greyish, 

 white bark. — Leaves from ovate-lanceolate to ovate, finely acumi- 

 nate, very smooth, as are all the other parts, from four to five inches 

 long, coriaceous, remarkably shining above, venous when dry, espe- 

 cially near the niargins where (as is the case in the whole family) 

 the nerves unite in reticulate arches ; they are less liable to fall off 

 on being dried than those of most of the other species 1 — Racemes 

 frequently many in each axil. — Bractes two, opposite, ovate, shorter 

 than the ovary; one of them is acute, its margins sub-decurrent on 

 the pedicel ; the other obtuse, two-lobed. There are no bractes 

 under the pedicels. — Calyx obscurely five-lobed. — Corol about an 

 inch long, before expansion bottle-shaped, its lower half being large, 

 somewhat ventricose ; the upper half narrow, six-sided, with a round- 

 ed apex, scabrous from a number of small dots. All the rest as ity 

 Roxburgh's plant. > 



7- L. clavatus, R. 



Leaves opposite, broad-lanceolate. Flowers axillary, few toge- 

 ther, tetrandrous; corols irregular, four-cleft 5 berries clavate. 



