21^ „ Pentandrta. monogynia: Loranthisl 



Leaves tough and coriaceous, sinning and somewhat vascular above 

 pale underneath with a keeled rib, of a brownish colour with pur- 

 plish unequally repand margins. Tetiol slender, furrowed, half an 

 inch long. liaccmes from six to eight inches long, often two or three 

 hi each axilla, cylindric, as thick as a small finger, of a scarlet colour 

 in all their parts, shoit-peduncled, somewhat fleshy, at first erect, 

 spreading more and more as the flowers expand, sometimes with a 

 small floral leaflet at the base. Rachis thick, fleshy, slightly angular, 

 scabrous, furrowed. Before expansion the Jiowers are cylindric, 

 erect on their short thick pedicels, or ascending so as to be parallel 

 and close to the rachis, sub-verticillate and approximate; as they 

 open they become paired or scattered, spreading, somewhat remote ; 

 they are scentless, about five lines long. — Filaments subulate, 

 spungy 1 ; their lower half attached to the petal, which they scarcely 

 equal in length. 



Additional Species by N. TV. 



9. L. returns, W. J. 



" Leaves opposite, obovate-oblong, refuse or emarginate ; racemes 

 sub-solitary, limb of the corolla shorter than the clavate tube- 

 Found at Singapore. 



Parasitic on trees, and fastening itself by long runners. Bark 

 brown. — Leaves opposite, short-petioled, obcuneate, or oblong- 

 obovate, retuse or emarginate, entire, smooth, coriaceous ,• nerves in- 

 distinct ; about three inches long. Racemes below the leaves from 

 the former axils, short. — Flowers pedicelled with one or two bractes 

 at the base. — Calyx consisting of an entire margin. Tube of the co- 

 rolla clavate, gibbous and angled above, rosy, suddenly contracted 

 at the limb, which is five- or six-parted, yellowish green ; segments 

 nairow-lanceolale, reflexed, shorter than the tube. Stamina six, 



