214 £entandkxa monogynia? Ldranthus* 



Parasitic on trees. All the young parts covered with stellate 

 pubescence which is easily rubbed off. Leaves alternate, petiolate, 

 broad-ovate, attenuated upwards, acute, entire, smooth when adult, 

 nerves strong and distinct ; nine inches long. Petioles short. Ra- 

 cemes fiotn the stem below the leaf-bearing branchlets, generally 

 several together, sometimes solitary. Flowers nearly sessile. A 

 small bract at the base of the ovary. Peduncles, ovaries and calyces 

 hoary with short dense wool. Calyx superior, distinctly five-toothed. 

 Corolla abo\e two inches long, slightly tomentose without, pale 

 rosy with a greenish limb ; tube gibbous below, contracted a little 

 above the base, then widening upwards till it suffers a second con- 

 traction before expanding into the limb, which is about a fourth the 

 length of the tube, five-parted, with letiexed segments. Stamina 

 five, erect. Style longer than the stamina. Stigma clavate. Merry 

 crowned with the calyx, hoary, and mealy, ovate, one-seeded. 



Obs This beautiful species comes nearest to L. farinosa, Lam. 

 but differs in the pubescence of the young leaves and branches and 

 the much greater length of the tube of the corolla." — W. Jack's Mss. 



19,. L. f.atulus, W. .7. 



" leaves opposite, eliip*ic-ovate, smooth; jlowers on long pedicels,' 

 paniculate-racemose, axillary or below the leaves; tube of the corol 

 acutely six-angled, equal in length to the segments of the limb. 



Found in the interior of Bencoolen. 



Branches smooth. — Leaves opposite, petio^ed, elliptic-ovate, ra- 

 ther obtuse, sometimes sub-acute, entire, smooth, coriaceous ; about 

 three inches long. — Flowers paniculate-racemose on long divaricate 

 pedicels, axillary or be'ow the leaves. The racemes are shorter than 

 the leaves from which they spring. Bractes two or three, embrac- 

 ing the ovary like a calycle. Calyx an entire margin. Corolla green, 

 tipped with light red and with a purplish tinge towards ihe base, 

 tube clavate, dilated upwards, acutely six-angled ; limb six-parted, 

 segments as long as the tube, narrow, revo'ute. Stamina six, erect. 



