Zoranthus. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 215 



Style as long as the stamina. Stigma capitate. Berry sub-globose, 

 one seeded." — W. Jack's Mss. 



13. L. coccineus, W. J. 



" Flowers spicate, tetrandrous, spikes axillary, erect ; leaves sub- 

 ovate, smooth — Malay. Miscell. i. 8. 



Found at Singapore, 



Blanches long, vimineous. Leaves alternate, petiolate, oblong- 

 ovate, sub- cordate at the base, attenuated towards the apex, which 

 is obtuse, entire, smooth. Petiols short. Spikes axillary, solitary 

 or in pairs, erect, longer than the leaves ; flowers sessi'e, clos^j 

 pressed to the rachis before expansion. A single small ovate ler- 

 ruginous bracte is situated at the base of each flower. Calyr supe- 

 rior, nearly entire, scarcely toothed. Corolla coccineous, i'our-pe- 

 talled, erect, tubular ; limb spreading ; petals nearly linear, broader 

 at the base. Stamina four, red, erect, inserted into the midd.e of 

 the petals and equalling them in length ; anthers oblong, adnate, 

 red. Style red, erect, scarcely longer than the stamina. Stigma 

 obtusely capitate. Berry ovate ; elongated above, one-seeded. 

 Seed contained in a hard shell, four-sided, its apex immersed in 

 gluten into which the radicle shoots. Embryo inverse, the radicle 

 produced beyond the albumen. — This species is nearly allied to 

 L. pentapetalus of Roxburgh agreeing with it in habit and inflo- 

 rescence." — Jack, Iqc. cit. 



14. L. odoratus, Wall. 



Smooth. Leaves sub-opposite, ovate.lanceolate, fleshy. Spikes 

 axillary, sub-fascic'ed, with foveolate fleshy rachis and jointed, sessi.e, 

 sub-immersed, spreading, six-petalled, hexandrous flowers. 



This peculiarly elegant species I found on the mountains of 

 Chandagiii and Sheopore, in flower in February and March. 



Branches round, covered with pale dotted bark ; younger ones 

 brownish, smooth, as ate all the other parts. — heaves seldom en- 

 tiiely opposite, commonly sub-alternate, ovate-lanceolate, fleshy, 



