21ff PENTANDKIA MONOGYNIA. Loranthui. 



acute at both extremities, with undulate, even margins, veinless, of a 

 pallid green colour, becoming yellowish, from four to six inches long, 

 on short, slender, channelled petiols. Spikes axillary, sub-opposite; 

 sometimes fascicled or sub-verticilied, almost sessile, shorter than 

 the leaves, many-flowered. Rachis thick and fleshy, slightly 



angular, marked with deep sharp-margined small excavations, in 

 which the ovaria are half immersed and as it were jointed. Flowers 

 small, nearly white, scattered, approximate, spreading, very sweet- 

 Bcented. Calyx exceedingly narrow, entire. Corolla about three 

 lines Jong, six-petalled, at first clavate, afterwards spreading ; petals 

 cuneate, apex slightly concave, base firmly attached to the inside 

 of the calyx. Stamina six, rather shorter than the peta's. Ovary 

 small, round, yellowish, supported by no other bracte than the acute 

 margin of the foveola of the rachis, which is rather broader under- 

 neath. Stigma scabrous, nodding. 



Obs. Tins species comes near to L. pentapetalus, Roxb. but 

 differs abundantly in its jointed, sessile, always spreading, six-petal": 

 led,, hexaudrous flowers and foveolate rachis. — N. W. 



15 L. lonicer oleics, Linn. 



Smooth. Leaves from ovate to lanceolate, very attenuate, 

 obtuse, base rounded. — Peduncles opposite, longer than the petiols, 

 bearing a head of a few sessile hexandrous flowers, each of which is 

 supported by four broad-ovate, acute, concave biactes — Corols 

 slender, tubular, very long, limb irregularly cleft into five cuneate 

 spreading segments. 



L. coriaceus, Lam. encycl. hot. iii. 597- 



Specimens of this are preserved in Dv. Heyne's herbarium. They 

 agree pretty well with La mark's description, but differ from Ltti- 

 Canni, Sort. Mai. vii. p 55. t. 29, which Linneus quotes in flora 

 zeyl. p. 34, in having smooth flowers with five stamens, whereas 

 Rheed's plant has bearded polyandrous flowers. — Pluckenet's peri- 

 clymemun sui rectum persica foliis, Almag. 287, t. 242, fig. 5, usually 

 cited for Lianeus's plant, seems to be a Morinda. — L. umbel I at us, 



