218 pentandria MONOGYNIA. Loranthus* 



from three to four inches long, by two and half or three broad, some- 

 times even larger, mostly alternate, reticulate and veined when dry, 

 on short petiols. Racemes numerous, from two to three inches long ; 

 rachis slender ; pedicels about three lines long terminated by a small 

 ova!, obtuse, concave and gibbous, persistent hracie, which embraces 

 the ovary. — Flowers small, about four lines long, cylindric, at first 

 erect on the adscending pedicels, afterward spreading; petals four, 

 Jinear.cuneate.— Stigma capitate.— Merries nearly globular, re flexed* 

 ~N. W. 



10. L. vestitus, Wall 



Leaves oblong-lanceolate, tapering, acute, convex, smooth and 

 lucid above 5 densely covered underneath with ferruginous tomentum, 

 as are also the fascicled tetrandrous tubulav jlowers. 



A native of .Nipai where I found it on the mountains of Charida- 

 giri and Sheopore. In flower most part of the year. 



A rtmaikably stout branchy and spreading parasite. Branches 

 round, biovvn, dotted ; the young shoots* as well as the leaves, petiols, 

 and the fioweis densely covered with very soft, rust-coloured, stellate 

 and mealy tomentum. — Leaves opposite, approximate, oblong-lanceo- 

 late, sometimes ovate, tapering, acute, three inches long, convex, very 

 shining and smooth above ; concave, densely tomentose, obscurely 

 nerved underneath • margins recurved. — Petiols short, round. — Fasci- 

 cles numerous, short-peduncled, in the axils of the fallen leaves, few- 

 flowered, all their parts densely tomentose. Flowers sessile, supported 

 by small ovate, acute bractlets. Calyx obscurely four-toothed. Corolla 

 cylindric, with a sub»globu!ar apex before expansion, afterward its 

 limb bursts into four linear reflexed segments, half the length oi the 

 tube, which measures about eight lines. On the outside it is rust- or 

 dnnamon-colored, within purple and smooth.— Stamina four.— 

 Herry oblong, tomentose. 



Obs, This conies very near Roxburgh's L. ferrugineus, it differs 

 chiefly in the form and situation of its leaves which are approximate, 



