220 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Loranthus. 



minate, smooth. "Racemes few-flowered. Corols quadrangular, four- 

 petalled. Stamina four. 



A native of the forests in the valley and on several of the moun- 

 tains of Nipal, where I found it in blossom in the hot weather.; 



Branches sub-fasciculate, covered with grey, smoothish bark ; 

 young shoots slightly villous, dotted. — Leaves opposite, or alternate, 

 lanceolate, attenua'to-acute, from one to two inches long, ' smooth, 

 coriaceous, veined. Petials short. — Racemes sub-umbellate, axillary, 

 two or three, shorter than the leaves, with a few red, villous, small, 

 sub-sessile flowers, which are deep red within and pale pink on the 

 outside. Calyx extremely narrow, entire. Corolla four-petalled, six 

 lines long ; petals linear, spreading ; their lower half converging into a 

 quadrangular, slightly ventricose tube; furrowed within for the recep- 

 tion of the lower half of the four red filaments, which are attached to 

 their base. — Ovary ferruginous, villous, supported by an oval bract* 

 let ; stigma purplish, sub-quadrangular. — N. W. 



22. L. bracteatus, Heyne. 



Covered with grey stellate tomentum. Leaves small, obovate, ob- 

 tuse, tapering downwards, alternate, rather long-petioled. Umbels ax- 

 illary. Calyx five-toothed, supported by a large tongue-shaped 

 bracte. Corolla, clavate, lengthened. Stamina five. 



In the herbarium of Dr. Heyne specimens of this most distinct 

 species are preserved under the above name. 



The whole plant is densely covered with stellate, ash-grey tomen- 

 tum. Branches round, dotted, becoming smoother by age. Leaves 

 alternate, scarcely an inch long, generally much smaller, from obov.ate 

 to sub-rotund, on slender, longish petiols.— Umbella five-flowered, 

 all the parts densely villous. Pedicels one-third of an inch long, ter- 

 minated by an oblong, tongue-shaped, obtuse bracte, measuring half 

 an inch in length. Calyx distinctly five-toothed. Corolla nearly an 

 inch and a half long, slender, cyl'mdnc at the lower part, widening 

 upwards ; throat contracted ; lacinice five, linear, unilateral, much 

 shorter than the tube; stamina live. — N. W. 



