90 G. King — On the Species of Lorantlius indigenous to Perah. [No. 1, 



into my hands, I propose to draw up, as time permits, lists of species al- 

 ready described, together with descriptions of any which appear to be new. 

 And I now begin the series by an enumeration of the species of Loran- 

 thus indigenous to the province. 



The list which follows contains in all twenty-five species, of which 

 eleven are described for the first time. At the end of the list I have 

 appended descriptions of two new Sumatran species collected by Mr. 

 H. 0. Forbes. The genus being rather large and polymorphic, it has been 

 divided into sections. In the following enumeration, I follow the 

 sectional divisions adopted, in their Genera Plantarum, by Sir J. D. 

 Hooker and and the late Mr. Bentham. 



Section I. Euloranthus. 



1. L. Lohhii, Hook. fil. Flora Brit. India, V, 204. 



The commonest species in the province ; growing on trees of various 

 species, at elevations of from 500 to 4000 feet ; found also in Penang and 

 apparently also in Borneo. This species approaches very closely the 

 Sumatran species L. axanthus, Korth. 



Section II. Ph(ENicanthemum. 



2. L. pulcher, DC. Prod. IV, 295j Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. V, 

 205 ; L. speciosus, "Wall. Cat. 518 ; L. coccineus, Hook. Bot. Misc. t. 

 58 ; Bendrophthoe pulcher, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. 1, 821. 



Common ; but scarcely ascending so high as the last. This varies 

 greatly as to the breadth of its leaves which in some plants is as much 

 as 3 inches, while in others it is barely 1 inch. Found also in Penang, 

 and represented in Tenasserim by the closely allied species L. Parishii, 

 Hook, fil., and in Java by L. Lijndenianus, Zoll. 



3. L. pentapetalus, Roxb. Fl. Ind. I, 553, Ed. Carey and Wallich, 

 II, 290. ; Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. V. 206 ; DO. Prod. TV, 295 ; Wall. 

 PI. As. Bar. iii, t. 225, and Cat. 503 ; Kurz For. Flora Burmah, ii, 322 ; 

 Griff. Notulae, IV, 617, and Ic. PL Asiat. t. 624, 625 ; Korth. Verhand, 

 Loranth. 66 ; Blume Fl. Javae Loranth. 39, t. 14 and 23 A. ; Phoen. 

 pentapetalum, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. I, p. 823 : Bendrophthoe penta- 

 petala, G. Don. Syst. iii, 419. 



This is not very common in the province. It is a widely distribut- 

 ed species, being found in India from Nepal, along the outer and lower 

 Himalaya, to Sikkim ; thence through Assam, the Khasia Hills, Chitta- 

 gong, to Burmah : it extends also to the Andamans, Penang, Malacca, 

 Banka, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, and probably to other islands of the 

 Malayan Archipelago. Sir J. D. Hooker reduces to this speciea L 

 polycarpus, Wall. Cat. 540, and L. enjthrostachys, Wall. MSS. 



