1887.] G. King — On the Species of Loranthus indigenous to Peralc. 91 



4. L. coccineiis, Jack in Mai. Misc. I, 8 ; Hook. Bot. Misc. i, 278 ; 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. V, 206 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. Ed. Carey and Wall, ii, 

 215 ; DC. Prod. IV, 296 ; Korth, Verhand. Loranth. 68 ; Griff. Notul. IV, 

 620, and Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 626. L. racemiferus^ Wall. Cat. 539 ; Phon- 

 nicanthemum coccineum and Bennetianum, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. 1. 

 825, 826 ; Dendrophthoe coccinea, G. Don. Syst. iii, 419. 



At low elevations : not common in the province : is found also in 

 Pegu, Tavoy, Malacca, Singapore, and Penang, and extends to India 

 (Cachar) and to some of the islands of the Malayan Archipelago. 



Section III. Heteranthus. 



5. L. heteranthus, Wall. Cat. 537; Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. V, 208 ; 

 DC. Prod. V. 306 ; L. eleutheropetalus, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 

 1871, ii, 64, and For. Flora Barmah, ii, 321 ; Dendrophthoe macrocahjx, 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. Pt. 1, 821. 



Found in this province only in Laroot. This species extends as 

 far northwards as Chittagong, where it was once collected by Mr. 

 Lister, Wallich and Brandis found it in Burmah. Southward it ex- 

 tends to Java and Borneo. 



6. L. crassipetalus, nov. spec. Glabroas in all its parts, except tho 

 bracteoles and calyx- tube which are puberulous ; branchlets thick, 

 striate, polished, the bark dark coloured j leaves coriaceous, rigid, petio- 

 late, scattered, broadly ovate-oblong, rarely ovate-elliptic ; apex obtuse ; 

 base attenuate ; shining on the upper, dull on the lower, surface ; nerves 

 invisible when fresh, obscure when dry, midrib slightly prominent : 

 length of blade 1*5 to 2 in. (in the ovate-elliptic leaves as much as 2*5 in.) ; 

 breadth about 1 inch, rarely 1*5 in. ; petiole '25 in. long, stout ; racemes 

 longer than the leaves, stout, rigid, erect, axillary, sparsely many-flowered ; 

 pedicel thick, '15 in. long, bearing at its apex a single broad, cochleate, 

 bract, bracteole ; calyx-tube cylindric, the limb wide-spreading, trun- 

 cate, cup-shaped ; corolla straight, narrowly conical, petals, 5, thick, 

 distinct to their bases, smooth and yellowish externally, ridged and of a 

 bright red internally, '75 in. long; anthers linear, half as long as the 

 petals, basifixed : style filiform, stigma minute. 



Perak, on Gunong Idjou. Scortechini, Nos. 363 and 521. 



7. L. productus, nov. spec. Quite glabrous ; branches long, straight, 

 strongly 4-angled, slightly flattened especially at the nodes, the bark 

 polished and dark in colour; leaves coriaceous, petiolate, opposite, 

 elliptic-lanceolate or ovate- oblong, gradually narrowed to the sub-acute 

 or obtuse apex, narrowed rather suddenly to the petiole at the base ; 

 nerves obscure even when dry, midrib slightly prominent ; length of 

 blade 3*5 in. to 5 in. ; breadth 1*5 in. to nearly 2 in. ; petiole about "5 in. 



