92 G. Kino- — On the Species of Lorantlius indijenous to Perak. [No. 1, 



long ; flowers crowded in small, sessile, axillary clusters ; bract ; 

 bracteoles cohering into a short, cylindric, obscurely 2 to 4-crenate tube 

 which, in the unfertilised flower, envelopes the whole of the calyx 

 except its limb ; calyx- tube shorter than the cylindric, truncate limb ; 

 petals 4, distinct, fleshy, linear, '35 in, long, re flexed from about the 

 middle ; anthers linear, basifixed, nearly as long as the filaments, curved 

 when mature ; st3''le shorter than the petals ; stigma small, truncate ; 

 fruit -3 in. in diameter, globular, smooth, crowned by the rather long 

 cylindric calyx-limb and enveloped at its base by the persistent brac- 

 teolar cup. 



Perak, at elevations of from 3000 to 3600 feet ; Scortechini, Nos. 

 391 and 581 ; Kunstler (King's collector) No. 3240. 



A remarkable species ; with long, slender, polished branches which 

 are almost black when dry. From the flower-bearing axils there often 

 arise short, leaf-and-flower-bearing branches ; and as the leaves on these 

 (in herbarium specimens) usually fall off, they assume the appearance 

 of long-peduncled cymes. This is clearly a Heteranthtcs ; but it does 

 not quite conform to the dafinition of that section given by Mr. Bentham 

 and Sir J. D. Hooker in their Gen. Plantar, (iii, 208), inasmuch as there 

 is no bract present, and there are bracteoles which form a cup almost 

 entirely enveloping the calyx in the flower, and persisting even in the 

 ripe fruit. 



I have named this species from the length of its branches. 



Section IV. Ciclanthus. 



8. L. scnrrula, Linn. var. obtecta, Kurz For. Fl. Burm. ii, 319; 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. V, 2U9 : L, obtectios, Wall. Cat. 534 : L. concavi- 

 folius, Griff. Notul. IV, G15. 



Very common at low elevations ; Scortechini, Nos. 3115, 4216. 



The typical form of this species occurs throughout the whole of 

 British India ; its other varieties, as defined in the Flora of British 

 India, viz., hengalensis, laevigata, and gracilijiora having each a more 

 circumscribed distribution. 



9. L. ferrugineus, Roxb. Fl. Ind. I, 551, ii, 188 ; DC. Prod. IV, 

 299 ; Wall. Cat. 500 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. V. 210 ; Jack in Mai. 

 Misc. i, 9, and in Hook. Bot. Misc. i, 279, t. 59 ; Bendrophthoe ferruginea^ 

 G. Don Gen. Syst. iii, 420 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. 1, 812. 



Not uncommon at low elevations ; Scotechini, Nos. 6306, 2099. 



Very common in Malacca, Singapore, and Penang: found also by 

 Kurz in lower Burmah. Distributed also in Sumatra and Java. A 

 specimen in the Calcutta Herbarium and named by him L. Oortianus 

 Korth, is the same as this : and, if Junghuhn's identification is correct, 



