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tapering on the 3 to 5 lin. long gion petiole, 3 to 5 in. long, 
retuse with a minute mucro, entire or somewhat waved, charta- 
style glabrous. 
Has.—Ava, Kakhyen hills.—Fl. May. 
LORANTHACEA, 
Flowers usually hermaphrodite, regular. Calyx-tube adnate to 
the ovary, the limb with as many lobes or teeth as petals, or form- 
ing an entire border, or none. Petals or perianth-segments (when 
the calyx is inconspicuous) 4-6 or rarely more, usually 5 or 6, free 
or united in a lobe “! corolla, inserted round an epigynous disk, val- 
vate, rarely wantin Stamens as many as petals, opposite to, and 
with a single edad sateen. Albumen “fechy ; cotyledons 2- 4, 
semiterete, fleshy. Embryo fungiform, straight, with a superior: 
radicle.—Parasitical shrubs, usually much branched, very rarely 
terrestrial shrubs or trees, ‘with opposite or rarely alternate a 
leaves, sometimes the leaves reduced to mere scales, or wanting. 
Bracts usually present, rarely wanting ; bractlets 2, close under the 
ower, parioae or united in a cup, sometimes wanting. 
r of no economical value, containing about 23 Burmese 
Species, "All the species are more or less injurious to tree-growth on 
nay of their parasitism. The bark is usually astringent. Bird- 
is made from the berries of mistletoe and several Loranthi. 
a well ps the lobes more or less united, rarely free ; 
albumen perf . Loranthus, 
Floral parts sedosk: = an apparently ‘simple’ perianth ; albumen 
solid ; Sere ad inwards in several pores ; flowers clus- 
te $0) =» Vine, 
Anthers 0 Senin in bi Senigthodigsl slits ; flowers spiked . . Ginalloa. 
LORANTHUS, L. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx-limb inconspicuous, truncate or 
toothed. Petals 4-8, free or more or less united in a tubular corolla, 
tarely free, spemtiog or reflexed at the apex. Stamens inser 
= the base o the petals; filaments distinct ; anthers adnate or 
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