316 LORANTHACE®. [ Loranthus. 
a short thick petiole, oblong to ovate or oblong-lanceolate, more or 
less acuminate, entire, very coriaceous and almost veinless (in a 
dried state the nerves become visible), 2-4 in. long, smooth ; flowers 
small, greenish orange with yellowish tips, sessile, forming a short 
glabrous spike in the axils of the leaves; bract free, about half 
as long as the ovate calyx-tube, cordate-ovate, acuminate ; bractlets 
2, somewhat shorter and united into an apparently single, broadly 
oblong, 2-toothed bractlet; calyx-tube oblong, the limb obsolete 
and almost entire; corolla tubular, 6-sided, upwards inflated, 6- 
_ lobed, the lobes linear-oblong, acute, reflexed ; stamens 6; anthers 
oblong; berries globular-oval, the size of a pea, smooth, yellowish 
green, crowned by the ring-shaped calyx-limb. 
Hap.—Frequent all over Pegu, especially in the lower mixed and savannah 
forests ; not unfrequent in Tenasserim and Chittagong.—Fr. Jan.—l. 
3. L. subglobosus, DC.—Very much like the former, but the 
leaves narrower and more coriaceous, the nerves in a dried state 
indistinct or less visible; spikes, etc., as in former, but the flowers 
appear larger (about 3 in. long), the tube inflated as in L. ampul- 
daceus, of which it is probably a sessile-flowered variety. 
Haz.—Ava.—Fl. Oct. 
Fr. ee os aphes frequent in Martaban and Pissaarini <i Feb.-Aug. ; 
5. L. Bran isianus, Kz—An evergreen parasitical shrub of 
the habit of the following species, all parts glabrous; leaves oppo- 
‘site or nearly so, lanceolate to elliptically lanceolate, tapering at the 
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