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terminated by a cyme of 3 or 4 flowers, either smgly or by pairs 
rom the axils of the leaves or from above the scars of the fallen 
ones; bracts somewhat larger, but otherwise conform with the 
bractlets, ovate, acute, united at the base with the latter; fiower- 
uds 6-cornered ; calyx glabrous, the tube elliptically oblong, the 
limb entire and truncate; corolla 6-cleft, glabrous, about an inch 
late-tubular, the lobes linear, reflexed, acute, nearly as long as the 
tube; stamens 6; anthers linear; style and filaments all glabrous. 
Has.—Martaban hills, at 3,000 ft. elevation. 
6. L. hypoglaucus, Kz.—An evergreen parasitical small 
branched shrub, all parts quite glabrous; leaves opposite or nearly 
so, lanceolate to elliptically lanceolate, tapering in a short petiole, 
more or less acuminate, entire, 24-3 in. long, coriaceous, with the 
lateral nerves hardly visible, glabrous, glaucous beneath ; flowers 
1}-1$ in. long, glabrous, bright crimson, on 2 lin. long pedicels, 
by pairs or threes on short glabrous peduncles which are crowded b 
2 or more in the axils of the leaves or above the scars of the fallen 
ones ; bract and the 2 bractlets small, triangular-ovate and united at 
the base ; calyx glabrous, cylindrical, the limb entire, truncate ; 
corolla slabrous, deeply 6-cleft, the tube curved and slightly widen- 
ed, the lobes linear, reflexed ; stamens 6; anthers linear; filaments 
and the very slender filiform style glabrous. 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the drier hi i 
E000 to 6.000 f sale ae . oe a forests of the Martaban hills, at 
7. L. formosus, Bl.—An evergreen rather large parasitical 
shrub, all parts glabrous, the branches terete or obscurely 4-corner- 
3 leaves opposite or nearly so, ovate to elliptically oblong, acute 
or obtuse at the base, on a short very thick petiole, acuminate or 
Bossy on both sides ; flowers nearly 2-3 in. long, crimson, pedi : 
- e very short small minutely puberulous cymes often reduced 
. : : 
- lobes linear, reflexed and greenish ; stamens 6 ; anthers linear. 
Has.—Burma, probably Tenasserim. 
: sometimes obsolete ; bractlets absent. 
OO Each flower with a single small bract only, or the bract — - 
