318 LORANTHACES. | Loranthus. 
8. L. pulverulentus, Wall.; Brand. For. Fl.,396.—An evergreen 
branched parasitical shrub, the younger shoots covered with a white 
or yellowish densely villous tomentum which is more or less scurfy ; 
leaves opposite and nearly alternate, on a strong 3-1 in. long petiole, 
ovate-oblong to broadly ovate and oval, blunt or somewhat acute, 
entire, 4-6 in. long, firmly coriaceous, with the nerves visible in a 
dried state, while young more or less covered with a very fugaceous 
floccose tomentum, soon quite glabrous; flowers conspicuous, 14 to ~ 
1# in. long, green, floccose-tomentose, on 8 to 4 lin. long pedicels, 
forming short white-mealy tomentose racemes, arising singly or by 
pairs from the axils of the leaves or from above the scars of the 
fallen ones; bract small, oval, thick and tomentose; calyx-tube 
obovate-oblong, covered with a white, scurfy, dense tomentum, the 
limb ring-like and imperceptible; corolla 4-cleft, white, floccose- 
tomentose outside, the tube linear-cylindrical, very long and some- 
what curved, the lobes linear, reflexed, one-sided, 2 of them 
separated more deeply ; stamens 4; anthers linear; berries large, 
club-shaped, covered with a white-mealy tomentum. 
Has.—Not uncommon in the Prome district from the plains up to the top 
of the Kambala; also Ava.—Fl. Sept.-Feb.—1. 
e fuaments purple ; berries pear-shaped or elongate and pear-club- 
shaped, 2-4 lin. long, from slightly velvety or ‘almost glabrous to 
P : young shoots covered with a rusty- 
Var. 1, scurrula roper 
coloured tomentum ; adult leaves glabrous, oval to broadly oval — 
