; 
; 
Loranthus. | LORANTHACE. 319 
(and obovate ?), on a 3-3 in. long petiole; flowers usually solitary 
or by pairs on a short peduncle, like the berries, covered with a 
short rusty tomentum ; corolla often 1-14 in. long. 
Var. 2, obtectus (LZ. obtectus, Wall.) : young shoots covered 
with a dense rusty tomentum ; adult leaves glabrous, oblong to 
oblong-lanceolate, on a petiole $ to 14, rarely 2-4 lin. long ; flowers 
in short usually paired racemes, like the young berries, covered 
with a rusty-coloured short villous tomentum. 
Var. 3, buddleioides (L. buddileioides, Desr.): young shoots 
and under side of leaves whitish or pale-tomentose, the latter ovate 
to ovate-oblong, on a 3-4 lin. long petiole; flowers usually smaller 
and more slender, like the young berries, whitish or tawny-velvety, 
the racemes reduced to few-flowered peduncled or almost sessile 
fascicles, or sometimes developed, but rather short. 
Var. 4, graciliflorus (LZ. graciliflorus, Wall.) : young shoots 
tawny-tomentose ; adult leaves glabrous and usually narrowly de- 
current at the base, on a 2-3 lin. long petiole; flowers as in the 
preceding variety, tawny-velvety. 
_Han.—Frequent all over Burma from Chittagong and Ava down to Tenas- 
Serim and the Andamans ; on various trees as well in the mixed and savannah 
forests as in the cultivated lands. Var. 1: not found yet; var. 2: generally; 
on 3 oo so frequent, but generally; var. 4: on the Pegu Yomah.—Fl. Oct.- 
ay.—l. 
0. L, rhopalocarpus, Kz.—An evergreen, small, densely 
branched parasitical shrub about 1-2 ft. high, all parts, except the 
upper side of the leaves, covered with a minute tawny or rusty- 
coloured floccose-scurfy tomentum ; leaves small, opposite or alter- 
nate, from obovate- and oblong-cuneate to cuneate, tapering in a 
tawny-velvety and somewhat lepidote, on 1-1} lin. long pedicels, 
forming 2-5-flowered, tawny-velvety, almost sessile or shortly 
mentum on the outside ; stamens 4 ; anthers oblong ; berries (unripe) 
elongate and linear-club-shaped, about $ an in. long, thinly tawny- 
or rusty-velvety, at the base close above the. minute bract sur- 
