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320 LORANTHACES. [ Loranthus. 
rounded by a ring-like margin, crowned with the obsolete calyx- 
argin, 
Has.—Frequent in the mixed forests of Pegu and Arracan; also in Upper 
Tenasserim.—Fl. Oct. ; Fr. Jan.-March.—l. 
bract single, 3 times longer than the ovary, elliptically oblong, 
tomentose ; calyx densely rusty-tomentose, the limb obsolete, 
truncate ; corolla outside covered with a rusty or ochre-yellow 
scurty tomentum, pale and shortly tomentose within, 5-parted (?) ; 
berries urceolate-ovoid, the size. of a sma pea, truncate, densely 
and shortly tawny- or rusty-tomentose, supported by the bract which 
is as long as the berry itself. 
Has.—Adjoining provinces of Siam.—Fl. Fr. H.S.—l. 
12. L, pentandrus, L.—An evergreen parasitical shrub, with 
thick, rather long, but not much branched stems, all parts glabrous ; 
eaves alternate, variable, from oblong to oblong-lanceolate an 
almost broadly obovate-oblong and retuse, acute or somewhat decur- 
rent at the base, on a strong petiole very short or up to nearly 4 an 
in. long, more or less blunt, bluntish apiculate, or rarely bluntish 
acuminate, entire and somewhat waved, 3-5 in. long, thick-coria- 
ceous, with only the principal nerves visible in a dried state, glab- 
rous ; flowers varying in length from 4-1] in., outside greenish ap 
thinly greyish seurfy-puberulous, yellow or dull-orange within, on 
4-1 lin. long pedicels or almost sessile, forming shorter or longer 
scurfy-puberulous racemes arising singly or by 2, rarely more, from 
the axils of the leaves or from above the scars of the fallen ones ; 
bract solitary, ovate-oblong, at length more or less spreading ; 
ealyx thinly scurfy-puberulous, the tube obovate-oblong, the limb 
rather unequally 5-toothed ; corolla 5-cleft (often to beyond the mid-— 
dle), the sezments linear, acute, reflexed, the tube rather short and 
swollen ; anthers orange ; berries ovate, about 3 lin. long, minutely 
greyish velvety, crowned with the short tubular calyx-limb. 
Var. 1, pentandrus proper: pedicels about }-1 lin. long. 
_, Var. 2, fari (L. farinosus, Desr.) : flowers on very short 
thick pedicels or rather almost sessile, but sometimes the pedicels 
are nearly $ a line long. 
