Loranthus. } LORANTHACE. 321 
Has.—Very frequent on different trees from Pegu and Martaban down to 
Tenasserim, as well in the mixed forests as in cultivated lands, up to 3,000 ft. 
elevation.— Fl. Aug.-Jan.; Fr. Apr.-Aug.— 
13. L. longiflorus, Desr.; Brand. For. Fl., 397.—An evergreen 
rather large parasitical shrub, all parts glabrous; leaves as in J. 
pentandrus, but still more varying in shape, alternating and oppo- 
site, from oblong and broadly ovate to elliptically oblong and (on 
the younger branchlets or in varieties) lanceolate or linear-lanceo- 
late, blunt to bluntish acuminate, on a thick, short, or sometimes 3-4 
lin. long petiole, about 3 to 5 in. long, entire, thick-coriaceous, with 
the principal nerves more or less visible in a dried state, glabrous ; 
flowers varying in length from 1 to 2 inches, rose-coloured or crim- 
son with greenish or yellow segments, glabrous, on 1-2 lin. long 
pedicels, forming glabrous somewhat one-sided racemes springing 
singly or by pairs from the axils of the leaves or from above the 
scars of the fallen ones ; bract solitary, short and broad, concave ; 
calyx almost bell-shaped, the limb truncate and entire ; corolla glab- 
rous, very slightly curved and widened, deeply 5-cleft, the seg- 
ments linear, reflexed; stamens 5, the anthers linear; style 5- 
sided ; berries oblong, glabrous, crowned by the calyx-limb. 
Var. 1, longiflorus proper: flowers only 1-1} in. long, the 
corolla-tube crimson, the segments yellowish or greenish ; racemes 
usually many-flowered, glabrous. 
Var. 2, bicolor (Z. dicolor, Roxb.) : flowers 2-23 int long and 
even longer, the corolla uniformly rose-coloured or the segments 
green or greenish ; racemes glabrous. 
_ Var. 8, faleatus (2. faleatus, L.£): leaves from linear to 
ear-lanceolate, more or less faleate. 
HaB.—Frequent all over Burma down to Tenasserim and the Andamans, in 
the mixed forests as well as in cultivated lands; var. 2: on the Pegu Yomah ; 
var. 3: in Ava.—Fl. Jan.-Apr.—l. 
| 3-4 in. long 
or longer), minutely puberulous and soon glabrescent raceme in the 
about 2-24 lin. long or a little longer, the limb truncate and entire ; 
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