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GENUS II. LORANTHUS. 
Pentandria Monogynia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. From Lorum, a thong, and Axnthes, a flower, in allusion 
to the shape of the petals. 
Gen. Cuar. Shrubs, usually parasitical: leaves opposite or al- 
ternate, entire, usually thick and coriaceous: flowers spiked or race- 
mose or panicled, usually bisexual: calyx-tube ovate: limb trun- 
cated or toothed: petals 4-8, usually 5-6, distinct or united: zsti- 
vation valvular: stamens as many as the petals and opposite to 
them: filaments adnate to the base of the petals: anthers 2-eelled, 
.adnate or erect or versatile: style filiform: stigma simple, capitate 
.or turbinate: berry 1-celled, 1-seeded, usually erowned with the 
-ealyx. 
(1) L. Hooxsrianus. (W. § AD) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 381. 
Srec. Cuar. Branches speckled with small tubereles: leaves 
-seurfy when young, afterwards glabrous, oblong-lanceolate, acumi- 
nated, opposite: spikes axillary, simple, solitary, about the. length 
_of the leaves, many-flowered : flowers a little immersed in the hol- 
lows of the rachis, scurfy ; petals 4, linear: anthers ovate, adnate: 
stigma capitate ; berries globose. 
Peninsula, 
(2) LL. Wattientanus. (Sehult.) 
: Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 881.—Schult. Syst. VIZ. p. 100.— 
‘Dec. prod. IV. p. 294. 
- Sya. L. polystachyus, Wall. in Roxb. ff. Ind. II. p. 247. (ed. 
‘Wall.)—L. terrestris, Heyne.—L. tetrandrus, Do. 
Engrav. Wight’s Teon. t. 143, 
Spec. Cuar. Glabrous: leaves somewhat alternate, ovate, ob~ 
tuse, acute at the base: racemes 1~3, axillary, shorter than the 
leaves, fascicled at the knots of the branches, simple: flowers small, 
pedicelled ; bract lateral, hooded: petals 4, linear-cuneate : berry 
almost globular, at length reflexed. 
_- Courtallum. Parwar Ghant. 
(3) L. oprusarus. (Wall. ) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 381, 
Engrav. Wight’s Ill. II. t. 119. 
‘Spec. Car. Branches speckled: leaves opposite or alternate, 
ovate, rather obtuse, glabrous: racemes 1-2, axillary, about as long 
