510 
as the leaves, simple: flowers pedicelled : bract, lateral, concave : 
flower-bud sharply 4-angled: petals 4, linear: berry nearly globose, 
at length reflexed, 
Peninsula. Mahableshwur Ghaut. Flowering in May. 
(4).L. Nertenerrensis. (W. & A.) 
ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 382. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 1020.—Spicil- I. t. 88. 
Srzc.Cuar. Glabrous: young branches obscurely angled: leaves 
alternate, elliptic-oblong, thick and somewhat fleshy : peduncles ax- 
illary, aggregated, very short, about the length of the petiole, bear- 
ing an umbel of 3-7 short-pedicelled flowers: bract solitary under 
the ovary, lateral, ovate: corolla ventricosely-gibbous at the base, 
equally 5-cleft to beyond the middle: segments cuneate-linear, re- 
curved : flowers red. 
Neilgherries. 
(5) L. tonicerorpgs, (Linn.) 
Ident. W. &. A. prod. I. p. 882.—Dec. prod. IV. p. 299.—~ 
Roxb. fl. Ind. IL. p. 216. (ed. Wall.) 
Syn. LL. coriaceus, Desr. in Lam. Enc. Meth, IY. p. 297.— 
L. umbellatus, Roth. Nov. Sp. p. 192.—Dee. b. c. p. 316. 
Engrav. Rheede Mal. VII. t. 29.—Wight’s Icon. t. 203. 
Spec. Cuar. Glabrous: young branches slightly 2-edged : Teaves. 
opposite, ovate or oblong-lanceolate, acuminated: peduncles oppo- 
site, axillary, solitary, bearing at the apex a few and somewhat capi- 
tate or several and more or less spiked sessile flowers: bracts 3 at 
the base of each ovary, roundish, acute, eoncave : margin of the 
calyx entire: corolla tubular, curved, slightly gibbous on one side, 
equally cleft into 6 (sometimes 5) cuneate-linear spreading lobes: 
anthers linear, 
Courtallum. Concans. Island of Caranjah. 
(6) L. cariretnatus. (W.¢ 4.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 382. 
Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 304. 
Srrc. Cuar. Glabrous: young shoots compressed and 2-edgedi: 
leaves opposite, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse: petiole sharply-keeled 
at the back : flowers sessile, capitate, few together, each with 3 acute 
concave bracts at the base: limb of the calyx entire: flower-buds 
gibbous, 6-angled upwards: corolla-tube short, infundibuliform ; 
limb cleft into 6 equal cuneate-linear spreading segments as leng as 
the tube, 
Malabar Coast, frequent on Jack trees. Chorla Ghaut. 
