738 PHANER0GAM1A. 



9. Loeanthus (Dendropthoe) insularum, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 98.) 



X. glaber ; rarnis teretibus; foliis oppositis petiolatis ovatis obtusis sub- 

 qidntuplinerviis vix venosis; pedunculis axillaribus brevibus racemoso- 

 plurifloris ; pedicellis trifloris; floribus (sesqui-bipollicaribus) hexa— 

 lieptameris. 



Hab. Feejee Islands ; at Vanua-levu and Kewa. Samoan Islands ; 

 on Tutuila and Savaii. Tongatabu. 



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There are various forms in the collection ; but they appear all to 

 belong to one species, which is nearly related to L. Forsterianus, but 

 distinguished by its larger and usually rounder leaves and larger 

 flowers, either hexamerous or heptamerous. It is parasitic on Ino- 

 carpus and other trees. Branches terete, glabrous, as is the whole 

 plant. Leaves opposite, coriaceous, ovate, varying to roundish or to 

 oblong, obtuse, often rounded at the apex, but sometimes narrowed, 

 either rounded at the base, or abruptly contracted into a petiole of 3 

 to 6 lines in length, 2 to ?A inches long, li to 2 inches wide, rather 

 dull, the midrib sending off 3 or 4 rather inconspicuous ascending 

 veins on each side, mostly towards its base, so that the leaf appears 

 quintuplinerved ; the veinlets very obscure or wanting. Peduncles 

 axillary, or mostly from the old wood whence the leaves have fallen, 

 short (about half an inch long, the rhachis about the same length or 

 longer), horizontal, terete, racemosely many-flowered; the pedicels 

 opposite, 3 or 4 pairs with a terminal one, a line and a half long, 

 recurved, three-floioered. Flowers hermaphrodite, pendulous, sessile 

 on the apex of the pedicel, or the two lateral ones slightly pedicel- 

 late; each subtended at the base of the cylindraceous ovary by a short 

 and broad, half-clasping, ovate bractlet. Limb of the calyx half a 

 line long, truncate, slightly repand. Corolla red, or often yellow 

 towards the base, linear-filiform in the bud, 11 or 2 inches long, of 6 

 or 7 narrowly linear valvate petals, which at first are connivent or 

 cohering into an angled tube, the limb (3 lines long) spreading in 

 an thesis, at length separating quite to the base, and deciduous. Fila- 

 ments 6 or 7, equal, connate to the face of the petal up to the 

 spreading portion which constitutes the limb; the free portion about 



