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Notes on Indian Botany. 



2-3 together, about the length, or occasionally longer than 

 the leaves : flowers pedicelled, with a single lateral cuculate 

 bractea at the base of the ovary, petals four, linear, thicken- 

 ed at the point : flower bud acutely 4-angled ; angles slightly 

 winged towards the apex : ovary subglobose truncated : berry 

 globular, about the size of a pea. 



Hab. — Travancore, Shevagherries, Nei/gherries, on the 

 road side below Coonoor — Flowering, July and August, 



This species is exactly intermediate between L. obovatus 

 and L. Wallichianus ; it has the angularly four-sided flowers 

 of the former with the diminutive size of the latter, though 

 still twice as large, those of Wallichianus being about two 

 lines long, while here they are fully four. In the length 

 of the racemes, as compared with the leaves, it exceeds both. 

 The leaves are from 1 to 2 inches long, and about 1 or 1J 

 broad, coriacious. All the three species are found on the 

 hills : L. Wallichianus at Burliar 2000 feet ; intermedius at 

 Coonoor 6000 ; and obovatus abundant about Ootacamund 

 8000 feet of elevation. When I formerly published it as L. 

 Wallichianus, I had not then seen that plant. 



3. LORANTHUS (EULORANTHUS) BlUMEANUS, (R. W.) 



Glabrous branches terete, young shoots furfuracious : leaves 

 short petioled, broad ovate or subcordate at the base, sub- 

 acuminate : racemes simple, axillary, or 2 or 3 fascicled at the 

 knots of the branches, much shorter than the leaves : flowers 

 pedicelled, bractea anterior, gibbous below : flower bud cylin- 

 drical pointed furfuracious, calyx truncated entire : petals 4, 

 linear acute : ovary globose. 



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 Hab. — ('ourtallum — August, 1835. 



Both this and the preceding belong to De Candolle's 

 section " Breviflora," though in this the flowers are fully an 

 inch long. The flower buds being pointed not gibbous at the 



