Loranthus] XCVI. LOEANTHACEiE 551 



Malabar. Glabrous, 1. broad elliptic, 2-3 in. long, sessile or on short petioles. Bi'act& 

 connate into a coloured bell-sliaped involucre, l-lj in. long, fl. green and red, lJ-2 in. 

 long, 5 in one involucre. 35. L. involucratus, Roxb. Sikkim Terai, ascending to 2,000 

 ft. Assam. Khasi bills. L, minutely pubescent, 1. ovate or ovate-lanceolate, blade 

 4-6, pet. l-l in. Fl. villous, wbite, 4 in one involucre, i in. long, bracts free, as long 

 as fl. 



III. Each fl. supported by 1 bract and 2 bracteoles. L. glabrous, opposite 



or nearly so, corolla-segments 6, sometimes 5. 



A. Fl. in short fascicled racemes, corolla-segments as long as tube. 



36. L. trigOETis, Wight & Arn. Ghats of the South Konkan and North Kanara,. 

 common. Along backwaters in Travancore. Branchlets robust, triquetrous, 1. thickly 

 coriaceous, opjDosite or in whorls of 3, broadly elliptic, obtuse, blade 4-6, pet. stout,. 

 i~J in. !F1. |-1 in. long, racemes often from the old wood. Bracteoles connate into a 

 small cup, corolla-lobes thick spathulate, stigma globose. 



37. L. ampullaceiis, Eoxb. Yern. Brigmara, Ass. Subhimal. tract from Nepal east- 

 wards, ascending to 2,000 ft. Assam. Khasi hills. Cachar. Chittagong. Burma^ 

 Upper and Lower. — Malay Peninsula. China, L. opposite, elliptic, blade 3-5, pet. J in.^ 

 sec. n. slender. PI. purple and yellow (Upper Burma, Smales), white (Boxb, MSS. 

 drawing 2229), |-| in. long, pedicels often very short, corolla-tube 6-angled, stigma 

 clavate, fr. ellipsoid or nearly globose, 38. L. globosus, Eoxb., fx'om the same localities- 

 as 37 and probably the same species, is supposed to dijQfer by narrower L, sec. n. obscure^ 

 fr. globose. 39. L. Brandisianus, Kxitz. Hills east of Toungoo 3,000 ft. L. rigidly 

 coriaceous, lanceolate, blade 4-6, narrowed into pet. J in. long, midrib prominent, sec. n. 

 obscure. Fl. IJ in. long, corolla sharply 6-gonous, stigma clavate. 40. L. hypoglaucus,. 

 Kurz. Hills east of Toungoo, 5-6,000 ft. L. elliptic-lanceolate, glaucous beneath, 

 sec. n. obscure, blade 3 in. long, narrowed into short petiole, fl. bright crimson, IJ-lf in. 

 long. Possibly identical with L. evenius, BL, of Java. 



B. n. sessile, decussate on short 2-6-fld. spikes, rachis stout. 



(a) Bracts and bracteoles shorter than calyx, free portion of calyx tubular^ 

 longer than ovary. 



41. L. loniceroides, Linn. ; Wight Ic. t. 303. JBcttungH, Thana, Western Coast and 

 Western Ghats, from the Thana district southwards. Ceylon. L. coriaceous, ovate- 

 lanceolate to lanceolate, blade 3-4, pet. J-J in. PL red, 1™2 in. long, anthers exserted, 

 yellow, filaments green. 42. L. capiteUatus, Wight & Arn. ; Wight Ic. t. 304. Western 

 Ghats from Mahabaleshwar southwards. Ceylon. PI. 4-1 in. long. Possibly a var. 

 of 41. 43. L. psilantMs, Hook. f. Sikkim, 4-6,000 ft. Assam. Khasi hills. Manipiir. 

 Similar to 41, 1. larger, pet. longer, spikes often from the old wood, corolla very slender, 

 red and yellow. 



(6) Bracts and bracteoles longer than calyx, free portion of calyx shorter 

 than ovary. 



44. L. albidus, Blume. Mergu.i. Malay Penins. and Archip. L. thinly coriaceous, 

 blade 4-5, pet. ^-1 in. Spikes with 1-3 pairs of fl., the rachis thick, fl. immersed in 

 shallow decussate cavities of the rachis, which terminates in a hard pyramidal point* 

 Bracts and bracteoles coriaceous, J- J in, long. Corolla 1-1 J in. long, tubular, curved, 

 lobes half the length of tube. 45. L. OoUettii, King. Shan hills plateau 5,000 ft. 

 (CoUett). Hills east of Bhamo. 4,500 ft. (Mont. Hill). L. ovate-lanceolate, blade 6, 

 pet. 1 in. One pair of large blood-red fl. 2-2J in. long on stout peduncles J in. long, 

 rachis prolonged between the fl. into a broad conical tip, bracteoles coriaceous, broad, 

 truncate, enclosing the ovary, corolla-tube wide at base, then constricted, afterwards 

 gradually widening. 



2. VISCUM, Linn. ; M. Brit. Ind. v. 223. 



Glabrous parasites, branches dichotomous or trichotomous. L, opposite^ 

 often reduced to scales. M. unisexual, small or minute, solitary or fascicled 

 at the nodes or in the leaf-axils. 6 ' perianth 3-4~fid., anthers broad, adnata 

 to perianth-lobes, cells numerous, opening by many pores. ? perianth-tube 

 adnate to ovary, stigma sessile or nearly so, large, pulvinate. Pr. succulent, 

 pulp viscid. Embryos sometimes 2-3 in each seed, terete, in fleshy albumen. 

 Species 30, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia. 



Yern. names used indiscriminately for several species : Bctna, Banda, Fand^ Hind. *, 

 Ottn, Tarn. 



A. Leaves conspicuous, perianth-segments deciduous. 



