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78. LORANTHACEiE. 



[Loranihas. 



1. LORANTHUS, 



Shrubs, often with stellcate hairs. Flowers usually lar^e, coloured. 



Petals free or more or less . • . 



anthers, cells parallel. 



connate into a tube. Stamens with versatile 



L, WallicJiianus, 

 L. ohtiisatus. 



L, scurrula. 

 L. ^ulierulentus. 



L, gihhosus. 

 StocTcsii, 



Flowers small in glabrous spikes. Bract scale- 

 like.^ Corolla 4-cleft, lobes reflexed sym- 

 metrically. Anthers continuous with the 

 tilamftnts, 2-celled. (Phoeuicanthemum.) 

 Leaves short petioled. 



Flowers \ in.; buds cylindric ... 1. 

 Leaves long petioled. Flowers |-1 in. ; 



buds 4-argled , ... ... 2. 



Flowers in axillary fascicles or racemose, 

 mealy-toraentose. Bract scale-like. Calyx 

 limb 0. Corolla long-curved, 4-lobed, deeply 

 cleft behind. Anthers narrow, cells indis- 

 tinct. (Cichlanthus.) 



Flowers, etc., rusty villous. Corolla buff or 



Piiak 3^ 



Flowers, etc., covered with white, floccu- 

 lent, mealy, stellate tomentum. Corolla 



pale -green ... 4. 



Flowers in axillary clusters or racemes. Bract 

 scale-like. Calyx toothed above the ovary. 

 Corolla gibbously inflated or not, 5-lobed. 

 Anther-cells indistinct. (Dendrophthoe.) 

 Flowers villous or pubescent. 

 Flowers in peduncled or sessile fasci- 

 cles, densely rusty- villous. Fruit 



ovoid 5, 



Flowers solitary, sessile buff, mealy 

 pubescent. Fruit pyriform ... 6. 

 Flowers glabrous. 



Flowers subsessile in axillary fascicles. 

 Corolla-tube gibbously inflated above 

 the middle, lobes 5. Leaves small, 



cuneate 7. L. cimeatus. 



Flowers in solitary or fascicled racemes, 

 secund. Corolla long, slender, slightly 

 dilated above the middle. Leaves 



large, oblong, elliptic 8 Zy, longijiorm. 



Flowers in axillary fascicles, sessile. 

 Corolla-tube funnel-shaped, split, 

 lobes 5, filiform, elastically coiled, 

 longer than the tube. Leaves ellip- 

 tic, oblong ... ... ... ... 9. i. elasticus. 



Flowers 4-5, enclosed in a large bell-shaped 

 involucre. (Tolypanthus.) 



Corolla-tube narrow,'straight, slightly dilat- 

 ed in the middle, contracted at the base 



of the lobes, lobes I the length of the tube. 10. L. lageniferus. 

 Flowers in axillary clustered cymes or racemes. 

 Bracts connate in a small cup. (Macrosolen.) 

 Branchlets triquetrous. Leaves often 

 whorled in 3's. Corolla small, acicular ... 11. L. trigonus. 

 Flowers few, large, decussately arranged on 

 short sessile or peduncled spikes. Bracts and 

 bracteoles large, orbicular,at length deciduous. 

 (Elytranthe.) Anthers multilocellate. 



Corolla curved, | in. long 12, L. loniceroides. 



Corolla straight, f-f in. long 13, capitellatus. 



