348 Descriptions of Malayan Plants. 



Branches long, vimineous. Leaves alternate, petiolate, 

 oblong-ovate, subcordate at the base, attenuated towards the 

 apex which is obtuse, entire, smooth. Petioles short. Spikes 

 axillary, solitary or in pairs, erect, longer than the leaves ; 

 flowers sessile, closely pressed to the rachis before expan- 

 sion. A single small ovate ferruginous bract is situated at 

 the base of each flower. Calyx superior, nearly entire, 

 scarcely toothed. Corolla coccineous, four-petaled, erect, 

 tubular, limb spreading, petals nearly linear, broader at the 

 base. Stamina four, red, erect, inserted into the middle of 

 the petals and equalling them in length ; anthers oblong 

 adnate, red. Style red, erect, scarcely longer than the 

 stamina. Stigma obtusely capitate. Berry ovate ; elongated 

 above, one seeded. Seed contained in a hard shelly four-sided, 

 its apex immersed in gluten into which the radicle shoots. 

 Embryo inverse, the radicle produced beyond the albumen. 



This species is nearly allied to the L. pentapetala of Rox- 

 burgh, agreeing with it in habit and inflorescence. 



LORAMTHUS FERRUGINEUS. Roxb, 



Ferrugineo-villosa, folliis ellipticis obtusis supra glabris, 

 pedunculis fasciculatis axillaribus 2 — 6 floris, floribus te- 

 trandris extus ferrugineo-villosis. 



Roxb : Hort : Beng : p. 87.* 



Sumatra, &c. Malacca, W. G. 



A parasitic shrub which attaches itself firmly to the 

 branches of trees by means of long runners and numerous 

 circular bands. The branches are long and hanging, and 

 when young densely covered with reddish ferruginous wool. 

 Leaves opposite, short petioled, coriaceous, elliptic, obtuse, 

 entire, smooth and green above, ferruginous and densely 

 villous beneath. Stipules none. Peduncles fascicled, from 

 one to four in each axil, 2-6 flowered. A small scale like 



* G. Fl. Ind. 2, p. 207. 



