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Descriptions of Malayan Plants, 



Kayo Tiong. Malay 

 Found in Sumatra. 



Branches woody, straight, with dark coloured bark. — 

 Leaves alternate, rather long-petioled, lanceolate, acute at 

 both ends, entire, smooth, nerved ; four or five inches long. 

 Petioles about an inch in length. Racemes axillary, as long 

 as the leaves, rigid ; flowers pedicellate-divaricate, rather 

 distant from each other, so that the whole has an open stiff 

 appearance. Bractes one embracing the base of the ovary on 

 its outer side. — Calyx rather distinct, nearly entire. Corolla 

 red, perfectly cylindrical before expansion, five-petalled ; 

 limb reflexed, three times as long as the tube ; petals linear, 

 separating almost to the base. Stamina five, inserted on the 

 petals, and nearly as long. Style filiform, erect. Stigma 

 small. Ovary cylindrical, one-seeded. 



Obs. — This is a well marked species having somewhat the 

 habit of a Rhopala in its inflorescence and cylindrical flowers, 

 which are sometimes tetrandrous." — W. Jack's MSS. 



LORANTHUS INCARNATUS. (W. J.;* 

 " Pentandrous ; young leaves and branchlets covered with 

 deciduous, stellate pubescence ; leaves alternate, broad-ovate, 

 acute ; racemes below the leaves, hoary ; calyx five-toothed ; 

 limb of the corolla much shorter than the tube. 

 Found on the island of Pulo Nias. 



Parasitic on trees. All the young parts covered with stel- 

 late pubescence which is easily rubbed off". Leaves alter- 

 nate, petiolate, broad-ovate, attenuated upwards, acute, 

 entire, smooth when adult, nerves strong and distinct ; nine 

 inches long. Petioles short. Racemes from the stem below 

 the leaf-bearing branchlets, generally several together, some- 

 times solitary. Flowers nearly sessile. A small bract at the 



* Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey. 2. p. 213. 



