Loranthus.] cxxiv. loranth ace^e. 153 
opposite bluish green, coriaceous, lanceolate or ovate, shortly 
acuminate, base decurrent on petiole; nerves 3 to 8 pairs, visible 
when dry; 3 to 4-5 in. long, 1*5 to 2 in. wide (terminal ones smaller); 
petioles winged, -5 in. long. Flowers pale yellow sessile in axillary 
clusters; bracts short, tubular, crenate, -13 in. long. Calyx 
tubular, short and broad. Corolla *4 to *5 in. long, base slightly 
enlarged. Fruit globose, -25 in. through. Hab. Rare, at 3000 to 
4900 ft. altitude. Perak, Ulu Batang Padang (Wray); Larut at 
3000 to 3600 ft. altitude (Kunstler). 
(7) L. Lobbii Hook. fil. F.B.I. v. 204; Gamble, Journ. /Is. Soc. 
Beng. lx. 358. 
Shrub with terete moderately slender brownish branches. 
Leaves thick, coriaceous, glabrous ovate-lanceolate, long acuminate, 
base round or acute; nerves 5 to 6 pairs, but rarely visible; 3 to 
5-5 in. long, 1-5 to 2*5 in. wide; petioles very short and thick or o. 
Flowers minute, sessile, yellow on a cushion-like peduncle 6 to 20 
in the axil. Calyx tubular, -07 in. long. Petals linear-oblong, 
puberulous, -13 in. long. Fruit elliptic, brown, -13 to *2 in. long, 
puberulous. Hab. Commonest at high altitudes, a common and 
slightly variable species, Singapore, Changi; Chan Chu Kang. 
Johor, Kukub. Pahang, Tahan River up to 550 ft. altitude, 
Selangor, Semangkok Pass; Gunong Mengkuang Lebah (Robinson). 
Perak, Goping; Thaiping Hills; Gunong Batu Putih (Wray) ; 
Ulu Bubong (Kunstler). Penang Hill, Balik Pulau Road (Curtis, 
Lobb, etc.). Kedah Peak. 
Van Tieghem has made four species out of this common and hardly 
variable species, none of which is worth keeping up even as a variety. 
(8) L. obtectus Wall. Cat. 534; Gamble, Journ. /Is. Soc. Beng. 
Lc. 3 57 - L. scurrula var. obtecta, Kurz and Hook. fil. F.B.I. v. 
209. 
Slender branched shrub; young parts and inflorescence thickly 
red-tomentose. Leaves chartaceous, opposite, ovate-lanceolate or 
elliptic-oblong, narrowed at tip, base round or cordate, rusty 
tomentose beneath when young, glabrous when adult; nerves 7 to 
8 pairs, fairly conspicuous when dry; 1*5 to 3 in. long, *4 to 2 in. 
wide; petioles *2 in. long. Flowers in axillary fascicles single or 
in short racemes, dense mossy-tomentose. Calyx-tube obovoid, 
■2 in. long. Corolla slender, scurfy-tomentose, curved, -4 to -5 in. 
long. Fruit pear-shaped, about -4 in. long. Hab. Not very 
common, Johor, Kota Tinggi. Malacca, Bruang and on Sonneratias 
in Mangroves (Griffith); Bukit Senggeh (Goodenough). Perak, 
Maxwell’s Hill (Fox). Distrib. Burma and Trang. 
(9) L. ferrugineus Roxb. FI. Ind. ii. 207; Gamble, Journ. ris. 
Soc. Beng. l.c. 360 ; Hook. Bot. Mus. i. 279, t. 59. 
A slender branched bush; young parts and inflorescence and 
underside of leaves densely red-tomentose. Leaves opposite thinly 
