A. B. RENDLE : APETAL®. 207 
Near the Somaliland species L. Ehiersii, Schweinf., which it 
resembles in its many-flowered axillary heads of short, slender 
flowers; but is distinguished by its narrower leaves, smaller 
flowers, and the less prominent appendage of the filament below 
the anther. 
Loranruus ($ Tapinanthus) Buvuma, sp. nov. 
Frutex glaber ramis adultioribus griseis, striatulis, incon- 
spieue lenticellatis ; foliis oppositis, coriaceis, oblongis vel 
oblongo-ovatis, acutis, basi subeuneatis, nervis lateralibus 
utrinque 3, ascendentibus; petiolo pro genere longo, 
in facie superiore vix eanalieulato ; capitulis axillaribus, 
plurifloris, sessilibus, pedicello brevi : bractea brevi oblique 
cupuliforme, velut in ealyculo sparse brunneo-pubescente 
et ciliolata ; calyculo supra ovarium breviter infundibuli- 
forme, demum fisso; perizonio puberulo, rubro albo- 
maculato, supra basin subglobosam valde constricto, 
deinde anguste-infundibuliforme et unilateraliter fisso, 
laciniis lineari-oblanceolatis, viridescentibus, apice appen- 
dice brevi triangulari instructis, curvulo-reflexis; filamentis 
linearibus, in dentem subacutum quam anthera triplo 
breviorem exeuntibus; stylo crasso pentagono infra stigma 
obovoideum valde attenuato. 
Island of Buvüma, Victoria Nyanza. Fl. March, 628. 
"Parasite on incense-tree; red flowers speckled with 
white." 
lnternodia in ramis foliiferis 2-5:5 cm. long. in ramis 
florentibus 4-5°5 em. Folia 6-10 em. long., 2-4 em. lat. ; 
petioli sepius 1:5-2 em. long. Pedicellus 2 mm. long. ; 
bractea cirea 1 mm. long. Calyculus L:5-2 mm. supra 
ovarium productus. Perianthii basis inflata vix 5 mm. 
long. et cirea 4 mm. lat.; tubus cirea 45 cm. long., cum 
lobis reflexis (vis 1 cm. long. et cirea 1 mm. lat.) 
Anthere vix 2 mm. long. 
A member of Engler's subsection Constrictiflori near the 
Cameroon species L. ogowensis, which it resembles in the 
appendaged perianth-segments, but differs in its rather larger 
flowers with broader perianth-tube and narrow-based leaves. 
Viscum DICHOTOMUM, D. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal. 142. 
Common in Ruchigga. In young fruit, November, 433. 
Distrib. India; Madagascar; South Africa. 
