270 CXIX, LORANTHACE% (SPRAGUE). [ Loranthus. 
Apical swelling oblong or 
ovoid-oblong. 
Leaves cordate at the base. 145. L. kisantuensis. 
Leaves not cordate at the 
base. 
Leaves acute; lateral 
nerves hardly visible . 146. L. brazzavillensis, 
Leaves obtuse or rounded; 
lateral nerves distinct. 147, ZL. lanceolatus. 
Corolla more or less pilose outside. 
Buds distinctly truncate or depressed-truncate. 
Peduncle with an apical cup-shaped depression 
round which the flowers arise in a circle. 
Leaves sessile . c 5 x . 149. LZ. Warneckei. 
Leaves petioled . : ° . . 150. ZL. truncatus. 
Peduncle without an apical cup. 
Calyx suberect, about as broad as the eda 
tacle : < . 151. L. tschintschochensts. 
Calyx patulous, much broader than the recep- 
tacle. 
Leaves ovate-oblong or lanceolate. . 152. LZ. Buvume. 
Leaves broadly ovate or elliptic . . 158. L. Buchneri. 
Buds not distinctly truncate. 
Leaves pubescent or puberulous. 
Leaves densely pubescent. . ° ° - 154, LD. mollissimus. 
Leaves puberulous. . 155. L. malacophyllus. 
Leaves glabrous, or at most the nerves pilose. 
Corolla villous . “ ° ° c . 156. ZL. erianthus. 
Corolla shortly pilose. 
Apical swelling of the bud obtusely penta- 
gonal or subterete. 
Young branchlets coarsely and densely 
rusty-pilose ; leaves 23-4 in. long . 157. LD. Mechowit. 
Young branchlets very minutely pilose 
or glabrous ; leaves 3—23 in. long. 
Leaves sessile, broadly ovate, deeply 
cordate at thebase . . 158. L. glaucophyllus. 
Leaves usually petioled, elliptic or 
ovate to lanceolate or oblanceolate, 
cuneate, obtuse or rounded at the 
base (very rarely subcordate) . 159. L. namaquensis. 
Apical swelling of the bud narrowly 5- 
winged or conspicuously ribbed. . 160. LD. quinguangulus. 
148, L, sessilifolius. 
Imperfectly known species of this section z L161, L. Thouningis. 
27. Erectitos!. Umbels or , healt axillary, solitary or fascicled, several- 
flowered ; bract cupular or unilaterally developed Srom a cupular or saucer-shaped 
base, Calyx with or without an intramarginal ring. Corolla in bud with a 
distinct apical swelling ; tube split unilaterally, with a distinct basal swelling ; 
lobes much:shorter than the tube, erect. Filaments deflexed or inflexed, tapering 
upwards, sometimes thickened at the apex, produced into a tooth in front of the 
anther. Anthers oblong or linear, not transversely divided. Disc annular, Style 
skittle-shaped ; stigma capitate. Be eaters vont Van Tiegh. in Bull. Soc, Bot. 
France, xiii. 267, partly. 
