278 CXIX. LORANTHACEE (SPRAGUE). [ Loranthus. 
visible on the lower. Umbels 12—18-flowered; peduncle about } in. 
long ; pedicels 1-1} lin. long; bract ovate-cupular, dorsal margin ? lin. 
long, ventral margin 2 lin. long. Receptacle and calyx together sub- 
cylindric, the former 3 lin. long. Calyx cupular, % lin. long, shortly 
and irregularly 4-lobed ; lobes subtruncate or emarginate. Corolla 
rounded at the apex in bud, carmine-red; petals narrowly linear, 
14-14 in. long, 3 lin. broad near the middle, 4-3 lin. broad near the 
base, ventral flap inserted about 13 lin. above the base, $3 lin. long, 
emarginate or subtruncate. Stamens inserted 8-84 lin. above the base 
of the petals; filaments linear; 5 lin. long, grooved; anthers very 
narrowly linear, 2-3 lin. long. Disc 4-4 lin. high. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: on islands in the Mbiave Rapids, Zenker, 
3406 ! 
11. L. undulatus, 1. Meyer in Drege, Zwei Pfl. Docum. 200, name 
only. Branchlets slender, patulous, rather nodose, inconspicuously 
lenticellate, glabrous. Leaves opposite, sessile, linear-oblong, ovate- 
oblong, ovate or suborbicular, obtuse or rounded at the apex, cordate 
at the base, }-2 in. long, 24-11 lin. broad, coriaceous, glabrous, faintly 
3-nerved. Umbels terminating leafy short-shoots, 2-flowered; peduncle 
14-3 lin. long; pedicels stout, 2-3 lin. long; bract unilateral, broadly 
oblong or ovate-oblong, truncate, 3-1} lin. long, thickly keeled, ciliate 
above. Receptacle obconical, 4+5 lin. long. Calyx ascending, 4-3 lin. 
long. Petals about 1? in. long, subspathulate-linear above, obtuse, 
14-1} lin. broad, ?-% lin. broad in the middle, 13-2} lin. broad 
in the lower third, with 4 pairs of oblique folds arising from the adnate 
part of the filament. Filaments inserted 4 lin. above the base of the 
petals. Style with a double bend shortly above the base, minutely 
pilose above; stigma depressed-capitate, 8 lin. in diam.—Harv. in 
Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. ii. 577;.,Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 130; 
Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. iii. 54. Plicosepalus undulatus, 
Van Tiegh. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xli. 504, 540. 
Lower Guinea. (German South-west Africa: Amboland ; South-east Ondonga, 
at Grootfontein, Schinz, 288! Hereroland, Nels / 
Also in South Africa. 
12. L. sagittifolius, Sprague. Branchlets slender, spreading, 
lenticellate, glabrous. Leaves opposite, sessile, some elliptic, obovate- 
elliptic or elliptic-oblong, rounded at the apex, obtuse, rounded or 
subcordate at the base, $-1} in. long, 4-14 lin. broad, thinly coria- 
ceous, glabrous, 3-5-nerved, nerves very oblique, slightly raised, 
others ovate-oblong or narrowly oblong,- obtuse or rounded at the 
apex, sagittate at the base, }-1} in. long, 3-4 lin. broad. Umbels 
solitary, 3-5-flowered, usually leafy at the base; peduncle 23-5 lin. 
long; pedicels slender, 23-4 lin. long; bract saucer-shaped with a 
shortly ovate dorsal lobe, strongly and acutely umbonate, umbo }-$ 
lin. long, dorsal margin } lin, long, ventral margin 4 lin. long. 
Receptacle cupular, 14-1? lin. long. Calyx patulous, § lin. long. 
Petals 13-1? in. long or more, oblanceolate-linear above, subacute, 
