Loranthus. | CXIX. LORANTHACE# (SPRAGUE). 279 
$-2? lin. broad, under } lin. broad at the middle, much broadened 
downwards from 2 lin. below the insertion of the filaments, about 
14 lin. broad near the base, with 4-5 pairs of oblique folds arising 
from the adnate part of the filament. Filaments inserted 33-7 lin. 
above the base of the petals, 9-10 lin. long, flattened, tapering slightly 
upwards ; anthers linear, 43-5 lin. long, tapering slightly downwards. 
Style without a double bend near the base; stigma capitate, 3 lin. in 
diam. —Z. wndulatus, var, sagittefolius, Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 167, 
t. 18, figs. A-C; Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 304. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: parasitic on many trees in the coast districts, 
Battiscombe, 162! Kibwezi, on Leguminose, Scheffler, 338! Kapte Plains, Gregory ! 
Gondeona, on the Umba River, Késsner, 116! 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Usambara; Gombelo, Holst, 2173! 
Masheua, Holst, 8835! Muoa, Holst, 3103! Kilimanjaro Region; Lake Jalla, 
Volkens, 337! Usafua; lower slopes of Poroto Mountain, 5600 ft., on Acacia sp., 
Goetze, 1038. * 
13. L. curviflorus, Benth. ex Oliv. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1304. 
Branches spreading ; branchlets slender, more or less nodose, glabrous, 
soon lenticellate. Leaves opposite, subopposite or alternate, linear, 
- oblanceolate-linear or oblanceolate (more rarely obovate-oblong), obtuse 
or rounded at the apex, cuneate at the base, }-24 in. long, 2-5 lin. 
broad, rigidly coriaceous, glabrous, 3—-5-nerved, nerves indistinct or 
hidden; petiole 3-1 lin. long. Umbels solitary, 4—6-flowered ; 
peduncle 1-3 lin. long; pedicels 2-4 lin. long; bract elliptic-cupular 
or ovate-cupular, dorsal margin 3 lin. long, lateral § lin., ventral 
4-2 lin. long, more rarely saucer-shaped with a small dorsal lobe, 
conspicuously umbonate, umbo obtuse or horned. Receptacle cam- 
panulate or urceolate, 14-1? lin. long. Calyx patulous, 4-3 lin. long. 
Petals 1} in. long, reflexed above the middle, with 4—8 (usually 5) pairs 
of oblique folds arising from the adnate part of the filament. Fila- 
ments inserted 4-5 lin. above the base of the petals, 6-10 lin. long ; 
anthers linear, slightly tapering downwards, 4-5 lin. long. Style 
broadened into the stigma in the uppermost 1}-1} lin. ; stigma depressed- 
eapitate, 3—} lin. in diam.—Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 130; Engl. Pf. 
Ost-Afr. ©. 167; Schweinf. et Volk. in Ghika, Pays des Somalis, 200 ; 
Schweinf, in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. ii. 150. Plicosepalus curvi- 
florus, Van Tiegh. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xli. 504, 540. 
Nile Land. Nubia; coast region, Bent! Eritrea: Farach Mountain, near 
Ailet, 1700 ft., Schweinfurth, 450; Aigede Valley, below Aidereso, 4800 ft., 
Schweinfurth, 1836. Abyssinia, Plowden! Somaliland: Golis Range, Drake- 
Brockman, 193! 195! 197! Burka Region, Ghika; Brava (Barava), Kirk! 
Habrawal ; Ania, Donaldson-Smith ! 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Usambara; Doda, Holst, 2936! 
Amboni, Holst, 2726! Nyika Country, Wakefield ! 
Also in Arabia. 
14, L. Fauroti, Franch. in Journ. de Bot, i. 135. Branches virgate, 
bark dirty-grey, lenticellate. Leaves shortly petioled, linear-oblong, 
obtuse, hardly more than 1 in. long, arising from the older nodes. 
