280 CXIX. LORANTHACEE (SPRAGUE). [ Loranthus. 
Umbels 3-flowered, solitary or 2-4 together; peduncle 2—24 lin. long, 
hardly longer than the pedicels; bract deltoid-cupular, acute, ciliate, 
umbonate on the back. Flowers reddish, about 1 in. long. Calyx 
spreading. Anthers very shortly bidentate at the apex.—Plicosepalus 
Fauroti, Van Tiegh. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xli. 504, 540, 
Nile Land. Somaliland, at the wells of Meraya, Révoil. 
Also in Arabia. 
Perhaps a mere form of ZL. curviflorus. JT have seen no specimen. 
15. L. kalachariensis, Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. ili. 58 
(1896). Branchlets slightly lenticellate, glabrous, Leaves opposite or 
alternate, oblong, oblong-linear or linear, rounded at the apex, cuneate, 
obtuse or rounded at the base, 14-34 in. Jong, 5-10 lin. broad, rigidly 
coriaceous, glabrous, 3—5-nerved; petiole 3-24 lin. long. Umbels 
solitary or fascicled, sessile or peduncled, 2—6-flowered ; peduncle up to 
5 lin. long; pedicels 5-6 lin. Jong; bract saucer-shaped with an ovate 
or oblong limb, dorsal margin 2-14 lin. long, strongly umbonate or 
keeled, ventral margin } lin. Jong. Receptacle obconical, 2—3 lin. long. 
Calyx ascending, $-§ lin. long. Petals 24 in. long or less, reflexed 
below the middle, coiling into loose spirals, much broadened into the 
base, middle part linear, upper part linear-oblanceolate, basal part with 
4-8 (usually 5) pairs of oblique folds arising from the adnate part of 
the filament. Filaments inserted 34-11 lin. above the base of the 
petals, about 1 in. long, tapering slightly upwards; anthers linear, 
34-7 lin. long. Stigma capitate, 2 lin. in diam.—ZL. Flechii, Schinz, |.c. 
L. Pentheri, Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 376. L. Dinteri, Schinz in 
Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2me sér. i. 869 (1901). L. splendens, N. EH. Br. 
in Kew Bulletin, 1909, 1386. JZ. curviflorus, Schinz, P]. Menyharth. 
42; Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1905, 52; not of Benth. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Benguella, Gossweiler, 1693! on the Kutehi River, 
on Burkea africana, Hook., Gossweiler, 3951! German South-west Africa: Here- 
roland ; between Ubib and Modderfontein, Fleck, 416! Pot Mine, Fleck, 404! Koiras, 
Fleck, 107! Windhoek, Dinter, 306! Grootfontein, Dinter, 698! 
Mozamb. Distr. Portuguese East Africa: Lewer Zambesi; Boruma, Meny- 
harth, 940! British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; Namasi, Cameron, 3! Rhodesia 
Buluwayo, Kolbe, 3184! Rand, 392! Chubb, 313! Eyles, 78! Tuli River, Penther, 
1626! Ngamiland: Lake Ngami, Fleck, 3144! Okavango Valley, Lugard, 232! 
Fleck, 307 ! 
Usually parasitic on Acacia horrida, Willd.; also on a Euphorbia (Fleck, 416). 
16. L. Acacize, Zucc. Pl. Nov. 249, t. 2, fig. 3 (1837-43). Young 
branchlets slender, smooth, glabrous, brownish, slightly glossy, older 
ones more or less rugose, lenticellate. Leaves opposite or suboppo- 
site, straight or slightly arcuate, oblong, elliptic-oblong or lanceolate- 
oblong, obtuse or rounded at the apex, cuneate or obtuse at the base, 
14-44 in. long, 4-15 lin. broad, rigidly coriaceous, glabrous, 3-5-nerved ; 
petioles 1-5 lin. long. Umbels axillary, solitary or fascicled, 2-flowered ; 
peduncle 1-2 lin. long; pedicels 2-3 lin. long; bract saucer-shaped, 
with a shortly ovate or oblong subtruncate dorsal lobe, sometimes 
