Loranthus. | CXIX, LORANTHACEE (SPRAGUE). 285 
Calyx } lin. long, truncate. Corolla 14-14 in. long, villous-tomentose 
outside with verticillate-branched hairs, hairs about 3 lin, long; tube 
slender, split unilaterally, basal swelling slight, about 1 lin. long; 
lobes erect, spathulate, 54 lin. long, apical enlargement elliptic, acute, 
1 lin. long, 3-2 lin. broad. Filaments inserted about the base of the 
corolla-lobes, linear, 4-4} lin. long; anthers elliptic-oblong, {4 lin. 
Jong; cells 2-4 in each vertical row. Disc very small, densely rusty- 
pilose, hairs }-3 lin. long. Style densely glandular-papillate above the 
glabrous lower third, strongly skittle-shaped above, neck 3 lin. long ; 
stigma peltate, {—4 lin. in diam. 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo, Smith ! 
25. L. angolensis, Hngl. in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 101. Young 
branchlets rusty-tomentose with much-branched hairs, older ones 
puberulous. Leaves lanceolate or ovate-oblong, obtuse at the apex, 
rounded and slightly unequal at the base, 2-43 in. long, 1-1} in. 
broad, coriaceous, glabrous and dull above, rusty-tomentellous beneath ; 
petiole 7-10 lin. long. Umbels several in an axil, 5-4-flowered, rusty- 
tomentellous with verticillate-branched hairs; peduncle 1#-2 lin. 
long; pedicels 1? lin. long; bract broadly ovate, ? lin. long, suberect, 
glabrous inside. Receptacle 1 lin. long. Calyx 4 lin. long, 5-lobed. 
Corolla 2 in. long, split unilaterally, only slightly enlarged towards the 
base, rusty-tomentellous outside with short much-branched hairs ; 
tube densely glandular within; lobes erect, spathulate, 64 lin. long. 
Filaments inserted 4 lin. above the base of the corolla-lobes, 54 lin. 
long; anthers oblong, 8 lin. long; cells 3-4 in each verticalrow. Disc 
small, 5-lobed, rusty-pilose. Style densely glandular, skittle-shaped 
above, neck 4 lin. long; stigma capitate, 3 lin. in diam.—Hiern in Cat. 
Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 930; Engl. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. Nachtr. 
i. 1382. Metule angolensis, Van Tiegh. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, 
xlii. 263. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Golungo Alto; in forests in Sobato Quilombo, 
parasitic on Spondias microcarpa, A. Rich., Welwitsch, 4844! 
26. L. Cornetii, A. Dewévre in Comptes-rendus Soc. Bot. Belg. 
Xxxili. 106, name only ; xxxiv. 92 (1895), deser. Young branchlets 
and leaves rusty-tomentose with verticillate-branched hairs, branchlets 
1}-2 lin. in diam. 2 in. below the apex; uppermost internodes }-1 in. 
long. Leaves opposite, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, obtuse or rounded at 
the apex, rounded or more or less cuneate at the base, 34-5 in. long, 
1$-2} in. broad, thickly coriaceous, very minutely and densely stellate- 
pilose especially on the lower surface, the hairs just visible under a 
powerful lens, dull, greyish in a dried state; lateral nerves oblique, 
6-7 on each side, conspicuously raised on the upper surface, less so on 
the lower; midrib broad, very prominent on both surfaces; petiole 
4—8 lin. long, finely rusty-pubescent especially on the lower surface. 
Heads 2-3-flowered, rusty-tomentose ; peduncle 1} lin. long; bract 
ovate, 12 lin. long, solid base 3 lin. long. Receptacle 1}—-14 lin. long. 
Calyx cupular, shortly lobed, 3-2 lin. long, ciliate. Corolla 13-2 in. long, 
