286 CXIX, LORANTHACEE (SPRAGUE). | Loranthus. 
split unilaterally down to the middle, rusty-villous-tomentose outside 
with verticillate-branched hairs; tube glandular within, basal swelling 
24-4 lin. long, ellipsoid or ovoid; lobes erect, spathulate, 5}—6 lin. 
long, 3-1} lin. broad. Stamens inserted }—3 lin. above the base of the 
corolla-lobes ; filaments 3-34 lin. long, tapering upwards; anthers 
elliptic-oblong, 1-1} lin. long; cells about 5 in each vertical row. Dise 
pentagonal, shortly rusty-pilose at least on the angles. Style skittle- 
shaped above, neck 3-1 lin. long.—JL. rubiginosus, De Wild. Etudes 
Fl. Katanga, 173. L. rubiginosus, var. grandiflorus, De Wild. l.c. 174. 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Katanga, Cornet ! near Lake Moero, Verdick ! 
The same specimen appears to have served as the type of L. Cornetii, A. Dewévre, 
and of L. rubiginosus, var. grandiflorus, De Wild. It is accompanied by a pencil 
note in Dewévre’s handwriting, but appears never to have been written up by him 
as the type of Z. Cornetii. On incorporation in the Brussels Herbarium after 
Dewévre’s death it was labelled as collected by Captain Descamps. 
27. L. macrosolen, Steud. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. i. 340. 
Youngest branchlets rusty-pubescent, soon becoming puberulous. 
Leaves linear-lanceolate, straight or slightly faleate, narrowed to both 
ends, apex obtuse, base acute, 3-74 in. long, $-1 in. broad, stellate- 
pubescent in a young state, soon glabrous; petiole 5-10 lin. long. 
Umbels 2 or more fascicled in each axil, 4—6-flowered, rusty-pubescent ; 
peduncle 2-3 lin. long; pedicels 14-14 lin. long; bract erect, oblong- 
lanceolate or oblong, obtuse, 1# lin. long, tomentellous within above 
the middle. Receptacle about 1} lin. long. Calyx 3—#? lin. long, bent 
outwards, at first subtruncate, afterwards distinctly 5-lobed, lobes 
triangular. Buds ribbed above. Corolla 24-2? in. long, puberulous 
outside with minute rusty-stellate hairs, basal swelling inconspicuous, 
3 lin. long; lobes erect, spathulate, 74-73 lin. long. Filaments 5 lin. 
long, quadrangular, angles ribbed, dorsa] surface flat, ventral and 
lateral surfaces slightly concave, ribs glandular, the two ventral ones 
approximating towards the base; anthers oblong, 14-1} lin. long; 
cells about 7 in each vertical row. Disc small, sunk, 5-lobed, glabrous. 
Style glabrous, skittle-shaped above, neck 1 lin. long ; stigma capitate, 
3 lin. in diam. Berry ellipsoid, 7-8 lin. long.—Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. 
xx. 82, 89; Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 197; Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzen- 
fam. Nachtr.i. 132. Septimetula macrosolen, Van Tiegh. in Bull. Soe. 
Bot. France, xlii, 266. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Samen; Shoata, Schimper, 529! 1288! Begemeder; 
Ouilla, near Gafat, Schimper, 1490! 
28. L. dschallensis, Lngl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 166. Young branch- 
lets shortly rusty-tomentose, adult ones puberulous, flowering branches 
3-4 lin. in diam. ; internodes 14-2 lin. long on the youngest branchlets, 
3 in. long or less on older ones. Leaves crowded, irregularly ternate, 
decussate, straight or more or less faleate, linear-lanceolate, gradually 
narrowed into the petiole, obtuse or rounded at the apex, 2-34 lin. long, 
4-7 lin. broad, coriaceous, in a young state rusty or fulvous-tomen- 
tellous with short much-branched hairs, soon glabrous, dull; petiole 2-34 
