Loranthus. | CXIX. LORANTHACEE (SPRAGUE). 291 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Uhehe; Matauana Plateau, on 
Berlinia Eminii, Harms, Goetze, 742! 
36. L. crassicaulis, Hngl. in Comptes-rendus Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxix. 
30, emend. Branchlets stout, smooth, glabrous, greenish-yellow, with very 
prominent nodes, 14-1? lin, in diam. near the apex. Leaves alternate, 
ovate or ovate-oblong, obtuse or rounded at the apex, rounded at the 
base, 33-44 in. long, 24-23 in. broad, thickly coriaceous, glabrous, dull, 
minutely corrugated, margin cartilaginous, undulate; midrib slightly 
impressed on the upper surface, very prominent on the lower; lateral 
nerves 8—9 on each side, spreading or patulous, anastomosing far from 
the margin, slightly raised on both surfaces ; petiole stout, enlarged at 
the base, 34-6 lin. long. Umbels 4~5-flowered ; peduncle 1-14 lin. 
long at the time of fruiting; pedicels } lin. long, densely rusty-pilose ; 
bract broadly ovate, very concave, hardly } lin. long, densely rusty- 
pilose outside. Receptacle cupular, nearly 1 lin. long, rusty-pilose. 
Calyx about } lin. long, subtruncate. Corolla 1-1} in. long in bud, 
stellate-puberulous outside, basal swelling ellipsoid, ribbed, 1-14 lin. 
long, apical swelling ellipsoid, 1} lin. long; tube narrowly funnel-shaped, 
glandular inside; lobes erect, spathulate, apical enlargement ovate 
acute, 1 lin. long, % lin. broad. Anthers elliptic-oblong, hardly } lin. 
long. * Dise sunk, about } lin. high, 5-lobed, minutely rusty-pilose on 
the inner surface.—De Wild. & Th. Dur. Reliq. Dewévr, 200 ; De Wild. 
Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, i. 29. 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo: Mayombe District ; near Shinganga, Dewévre, 
278! Stanley Pool District ; Kimuenza, Gillet, 2036! 
Engler included under his Z. crassicaulis two distinct species, one of which 
(Dewévre, 278) belongs to the section Rufescentes, and the other (Demeuse, 
119) to the section Constrictiflori. Demeuse, 119, was subsequently by some 
mistake distributed as DL. Demeusei; and De Wildeman, recognising that it had 
nothing to do with LZ. Demeusei, and apparently unaware that it formed part of 
Engler’s L. crassicaulis, described it as a new species, DL. brazzavillensis (Comptes- 
rendus Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxix. 102). Demeuse, 119, having been made the type of a 
new species, the name L. crassicaulis must be applied to Dewevre, 278, although 
Engler’s description applies mainly to the former. 
37. L. rufescens, DC. Prodr. iv. 303. Branches terete, slightly 
compressed towards the apex. Leaves petioled, rusty-pubescent in a 
young state, elliptic, obtuse at the apex and base, coriaceous. Umbels 
1-3 in each axil, rusty-pubescent, 2—3-flowered ; peduncle shorter than 
the petiole; bract oblong. Receptacle and calyx together urceolate, trun- 
cate. Corolla in bud 3 lin. long, pentagonal at the apex. Berry ovoid. 
—Septimetula rufescens, Van Tiegh. in Bull. Soc, Bot. France, xlii, 266. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia: near Nghianga, Leprieur & Perrottet. 
Known to me only from A. P. De Candolle’s very brief description. 
38. L. Baumii, Engl. d: Gilg in Warb. Kunene-Samb. Hxped. 
228, Young branchlets subterete, rather stout, densely rusty-tomen- 
tose with verticillate-branched hairs. Leaves opposite, ovate or ovate- 
oblong, rounded or more rarely subacute at the apex, rounded at the 
