Loranthus, | CXIX, LORANTHACE® (SPRAGUE). 293 
11,124; name only. ZL. angustitepalus, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xl. 525. 
Hxostemma capitatum, Spreng. Neue Entdeck. ii, 143. Thelecarpus 
Soyavaii, Van Tiegh, in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xlii. 262. 
Upper Guinea. Guinea, Arnim! Gold Coast: by the Volta River, Thon- 
ning! Togo: Tuaro, Kersting, A261! near Lome, Warnecke, 332! Lagos: 
Abeokuta, on Melia Azedarach, Linn., Barter, 3324! Eppah, Barter, 3288! Southern 
Nigeria: Attah (Idda), Vogel, 47! Old Calabar, Thomson, 129! Holland ! Cross 
River, Johnston! Northern Nigeria: Nupe, Barter, 1147! Mount Patteh, Dalziel, 
215! Cameroons: Buea, Preuss, 772! Victoria, Winkler, 99! Bipinde, Zenker, 
827! Batanga, Bates, 35! Cameroon Mountains, up to 3000 ft., Kalbreyer, 95! 
Lower Guinea. Spanish Gaboon: Muni (Danger) River, Mann, 1741! 
French Congo: Brazzaville, Chevalier, 11754! Lower Congo: Mayombe, Laurent ; 
Temvyo, Laurent ; Luvituku, Laurent; Leopoldville, Dewevre, 479, Laurent, 693 ; 
Kisantu, Gillet, 1238, Laurent, 404; Djuma Valley, Gillet. 
South Central, Belgian Congo: Lake Leopold II. District ; Malepie, Kutu, 
Laurent, Equator District; Eala, Pynaert, 405. Kasai District ; Mushenge, 
Lescrauwet, 388. 
Var. sessilis, Sprague. Umbels sessile; pedicels $ lin. long; bract exceeding 
the receptacle and calyx, even in bud, elliptic-oblong or ovate-oblong, 14 lin. long. 
Calyx irregularly lobed, 3~} lin. long, densely ciliate, the longer lobes being on the 
posticous side. Corolla 2 in, long, lobes 9 lin. long. Anthers about 2 lin. long. Disc 
densely rusty-pilose within. 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon: Munda; Sibange Farm, Soyauzx, 386! 
Engler’s description and figures of LZ. Soyauxii do not agree with the specimen 
of Soyaux, 386, in the Kew herbarium, and were apparently taken from the 
Cameroons specimens quoted above under typical L. incanus. 
Var. albus, Sprague. Corolla less than 14 in. long, white. Anthers 13-13 Jin. 
long, 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Mann, 275! 
Var. Gossweileri, Sprague. Branchlets and lower surface of the leaves retaining 
the covering of rusty hairs, which is characteristic of the youngest parts, much 
Jonger than in the type—L. Gossweileri, Engl. & Krause in Engl. Jahrb. xliii. 402. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: District of Cazengo, Gossweiler, 695 ! 
Var. Gossweileri is not unlike ZL. Baumii, from which it may be distinguished 
by the lateral nerves, which are rather conspicuous on the lower surface, as in 
typical Z. incanus. 
40. L. Batangee, “ngl. in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 98. Branchlets 
slender, 14-14 lin. in diam. about 1 ft. below the apex, young parts 
very densely lepidote, internodes #-1}4 in. long. Leaves opposite or 
subopposite, lanceolate or more rarely ovate-acuminate, apex acute or 
subacute, base obtuse, 14-23 in. long, 7-14 lin. broad, chartaceous or 
thinly coriaceous, glabrescent on the upper surface, minutely stellate- 
lepidote on the lower, scales not forming a continuous covering ; lateral 
nerves about 3 on each side, rather oblique, slightly raised on both sur- 
faces ; petiole 24-34 lin. Jong. Umbels sessile, solitary or geminate, 
2-flowered ; pedicels hardly 3 lin. long, rusty-lepidote ; bract ovate- 
lanceolate, shorter than the receptacle and calyx, rusty-lepidote. 
Receptacle and calyx together hardly % lin. long. Corolla yellow, 
under 1} in. long, sparingly stellate-lepidote outside; tube 83-9 lin. 
