294 CXIX. LORANTHACE® (SPRAGUE). | Loranthus. 
long. Filaments inserted 3 lin. above the base of the corolla-lobes, 
3 times as long as the anthers; anthers linear.—TZhelecarpus Batange, 
Van Tiegh. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xl. 262. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Great Batanga, Dinklage, 676! 
41. L. irebuensis, De Wild. Miss. E. Laurent, 76, ¢. 35. 
Youngest parts stellate-lepidote, soon glabrous. Branchlets slender, 
subterete, dark brown, finely and densely lenticellate. Leaves opposite 
or subopposite, oblong-elliptic or lanceolate, acutely acuminate, cuneate 
at the base, straight or subarcuate, 2-34 in. long, ?-1} in. broad, 
thinly coriaceous, glabrous or with a few stellate scales on the lower 
surface, slightly glossy and rather finely reticulate on the upper sur- 
face, dull on the lower; lateral nerves 3-4 on each side, oblique, 
slightly raised on the upper surface, less so on the lower; petiole 23-4 
lin. long. Fascicles axillary, several-flowered, rusty or fulvous-pubes- 
cent with small stellate hairs; pedicels 1 lin. long; bract broadly 
ovate or elliptic, rounded, 3—}? lin. long, very concave, ventral margin 
hardly surrounding the receptacle. Receptacle $ lin. long. Calyx 
$-% lin. long, 5-lobed, ciliate ; lobes triangular, }-} lin. Jong. Corolla 
about 13 in. long, narrowly cylindric in bud, sparingly stellate-lepidote 
outside in the upper part; tube glandular within, split unilaterally 
and slightly funnel-shaped above ; lobes subspathulate-linear, 64-7 lin. 
long, eventually slightly deflexed. Filaments inserted } lin. above the 
base of the corolla-lobes, about 4 lin. long, tapering upwards; anthers 
linear, 1} lin. long, transversely septate; cells about 8 in each vertical 
row. Disc annular, 4 lin. high, fleshy. Style filiform, pentagonal; 
stigma ellipsoid, } lin. long, } lin. in diam, 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon River, Mann, 989! 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Equator District; Irebu, Laurent ! 
42. L. Gygiarum, Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw.i.929. Branchlets 
nodose, youngest parts densely rusty-pilose, soon becoming glabrous ; 
internodes 14-5 lin. long. Leaves opposite, ovate-oblong or elliptic, 
rounded or obtuse at both ends, 14-3 in. long, 3-12 in. broad, coria- 
ceous, sparingly stellate-pilose in a young state, when adult glabrous 
or nearly so on the upper surface, stellate-puberulous on the lower ; 
petiole 3-44 lin. long. Flowers fascicled on the old wood ; pedicels 
about 1% lin. long, almost glabrous; bract broadly ovate, 1 lin. long 
and broad, pilose at the apex, otherwise glabrous. Receptacle }-$ lin. 
jong, glabrous. Calyx glabrous, 1-3 lin. long, margin undulate. 
Corolla scarlet, about 13 in. long, glabrous; tube narrowly cylindric, 
about 13 lin. long ; lobes erect, subspathulate-linear, 7 lin. long. _Fila- 
ments inserted % lin. above the base of the corolla-lobes, 34 lin. long; 
anthers linear, 14-12 lin. long, transversely septate, cells about 5 in 
each vertical row. Stigma ovoid, 2 lin. long. Young berries globose, 
green. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Golungo Alto; by the Delamboa River, and in the 
Capopa Forests, on Albizzia sp., Welwitsch, 5281! 
