Loranthus. | CXIX, LORANTHACE (SPRAGUE). 297 
long; pedicels }-1 lin. long; bract broadly ovate, 1j-13 lin. long. 
Receptacle about 3 lin. long, densely whitish-tomentose. Calyx 4-8 lin. 
long, distinctly 5-lobed, lobes triangular. Corolla nearly 1}? in, long, 
pale rose-coloured, purple inside, whitish-floccose-tomentellous outside 
below, sparingly so above, basal swelling oblong-ellipsoid, 23-3 lin. long, 
upper part narrowly 5-winged in bud; lobes erect, spathulate, 84 lin. 
long, the upper enlarged part ovate or narrowly ovate, 24-2? lin. long, 
hardly 14 lin. broad, including the thin margins, which are 4-2 lin. broad. 
Stamens and style orange-coloured. Filaments inserted at the base of 
the corolla-lobes, about 6 lin. long, finally involute; anthers linear, 
13-1? lin. long, cells 5-6 in each of the 2 outer rows, 7-8 in each of 
the inner. Disc crenately 5-lobed, } lin. high, fleshy. Style not 
appreciably thickened upwards; stigma ovoid or ellipsoid, 3 lin. long.— 
Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 928; Engl. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 
Nachtr. i. 131; Engl. & Gilg in Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 227. 
Phragmanthera cinerea, Van Tiegh. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xlii. 262. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Mossamedes ; near S. Joao do Croque, Rio Croque, 
Cabo Negro, on Tamarix orientalis, Forsk., Welwitsch, 4884! Rio Croque, John- 
ston! near Garganto do Diabo, 650 ft., Baum, 4! Umpupe, on the Coroca River, 
1000 ft., Baum, 6! 
48. L. Guerichii, Lngl. in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 130. Branches stout, 
about 23 lin. in diam. in a dried state 1 ft. below the apex, youngest 
part tawny-tomentose with much-branched hairs,soon becoming glabrous, 
greyish-brown, slightly glossy, deeply grooved in a dried state. Leaves 
alternate or subopposite, elliptic or ovate-elliptic, obtuse or rounded at 
both ends, 5-7 lin. long, 23-34 lin. broad, coriaceous, densely tawny- 
stellate-tomentose ; petiole 14—2lin.long. Flowering branchlets arising 
in the axils of fallen leaves, much contracted, bearing 1-2 pairs of leaves 
at the base. Flowers shortly pedicelled, usually geminate; pedicels 
about 1 lin. long; bract exceeding the receptacle and calyx, linear, 
obtuse, tapering very slightly upwards, 2} lin. long. Receptacle 1 lin. 
long, slightly constricted below the apex, tawny-tomentose. Calyx 
nearly obsolete. Corolla over 2} in. long, greyish-tomentose outside in 
a living state, tawny in a dried state, subcylindric and pointed in bud ; 
tube 14 in. long, not swollen at the base ; Jobes erect, lanceolate-linear, 
about 10 lin. long, 4-3 lin. broad above. Filaments inserted 14-2 lin. 
above the base of the corolla-lobes, about 4 lin. long, slightly tapering 
upwards; anthers linear, 2}—23 lin. long, transversely septate, cells 
about 7-9 in each 'vertical row; connective apiculate. Dise sunk,. 
crenately 5-lobed, } lin. high. Style swollen at the base, upper part 
slightly skittle-shaped ; stigma ellipsoid, $ lin. long.—Engl. l.c. xx. 84; 
Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. iii. 53. 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa: Damaraland; Karibib, Girich, 
35! Hereroland ; Stanley Mine, Fleck, 425! 
49. L. fulvus, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 103. Youngest part of 
branchlets densely fulvous-tomentose with verticillate-branched hairs: 
in a dried state, older branchlets greyish, glabrous, wrinkled. Leaves 
