Loranthus. | CXIX, LORANTHACE (SPRAGUE). 309 
long, broadened above; anthers linear, 24 lin. long, biapiculate. Disc 
z lin. high. Stigma ellipsoid, } lin. long, 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: without precise locality, Busse, 
1128! 
70. L. ulugurensis, Lng. in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 381. Young 
branchlets and leaves villous-tomentose with rusty verticillate-branched 
. hairs; branchlets about 14 lin. indiam. 1 ft. below the apex. Branches 
yellowish-grey, lenticellate, 24-3 lin. in diam. ; internodes 2-2} in. long. 
Leaves opposite, oblong or ovate-oblong, more rarely elliptic, rounded 
at the apex, deeply cordate at the base, 14-23 in. long, 1-14 in. broad, 
thinly coriaceous, upper surface glabrescent, dark brown in a dried 
state, lower surface coarsely rusty-pubescent with verticillate-branched 
hairs; lateral nerves hardly visible; midrib prominent on the lower 
surface, tomentose; petiole about 3 lin. long, rusty-tomentose with 
verticillate-branched hairs. Heads axillary, 4-flowered; peduncle 
about 1 lin. long, rusty-tomentose, villous at the apex; bract sub- 
foliaceous, trough-shaped, 44 lin. long, 13-2 lin. broad when flattened 
out, glabrous inside near the base, elsewhere fulvous-tomentellous 
with verticillate-branched hairs. Receptacle and calyx together 
narrowly cupular, almost 1 lin. long; receptacle very densely villous 
with red erect branched hairs up to 1 lin. long. Calyx 3 lin. long, 
truncate, not so densely villous as the receptacle, ciliate. Corolla 
orange, 1} in. long, clothed with long little-branched and short much- 
branched hairs, basal swelling narrowly obovoid-oblong, 2 lin. long, 
glabrescent below, remainder of tube 64 lin. long; lobes 9-10 lin. long, 
reflexed below the middle, lower half linear, upper half linear-oblanceo- 
late. Filaments inserted 23-3 lin. above the base of the corolla-lobes, 
4-41 lin. long, lower half linear, upper half much-thickened, involute ; 
anthers narrowly oblong, nearly ? lin. long. Disc pentagonal, 3 lin. 
high. Style slender, very slightly thickened above; stigma ellipsoid- 
spindle-shaped, 3 lin. long. 
rica Distr. German East Africa: Uluguru; Nglewenu, S¢: h’mann, 
2! 
71. L. virescens, NV. £. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1906, 168. Young 
branchlets fulvous-tomentose with verticillate-branched hairs, older ones 
greyish, glabrous. Leaves opposite, elliptic or elliptic-ovate, rounded 
at the apex, rounded or hardly subcordate at the base, 1-1} in. long, 
4-1 in. broad, densely stellate-pubescent ; petiole 2-4 lin. long. Umbels 
4-flowered (or 5—7-flowered racemes, 1—3 additional flowers being inserted 
lower down the peduncle), axillary, or terminating axillary much-con 
tracted short-shoots bearing 2 pairs of leaves ; peduncle (or rhachis) 3-14 
in. long, tomentellous; pedicels 14-4 lin. long; bract subfoliaceous. 
narrowly oblong, lanceolate, spathulate-oblong or recurved-trough- 
shaped, 3-6 lin. long, 3-14 lin. broad, pubescent on the lower surface, 
glabrous on the upper. Receptacle and calyx together cupular or sub- 
urceolate, 13-1} lin. long, villous-tomentose outside. Calyx truncate 
or slightly 5-lobed, 4-3 lin. long. Corolla 2-2} in. long, hirsute-villous 
outside with branched hairs; tube about 8 lin. long, basal swelling 
