Loranthus. } CXIX. LORANTHACEE (SPRAGUE). 317 
165, t. 14, figs. H-L; Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. Nachtr. i. 131; 
Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 301. 
Wile Land. Somaliland: Wagga Mountain, Ws. Lort Phillips ! Rassa-Alla, 
Donaldson-Smith! British East Africa: Makindu River, Késsner, 590! between 
Makindu and Kibwezi, Powell, 20! Kibwezi, 3300 ft., Scheffler, 170! Taita; Ndi 
Mountain, Hildebrandt, 2579! Machakos, Pospichal ! 
Mozamb.Distr. (German Hast Africa: Usambara; Kumba Valley, Masheua, 
1500 ft., Holst, 3503! Tanga ; Doda, Holst, 2933! Pangani, Stuhlmann, ser. i. 
773! 
The length of the anthers and the relative length of the tube and lobes appear to 
be very variable in Z. panganensis. When the flower opens the stamens remain 
attached for some time to the style by the membranous appendages of their con- 
nectives, which adhere closely to the neck of the style. 
79. La. faleifolius, Sprague. Young branchlets subangular, some- 
what compressed, glabrous, greenish-grey. Branches nodose, coarsely 
wrinkled, 14-4 lin. in diam. Leaves mostly alternate, faleate or 
scimitar-shaped, rounded at the apex, sometimes apiculate, gradually 
narrowed into the base, 24-3? in. long, 54—7 lin. broad, coriaceous, 
glabrous, 5-7-nerved from near the base; nerves more prominent on 
the upper surface; petiole 2-4 lin. long. Umbels axillary, solitary, 
3-flowered ; peduncle about 1 lin. long; pedicels 3 lin. long; bract 
obliquely cupular, thickly keeled dorsally, dorsal margin i lin. long, 
ventral margin 3 lin. long. Receptacle and calyx together tubular, 
very slightly constricted near the middle, 34 lin. long, glabrous outside. 
Calyx 21-21 lin. long, subtruncate. Corolla reddish-orange, 21 in. 
long, acutely pentagonal in bud, broadest above the middle; tube nearly 
2 in. long, split unilaterally less than half-way down; lobes erect, 
linear, 54 lin. long, 3-3 lin. broad. Filaments inserted about the base 
of the corolla-lobes, slightly tapering upwards, 23-3} lin. long, deflexed ; 
anthers linear, 17 lin. long, 3 lin. broad. Disc slightly lobed, about 
$ lin. high. Style broadened into the base, slightly thickened above. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: near Kaconda, on Cesalpiniex, Gossweiler, 1701! 
_ wL. falcifolius bears a strong resemblance to L. dodoneafolius, DC., from which 
it may be distinguished by the absence of a tooth in front of the anther. 
80. L. Bosciz, Lngl. d Krause in Engl. Jahrb. xliii, 401. 
Branches rather stout, about 2 lin. in diam. 6 in. below the apex, 
buff-coloured, slightly wrinkled longitudinally in a dried state ; branch- 
lets ascending, puberulous or glabrous. Leaves mostly alternate, 
oblanceolate or oblong, rounded at the apex, attenuate to the base, 
3-1} in. long, 14-4} lin. broad, coriaceous, minutely and densely 
pilose, 3-nerved ; lateral nerves often not visible ; petiole 4 lin. long. 
Flowers solitary or fascicled on leafy axillary cushion-like short-shoots ; 
pedicels and bracts minutely and rather densely pilose; pedicels 1 lin, 
long; bract obliquely cupular, 2-lipped or not, dorsal margin 1-1} lin. 
long, slightly umbonate, ventral margin 3-1 lin. long. Receptacle 
and calyx together tubular, 24-23 lin. long, minutely and densely 
pilose outside. Calyx slightly 5-lobed, 1-1} lin. long excluding the 
