18 CXIX. LORANTHACEE (SPRAGUE). | Loranthus. 
intramarginal ring ; intramarginal ring $ lin. long, minutely puberu- 
lous above. Corolla over 1} in. long, minutely papillate-pilose outside, 
not swollen at the base, swollen at the insertion of the stamens in bud; 
tube split unilaterally 43-6 lin. down; lobes erect, linear, 9 lin. long, 
inner surface apiculate. Filaments inserted } lin. above the base of 
the corolla-lobes, 43 lin. long, deflexed, dorsal surface without trans- 
verse grooves ; anthers linear, 34 lin. long; connective produced above 
the filaments. Disc pentagonal, 5-lobed, } lin. high. Stigma depressed- 
globose, under $ lin. in diam.—ZJ. discolor, Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 
iv. App. ili. 52, not of Engl. 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa: Damara Land; Okahandya, 
on Boscia Pechuelii, Kuntze, Dinter, 284! Rehoboth, Fleck, 452! 881! 
81. L. Lugardi, V. £. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1909, 135. Young 
branchlets striate, minutely and densely puberulous, older ones glab- 
rous, greyish, longitudinally lenticellate; internodes 2-5 lin. long. 
Leaves alternate, oblong-oblanceolate or oblong, obtuse or rounded at: 
the apex, cuneate into the base, ?-1} in. long, 24-5 lin. broad, rigidly 
coriaceous, minutely and densely puberulous; lateral nerves slightly 
raised or inconspicuous on the upper surface, not visible on the lower. 
Flowers axillary, subsessile, 2-4 together ; pedicels }~3 lin. long; bract 
obliquely cupular, ?-% lin. long ventrally, 1 lin. long dorsally, ciliate, 
minutely puberulous outside, dorsally thickened. Receptacle and calyx 
together cupular, 13-13 lin. Jong. Calyx obscurely 5-lobed, sparingly 
ciliate, hardly 1 lin. long. Corolla narrowly cylindric, 1} in. long; 
tube 11 lin. long; lobes subspathulate-linear, 6 lin. long, at first erect, 
finally slightly reflexed. Filaments attached about 3 lin. above the 
base of the corolla-lobes, 23 lin. long, slightly tapering upwards, 
inflexed ; anthers linear, 13 lin. long. Dise } lin. high, fleshy. Style 
pentagonal, the uppermost 4 lin. slightly thickened upwards; stigma 
capitate, $ lin. in diam. Berry ellipsoid, 3-3} lin. long, orange, red at 
the apex, apical cup ? Jin. long, red. 
Mozamb. Distr. Ngamiland: Kwebe Hills, mostly on Acacia spp. Mrs. 
Lugard, 20! Totin, near Lake Ngami, Lugard, 32! 
In ZL. Lugardi the fiowers are axillary on the ordinary shoots of the current 
year; in L, Boscia they terminate short shoots borne on the previous year’s growth. 
82. L. Kayseri, Lngl. in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 89. Young branch- 
lets green, older ones greyish, much lenticellate, glabrous. “Leaves 
subopposite or alternate, sessile, broadly obovate, obovate-elliptic or 
suborbicular, rounded at the apex, obtuse or cuneate at the base, 14-24 
in. long, ¢-2 in. broad, thickly coriaceous, glabrous, 3—5-nerved at the 
base. Umbels subsessile, 3-5-flowered ; pedicels 3-8 lin. long; bract 
cupular, truncate, $-} lin. long, glabrous. Receptacle and calyx 
together tubular, 13-13 lin. long, glabrous. Calyx subtruncate, }-$ 
lin. long. Corolla 1 in. long or rather more, glabrous outside; tube 
cylindric-funnel-shaped, split unilaterally, glandular within; lobes 
separating from below upwards, linear-spathulate, 34 lin. long, erect. 
Filaments 2} lin. long, narrowed above; anthers oblong, § lin. long: 
