322 CXIX. LORANTHACE® (SPRAGUE). [ Loranthus. 
or fascicled ; pedicels 3 lin. long; bract cupular, with an oblong, rather 
irregular obtuse or acute dorsal lobe, which is 3-4 lin. long, minutely 
glandular-pubescent outside, especially on the dorsal side, glandular- 
ciliate, dorsal margin 14-12 lin. long, umbonate, ventral margin 3-{ 
lin. long, lateral margins 3 lin. long. Receptacle and calyx together 
tubular-flask-shaped, 2-2} lin. long. Calyx subtruncate or slightly and 
irregularly lobed, glandular-ciliate, 14-13 lin. long. Corolla 14-1} in. 
long; tube glandular within, swelling situated 3-1 lin. above the base, 
ellipsoid, 2 lin. long ; lobes erect, linear, 44 lin. long, pale below, red 
above. Filaments 24 lin. long, tapering upwards, 2-ribbed on the inner 
surface, ribs glandular-papillate, the uppermost 32 lin. of the filament 
slightly swollen, subglandular; anthers linear, 7-1} lin. long. Disc 
acutely 5-lobed, } lin. high, 
Nile Land. British East Africa: between Machakos and Kikuyu, 5000- 
6000 ft., Scott-Hiliot, 6580! and without precise locality, Elliott, 368! 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Unyamwezi; Rubugua, Stuhlmann, 
493 ! 
30. L. glomeratus, Lngl. in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 89. Branches stout, 
slightly flexuous, nodose, greyish, glabrous, about 24 lin. in diam. 9 in. 
below the apex, younger part smooth, older part with longitudinally 
cracked bark ; internodes 3-1 in. long. Leaves subopposite or alternate, 
very shortly petioled, obovate-oblong to oblanceolate, rounded or more 
rarely obtuse at the apex, sometimes minutely apiculate, cuneate into 
the base, 14-23 in. long, 3-1 in. broad, thickly coriaceous, glabrous, 
irregularly penninerved, or triplinerved with the lateral nerves arising 
a considerable distance above the base; nerves prominent on the upper 
surface, much less so on the lower, the lateral ones very oblique ; petiole 
3-3 lin. long. Flowers axillary, several together, subsessile ; pedicel 
(solid base of bract) 3 lin. long; bract obliquely cupular, glandular- 
ciliate, 14-13 lin. long including the pedicel, umbonate 1 lin. above the 
base, dorsal tooth triangular, } lin. long, dorsal margin lin. long, ventral 
margin 3-} lin. long. Receptacle and calyx together tubular-flask- 
shaped, 14-13 lin. long. Calyx subtruncate, minutely and sparingly 
glandular-ciliate, { lin. long. Corolla nearly 1} in. long, skittle-shaped 
in bud; tube about 10 lin. long, glandular inside, suprabasal swelling 
subglobose, 1} lin. in diam., commencing 8 lin. above the base, neck 
1}-13 lin. long, inflated part of tube 7 lin. long; lobes erect, linear, 
4 lin. long. Filaments tapering upwards, 2} lin. long, the uppermost 
3 lin. slightly swollen; anthers oblong-linear, 3 lin. long. Disc acutely 
5-lobed, } lin. high. Style glabrous, slightly thickened above, stigma 
ellipsoid, 3 lin. long.—Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 931. ZL. Hen- 
riquesit, Engl. lc. 88, as to Welwitsch, 4881. Agelanthus glomeratus, 
Van Tiegh. in Bull. Soc, Bot. France, xlii. 246, 738. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; near Lake Ivantala, on Gardenia Jovis- 
tonantis, Hiern, Welwitsch, 4880! between Nene and Jau, on Parinarium Mobela, 
Oliv., Welwitsch, 4881! near Lopollo, Welwitsch, 48813! 
91. L. loandensis, Hngl. ¢ Krause in Engl. Jahrb. xiii. 406. 
Branchlets rather slender, about 1 lin. in diam. 1 ft. below the apex, 
