Loranthus. | CXIX. LORANTHACE# (SPRAGUE). 341 
long; tube split unilaterally ; lobes spathulate, 4-5 lin. long. Filaments 
23-3 lin. long, tooth 4 lin. long; anthers oblong, 3-1 lin. long. Disc 
slightly lobed, $ lin. long. —Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 166. Z. Thomasii, Engl. 
in Engl. Jahrb. xl. 531. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Takaunga; Muerani, Thomas, ser. ii. 63! 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: coast opposite Zanzibar; Muoa, 
Holst, 3130! Vikindo, Stuhlmann, 6132! 
122. L. longipes, Baker & Sprague. Young branches slender, 
blackish, slightly compressed towards the apex, soon becoming terete, 
adult ones terete, greyish, minutely lenticellate, 13 lin. in diam. 1 ft. below 
the apex ; internodes 3-2 in. long. Leaves opposite, ovate-elliptic, obtuse 
or rounded at the apex, subcordate, rounded or obtuse at the base, 
23-3} in. long, 1-24 in. broad, thinly coriaceous, glabrous; lateral 
nerves 4—5 on each side, patulous, anastomosing far from the margin, 
slightly raised on both surfaces ; petiole 2-3 lin. long. Umbels axil- 
lary, fascicled, 10-14-flowered ; peduncle slender, 3-14 in. long ; pedicels 
1}-24 lin. long; bract shortly and broadly boat-shaped, 14-14 lin. long, 
rounded or retuse, sparingly ciliolate, very thickly keeled, keel horned 
above, horn 4-1 lin. Jong or less, ventral margin saucer-shaped, 4 lin. 
long. Receptacle and calyx together cupular, 3-1 lin. long. Calyx 
subtruncate, }-4 lin. long, intramarginal ring ;1, lin. high. Corolla 
13-12 in. long, with an oblong-ellipsoid pentagonal apical swelling in 
bud; tube rose-madder with darker lines, basal swelling slight; lobes 
Spathulate, 54 lin. long. Filaments tapering upwards, 4 lin. long, tooth 
} lin. long; anthers oblong, 14 lin. long; connective slightly produced 
beyond the cells. Dise not distinctly lobed, + lin. high. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Dar-es-Salaam, Kirk ! 
123. L. dodonezfolius, DC. Mém. vi. t. 9. Branchlets rather 
slender, about 14 lin. in diam. 1 ft. below the apex, pallid, slightly 
wrinkled or striate in a dried state, glabrous ; internodes 3-14 in. long. 
Leaves opposite, ternate or alternate, linear-lanceolate, straight or 
subfalcate, obtuse or rounded at the apex, narrowly cuneate into the 
base, 2-4 in, long, 3-11 lin. broad, rather thinly coriaceous, glabrous, 
penninerved ; lateral nerves about 4 on each side, very oblique, 
inconspicuous or slightly raised; petiole 2-5 lin. long. Heads axillary, 
Solitary or geminate, 2-3-flowered ; peduncle 2 lin. long; sockets cupular, 
? lin. deep, glabrous ; bract cupular, subtruncate, 13-2} lin. long, solid 
basal part 2—4 lin. long, margin 1}-14 lin. long. Receptacle and calyx 
together tubular, inflated in the middle, 4-44 lin, long, glabrous outside. 
Calyx shortly 5-toothed, minutely and sparingly ciliate, 3-3} lin. long, 
split unilaterally by the expansion of the base of the corolla-tube. 
Corolla 2 in. long, basal swelling subglobose, 2-24 lin. in diam.; tube 
split unilaterally, papillate within ; lobes erect, linear below, lanceolate- 
linear above, 7-8 lin. long. Stamens inserted at or just below the base 
of the corolla-lobes, 4—5 lin. long including the tooth, flattened, slightly 
tapering upwards, inflexed, the upper 2 lin. much darker, tooth narrowly 
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