344 CXIX, LORANTHACE (SPRAGUE). | Loranthus. 
bract unilaterally developed from a saucer-shaped base, subtruncate, 
sparingly ciliate, 1} lin. long including the solid base, which is nearly 
+ lin, long, dorsal margin } lin. long, ventral margin 3-§ lin. long. 
Receptacle and calyx together narrowly campanulate, slightly constricted 
about the middle, nearly 2 lin. long. Calyx 14 lin. long, irregularly 
toothed, ciliate. Corolla about 1 in. long, purplish with a green band 
below the apex; tube split unilaterally, basal swelling it lin. long ; 
lobes erect, subspathulate-linear, 34 lin. long. Filaments inserted at 
the base of the corolla-lobes, 2 lin. long, tapering upwards from a broad 
base, linear about the middle, slightly thickened towards the apex, tooth 
4 lin. long; anthers narrowly oblong, % lin. long, } lin. broad. Dise 
very distinctly lobed, about} lin. high. Style skittle-shaped above, neck 
gradually broadened in the upper 3 lin. into the base of the stigma.— 
Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. Nachtr. i. 133. Odontella kilimand- 
scharica, Van Tiegh. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xlii. 260. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro; above Marangu, 
6500 ft., Volkens, 1557 ! 
128. L. Tanganyike, Lngl. in Engl. Jahrb. xl. 531. Branches 
stout, nearly 2 lin. in diam. 1 ft. below the apex, younger part slightly 
compressed, dark brown, older part terete, tawny, coarsely and densely 
lenticellate ; internodes 3-11 in. long. Leaves alternate, ovate-oblong 
or ovate, rounded at the apex, obtuse and unequal at the base, 14-2. 
long, {-13 in. broad, thinly coriaceous, glabrous ; lateral nerves 3—4 on 
each side, rather oblique, prominent on the upper surface, less distinct 
on the lower; petiole 14-3 lin. long. Heads axillary, sessile, several 
together, about 3-flowered; axis 1? lin. long, sockets very oblique; 
bract elongate-cupular, about 2 lin. long, slightly 2-lipped or not, 
thickened dorsally, thickening terminating in a horn about } lin. long; 
inserted 3-4 lin. below the apex, margin about 14 lin. long. Receptacle 
and calyx together tubular, 3 lin. long. Calyx slightly and irregularly 
toothed, 2-2} lin. long, ciliate. Corolla 13 in. long in bud; tube sub- 
cylindric in the lower half, with a very slight basal swelling, gradually 
broadened from the middle upwards ; lobes linear, 5} 1in. long. Filaments 
broadened from the base to the middle, linear in the upper half, 3 lin. 
long, tooth } lin. long; anthers linear, 1% lin. long. Dise distinctly 
lobed, ¢ lin. high. Style skittle-shaped above, thickened part about 
1} lin. long, neck about 1 lin. long, the upper § lin. broadened into the 
base of the stigma. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Urundi; Kiriba Pass, 7800 ft.» 
Scott-Elliot, 8342! 
129. L. coronatus, Lngl. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. Nachtr. 
1,133. Leaves sessile, amplexicaul, suborbicular, 34-4 in. long, 4-4} in- 
broad. Corolla (“ calyx” of Van Tieghem) red, mottled with white, over 
3 in. long, with a crown of 5 diverging appendages in bud.—Acroste- 
phanus coronatus, Van Tiegh. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xlii. 268. 
Lower Guinea. French Congo: valley of the Kuilu River; Niunvu, 
Lecomte. 
