Loranthus. | CXIX. LORANTHACE (SPRAGUE). 359 
apical swelling ellipsoid, terete, 2 lin. long, 14 lin. in diam. ; tube split 
unilaterally 63-7 lin. down, basal swelling ellipsoid, 2-3 lin. long ; lobes 
reflexed, linear-spathulate or narrowly spathulate, 34-4 lin. long. Fila- 
ments inserted just below the base of the corolla-lobes, inflexed, 1}-2 
lin. long, tooth } lin. long ; anthers narrowly oblong, slightly emarginate, 
1j lin. long. Style skittle-shaped above, thickened part 23-3 lin. long, 
neck 14-1} lin. long; stigma ellipsoid, 4-8 lin. long, papille not decur- 
rent.—Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 934; Schinz in Bull. Herb. 
Boiss. iv. App. iii. 54, 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Bumbo; between Bruco and Chao da Choella, 
Welwitsch, 4877! Huilla; near the Monino, on Eugenia sp. and Sapotacex, 
Welwitsch, 4888! Mossamedes ; Onkumbi, Schinz, 292! 
155. La. malacophyllus, Lngl. d: Krause in Engl. Jahrb, siiii. 408. 
Branchlets minutely pilose, 2-24 lin. in diam. 1 ft. below the apex; 
internodes 1-4 in. long. Leaves opposite, sessile, ovate or ovate-oblong, 
obtuse at the apex, cordate, rounded or obtuse at the base, 34-5} in. 
long, 14-34 in. broad, thinly coriaceous, minutely pilose on both sur- 
faces ; lateral nerves arcuate-ascending, 3—4 on each side, raised on both 
surfaces; veins of the older leaves raised on both surfaces. Umbels 
axillary, fascicled, 4-flowered ; peduncle 14-1} lin. long; pedicels 2 lin. 
long; bract cupular with a small broadly ovate dorsal lobe, minutely 
pubescent outside, dorsal margin }$—? lin. long, ventral margin 3 lin. 
long. Receptacle and calyx together campanulate, 14-13 lin. long, 
minutely pubescent outside. Calyx subtruncate or slightly lobed, }-3 
lin. long, finally spreading and irregularly split. Corolla 13-13 in. long 
or more, minutely pubescent outside; tube split unilaterally 7-9 lin. 
down, basal swelling suborbicular or ovoid, 2-3 lin. long ; lobes reflexed, 
linear-spathulate or narrowly spathulate, 34-4 lin. long. Filaments 
inflexed, 2} lin. long, tooth } lin. long; anthers linear-oblong, 1} lin. 
long. Disc }lin. high. Style skittle-shaped above, thickened part 23-3 
lin. long, neck 1 lin. long; stigma ovoid or ellipsoid, 3-3 lin. long.— 
L. Mechowii, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 118, as to Welwitsch, 4843; 
Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 934. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Loanda; near Boa Vista, on Adansonia digitata, 
Linn., Wel witsch, 4843! Gossweiler, 1501! M uceques, near Loanda, on Adansonia 
digitata, Linn., Gossweiler, 18! and without precise locality, Gossweiler, 202! 
156. L. erianthus, Sprague. Branchlets velvety-pubescent in a 
young state, 1}-14 lin. in diam. 8-10 in. below the apex; branches 
dark, inconspicuously lenticellate, glabrous ; internodes 3-1} in. long. 
aves Opposite or subopposite, subsessile, broadly ovate, rounded at the 
apex, slightly cordate at the base, 14-12 in. long, 9-13 lin. broad, coria- 
ceous, glabrous, subglaucous, margin slightly crispate; lateral nerves 
3-4 on each side, arcuate-ascending, anastomosing far from the margin, 
raised on both surfaces ; petiole up to } lin. long, pilose. Heads axillary, 
Solitary or fascicled, 4-flowered ; peduncle villous, ?-1 lin. long includ- 
ing the central column which separates the saucer-shaped sockets of the 
flowers ; bract obliquely cupular, densely villous outside, solid base } lin. 
