360 CXIX, LORANTHACEX (SPRAGUE). [ Loranthus. 
long, dorsal margin ascending, }?—1 lin. long, ventral margin suberect, 
3 lin. long.- Receptacle and calyx together campanulate, wide-mouthed, 
1} lin. long. Calyx saucer-shaped, villous-ciliate, margin 4 lin. long. 
Corolla about 14 in. long in bud, villous outside, apical swelling oblong- 
ellipsoid, 2 lin. long, subterete, rounded; tube split unilaterally about 
6 lin. down, basal swelling subglobose, 12 lin. long, 14 lin. in diam. ; 
lobes reflexed, spathulate, acute, 34 lin. long, enlarged upper part 
2+ lin. long, ? lin. broad. Filaments inserted 3 lin. below the base of the 
corolla-lobes, deflexed, tapering upwards, 2 lin. long, tooth + lin. long ; 
anthers oblong, 14 lin. long. Disc pentagonal, } lin. high, minutely 
pilose. Style skittle-shaped above, thickened part 2? lin. long, broadest 
below the middle, neck lin. long; stigma ellipsoid, 2 lin. long. 
Mozamb. Distr. North-west Rhodesia, at 4000 ft., Rogers, 8353 ! 
Apparently allied to Z. glaucophyllus, Engl., from which it differs in the 
villous corolla. 
157. L. Mechowii, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 118, as to Mechow, 
43,101. Branchlets densely rusty-pilose in a young state, 2 lin. in 
diam. 1 ft. below the apex; branches 2}~44 lin. in diam., glabrous, very 
finely lenticellate ; internodes 1-24 in. long. Leaves opposite, sessile or 
subsessile, ovate-oblong or elliptic, shortly acuminate to a subacute or 
apiculate apex, more rarely rounded, rounded or subcordate at the base, 
2}-4 in. long, 14-24 in. broad, coriaceous, glabrous, or puberulous on 
the nerves only, dull; lateral nerves about 4 on each side, arcuate- 
ascending, anastomosing far from the margin, slightly raised on the 
upper surface, prominent on the lower; petiole not exceeding ? lin. in 
length. Umbels axillary, fascicled, head-like, 4-flowered, minutely puberu- 
lous; peduncle 14-13 lin. long; pedicels inserted in cupular sockets, 
about } lin. long; bract obliquely cupular, ciliate, umbonate at the base, 
dorsal margin 3 lin. long, ventral margin } lin. long. Receptacle and 
calyx together campanulate, 12 lin. long. Calyx subtruncate, irregu- 
larly split, 7-1 lin. long, ciliate, minutely puberulous outside. Corolla 
scarlet or purple, about 14 in. long in bud, shortly pilose outside, apical 
swelling oblong-ellipsoid, 13 lin. long, rounded, pentagonal ; tube split 
unilaterally 7-74 lin. down, basal swelling obovoid or subglobose, 1} lin- 
long ; lobes reflexed, spathulate, acute, 34 lin. long, enlarged upper p# 
1} lin. long, 3-3 lin. broad. Filaments inserted } lin. below the base 
of the corolla-lobes, inflexed, tapering upwards, 2 lin. long, tooth 
lin. long; anthers oblong, 3-1 lin. long. Disc 3-4 lin. high. Style 
skittle-shaped above, thickened part 24 lin. long, neck about } lin- 
long, thicker in the upper half; stigma ellipsoid, 3-4 lin. long.—Z. 
Belvisii, Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl, Welw. i. 934, excl. syn., not of DC. 
Tapinanthus Mechowti, Van Tiegh. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xlii. 267. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo, Mechow, 43! 101! Golung® 
Alto; among the Queta Mountains, on Ficus Mucuso, Welw., Welwitsch, 5279! 
between Sange and Bango, Welwitsch, 5280! 
158. L. glaucophyllus, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb, xxxii. 129. Branch- 
lets slender, greyish or tawny, finely lenticellate, about 1 Jin. in diam. 
