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362 CXIX. LORANTHACEE (SPRAGUE). | Loranthus. 
unilaterally 7-8 lin. down, basal swelling usually ellipsoid, 2}-2 lin. 
long, 13-2 lin. in diam.; lobes reflexed, narrowly spathulate, 3-43 lin. 
long. Filaments inserted 4-3 lin. below the base of the corolla-lobes, 
inflexed, 241-23 lin. long, tooth 1-1 lin. long; anthers narrowly oblong 
or linear-oblong, truncate or very slightly emarginate, 14-1} lin. long. 
Dise 1-1 lin. high. Style skittle-shaped above, thickened part 23-34 
lin. long, neck 1-11 lin. long; stigma depressed-globose or obovoid, 
lin. long, } lin. in diam.—Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. iii. 543 
N. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1909, 1835; De Wild. Pl. Nov. Herb. Hort. 
Then. t.78. ZL. namaquensis, var. ligustrifolius, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. 
xx. 120. ZL. Meyeri, Presl, Bot. Bemerk. 76, name only; Engl. & Gilg 
in Warb. Kunene-Samb. Exped. 228; var. ligustrifolius. Hiern in Cat. 
Afr, Pl, Welw. i. 932; var. inachabensis, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xl. 539. 
L. oleefolius, E. Meyer ex Harv. in Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. ii. 577, not 
of Cham. & Schlecht. Z.bumbensis, Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 933. 
Tapinanthus namaquensis, Van Tiegh, in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xiii. 267. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Benguella; between Benguella and the Catumbella 
River, on Acacia etbaica, Schweint., Welwitsch, 4882! Mossamedes; in sandy 
places by the Bero River, on Gossypium or an allied genus, Welwitsch, 4858! near 
Cavalheiros, on Cordia sp., Welwitsch, 4859; by the banks of the Maiombo River, 
on Mimosa spp., &c., Welwitsch, 4860! on Ximenia americana, Linn., Welwitsch, 
4861! on Zamariz orientalis, Forsk., Welwitsch, 4855! on the mountainous parts 
of Cazimba not far from the Maiombo River, ou Mimosa spp. Welwitsch, 48765 
near Pedra de Sal, on Olacinea, Welwitsch, 4856! Bumbo; near Bumbo, on 
Acacia spp., Welwitsch, 4864! by the Coroca River, above Garganto do Diabo, 
1000 ft., on Acacia detinens, Burch., Baum, 10! by the Kubango River, on Salix 
subserrata, Willd., Gossweiler, 1983! German South-west. Africa: Amboland ; 
Oshiheke, Schinz, 286! Omulonga, Schinz, 285! Omupanda, Wulfhorst ! Onkumbe, 
Schinz, 290! Hereroland; Garubib, on Tamarix sp., Schenck, 427! Liideritz ! 
Nels! Pot Mine, Fleck, 71! 434! Kuisib Valley, Fleck, 682! Haikamchab, 0 
Acacia Giraffe, Willd., A. albida, Delile, Tamarix, Euclea, Nicotiana, &c., Galpin 
& Pearson, 7461! 7604! Windhoek, Dinter, 881! 
Mozamb. Distr. Rhodesia: Victoria Falls, 3000 ft., on Salix sp., Rogers 
5391! 7225! Bechuanaland: Keria, on Pluchea sp., Lugard, 1! Ngamiland : 
Kwebe Hills, on Acacia spp., Mrs. Lugard, 228! Kobis to North Shaw Valley, 
Baines! Chansis, Fleck, 3634! 
Also in S. Africa. LZ. namaquensis, as here understood, embraces 4 great 
variety of forms, some of which have been considered as distinct species or varieties 
by previous authors. ZL. Meyeri, var. inachabensis, Engler, is merely a narrow- 
leaved form of namaquensis ; and var. ligustrifolius, Engl., is connected with the 
type by small-leaved forms from Bechuanaland and Ngamiland. Z. bumbensts 
Hiern, which at first sight seems distinct, is hardly separable from the large-leaved 
form of namaquensis collected by Rogers in Rhodesia. Any successful attempt at 
segregation would have to be based on a study of the living plants. 
160. L. quinquangulus, Engl. & Schinz ex Schinz, Pl. Menyharth. 
43. Young branchlets minutely pubescent or puberulous, older ones 
glabrous, pallid, rather densely lenticellate, lenticels rather inconspicuous ; 
internodes 3-14 in. long. Leaves opposite, ovate or elliptic, rounded at 
the apex, obtuse or rounded at the base, 14-2 in. long, }-1} in. proad, 
ecriaceous, glabrous; lateral nerves 2-4 on each side, rather oblique, 
