Loranthus. | CXIX. LORANTHACEE (SPRAGUE). 371 
into the neck, neck 14-13 lin. long; stigma depressed-globose, distinctly 
bilobed.— Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xl. 536, 
Mozamb. Distr. Portuguese East Africa: Lower Zambesi; Nhaondue, 
near Boruma, Menyharth, 939! 
174. L.nyasicus, Baker & Sprague. Branchlets subtended at the 
base by several reduced leaves, 14-6 in. long, much compressed, nodose, 
glabrous, finely striate and dark in a dried state; internodes 3-24 in. 
long. Branches fairly stout, 2-3 lin. in diam., dark brown, longitudinally 
wrinkled in a dried state, rather densely and inconspicuously lenticellate, 
lenticels elongating to form small longitudinal cracks. Leaves opposite 
or subopposite, narrowly elliptic-oblong or lanceolate, rounded or obtuse 
at the apex, rounded at the base (more rarely obtuse), 14-3} in. long, 
9-15 lin. broad, coriaceous, glabrous, faintly and finely reticulate, 
especially on the upper surface; lateral nerves about 3 on each side, 
very oblique, slightly raised on both surfaces ; petiole 1—5 lin. long. 
Umbels axillary, solitary, about 8-flowered, glabrous ; peduncle 34-4 lin. 
long; pedicels about 3 lin. long; bract unilaterally developed, broadly 
ovate or quadrangular from a disc-shaped or saucer-shaped base, truncate 
or subtruncate, umbonate, dorsal margin 3 lin. long, ventral margin 
Spreading or patulous, } lin. long. Receptacle and calyx together 
Suburceolate, about 1} lin. long. Calyx suberect, } lin. long, very 
shallowly lobed ; intramarginal ring } lin. high. Corolla about 13 in. 
long, glabrous outside ; tube split unilaterally 6-64 lin. down, basal 
Swelling ellipsoid, 24 lin. long; lobes erect, subspathulate-linear, acute, 
4} lin. long, upper part boat-shaped, linear-lanceolate seen from within, 
2% lin. long, $ lin. broad, strongly keeled outside, with a hard inner 
layer sharply demarcated at the base. Filaments inserted about the 
base of the corolla-lobes, deflexed, tapering upwards, 22 lin. long, tooth 
$ lin. long ; anthers linear, 13-14 lin. long, connective slightly exceed- 
ing the cells. Disc shortly lobed, 3 lin. high. Style slightly thickened 
into the base, skittle-shaped above, thickened part 24-3 lin. long, neck 
1} lin. long; stigma depressed-globose, not distinctly lobed. 
Mozamb. Distr. British Central Africa: Nyasaland, Buchanan, 1090! 
Namasi, Cameron, 8! 
175. L. polygonifolius, Zngl. in Comptes-rendus Soc. Bot. Belg, 
xxxix. 29. Branchlets slender, hardly 1 lin. in diam, 5 in. below the 
apex, dark, glabrous; internodes 5-15 lin. long, the upper compressed, 
ves opposite, lanceolate, slightly apiculate from an obtuse apex, 
rounded or obtuse at the base, 23-33 in. long, 10-15 lin. broad, 
chartaceous, glabrous, dark brown in a dried state, finely reticulate on 
th surfaces; lateral nerves 5-6 on each side, patulous, anastomosing far 
from the margin, slightly raised on both surfaces ; petiole 3-4} lin. long, 
Umbels axillary, solitary, 4—6-flowered, glabrous; peduncle stout, #-2 lin. 
long ; pedicels 2-24 lin. long; bract narrowly triangular from a saucer- 
Shaped base, dorsal margin 3-3 lin. long, umbonate or thickened, ven- 
tral margin } lin. long. Receptacle and calyx together campanulate, 
1§-1} lin. long. Calyx 5-lobed, } lin. long; lobes triangular, acute ; 
