372 CXIX. LORANTHACE® (SPRAGUE). | Loranthus. 
intramarginal ring } lin. high. Corolla yellow, about 2% in. long, 
glabrous outside, apical swelling strongly 5-winged in bud; tube split 
unilaterally 6 lin. down, basal swelling oblong-ovoid, 3-34 lin. long; lobes ~ 
erect, subspathulate-linear seen from within, 4? lin. long, upper part 
ship-shaped, 24 lin. long, } lin. broad, 3 lin. deep, with a hard inner 
layer sharply demarcated below. Filaments red, inserted at the base 
of the corolla-lobes, deflexed, tapering upwards from a broad base, 24 lin. 
long, nearly } lin. broad at the base, tooth } lin. long; anthers brownish, 
linear, 14 lin. long. Disc shortly 5-lobed, 4 lin. high. Style skittle-shaped 
above, thickened part 24 lin. long, broadest below the middle, neck 13 lin. 
long, the lowest 3-4 lin. narrower than the remainder; stigma sub- 
globose, not distinctly lobed.—De Wild. & Th. Dur. Reliq. Dewevr, 201. 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Bangala District, Dewevre, 875! 
176. L. celtidifolius, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 128, t. 3, fig. D, 
not of Willd. Young branchlets and leaves very minutely and sparingly 
rusty-pilose, soon becoming glabrous. Branchlets lenticellate from 
young state, soon becoming very densely lenticellate, at first blackish, 
afterwards greyish, 14-12 lin. in diam. about 9 in. below the apex; 
internodes }-1? in. long. Leaves opposite or subopposite, ovate-oblong 
or (more rarely) ovate, obtuse or rounded at the apex, obtuse at the 
base, 14-23 in. long, 9-17 lin. broad, coriaceous, glabrous; lateral 
nerves 2-3 on each side, obliquely ascending, not distinctly anasto- 
mosing, raised on the upper surface, less so on tne lower; petiole 3-7 
lin. long. Umbels axillary, solitary or ternate, 9—13-flowered ; peduncle, 
pedicels and bract minutely rusty-pilose; peduncle stout, 14-2} lin. 
long; pedicels 13-2 lin. long; bract ovate-saucer-shaped, obtuse, 
strongly umbonate, ciliate, dorsal margin } lin. long, ventral margin 
é lin. long. Receptacle and calyx together suburceolate-cupular, 1 lin. 
long, minutely puberulous. Calyx ;1,—-} lin. long; intramarginal ring 
zz lin. high. Corolla 14-1} in. long, minutely puberulous outside, 
especially towards the base, apical swelling of the bud strongly 5-keeled, 
14 lin. long; tube split unilaterally 5-54 lin, down, basal swelling 
depressed-globose, 14-14 lin. long, 12 lin. in diam. ; lobes erect, spathu- 
late-linear, 34 lin. long, upper part boat-shaped, 13 lin. long, 3%, Ji2- 
broad, 4 lin. deep, linear-lanceolate seen from within, with a hard inner 
layer sharply demarcated below. Filaments inserted slightly above the 
base of the corolla-lobes, deflexed, tapering upwards, about 2 lin. long; 
tooth rounded, ;}, lin. long; anthers oblong-linear, 3 lin. long. Dise 
4 lin. high, conspicuously exceeding the calyx. Style skittle-shaped 
above, thickened part 2} lin. long, neck ? lin. long; stigma ellipsoid, 
% lin. long.—Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 167. 
Mozamb. Distr. (erman East Africa: Dar-es-Salaam, Hildebrandt, 1225! 
Kirk! Kuntze! 
L. celtidifolius, Willd., isa synonym of LZ. incanus, Schum. & Thonn. 
177. L. aurantiacus, Hngl. in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 124, not of A- 
Cunn. Branchlets dark and puberulous in a young state, grey ish 
when adult, about 14 lin. in diam. 6 in. below the apex, rather densely 
