374 CXIX. LORANTHACEZ (SPRAGUE). | Loranthus, 
down, basal swelling subglobose, 5-grooved, 14 lin. in diam. ; lobes 
erect, subspathulate-linear, acute, 24-3 lin. Jong, upper part  boat- 
shaped, 1? lin. long, $ lin. broad, 4 lin. deep, hard inner layer sharply 
demarcated below. Filaments deflexed, tapering upwards from a much- 
thickened base, over 2} lin. long, tooth % lin. long; anthers linear- 
oblong, truncate, just over 1 lin. long. Dise pentagonal, } lin. high. 
Style skittle-shaped above, thickened part 2 lin. long, broadest below 
the middle, neck 14 lin. long; stigma subglobose, 4-2 lin. in diam. 
Mozamb. Distr. Rhodesia: Matabeleland; near Buluwayo waterworks, Hon. 
Mrs. Evelyn Cecil, 96! 
Var. Buchananii, Sprague. Leaves suborbicular or very broadly ovate, 13-2 in. 
long, 13-1? in. broad. Umbels many-flowered. Corolla-lobes hardly keeled. 
Mozamb. Distr. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Blantyre, very 
common, Buchanan, 133! 
Var, Buchananii might equally well be regarded as the type of a distinct species. 
Having regard to the scanty material, however, it has seemed best to treat it asa 
variety of L. Cecile. 
L. aurantiacus, var. parviflorus, Engl. ex Schinz, Pl. Menyharth. 42, name only, 
was based on a specimen gathered by Menyharth (938) near Boroma on the Lower 
Zambesi. It is possibly identical with ZL. Cecile, var. Buchananii, but the material 
extant is insufficient for determination. 
179. Li. dichrous, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 123. Young branchlets 
densely rusty-pilose with short curly hairs; branches slender, about 
1 lin. in diam. 1 ft. below the apex, pallid, glabrous, nodose, densely 
lenticellate ; internodes 3-2 in. long. Leaves subopposite or alternate, 
lanceolate or elliptic-oblong, obtuse or rounded at the apex, cuneate into 
the base, 14-23 in. long, 7-12 lin. broad, chartaceous, minutely rusty- 
pilose, especially on the lower surface, or glabrescent ; lateral nerves 
3-4 on each side, obliquely ascending, anastomosing far from the 
margin, rather prominent on the upper surface, inconspicuous on the 
lower; petiole 2-4 lin. long. Umbels axillary, solitary, geminate or 
ternate, 6—10-flowered ; peduncle, pedicels and bract shortly rusty- 
pilose ; peduncle 1-13 lin. long ; pedicels 3 lin. long; bract narrowly ovate 
from a saucer-shaped base, dorsal margin § lin. long, ventral margin 
4-} lin. long. Receptacle and ealyx together campanulate, 1 lin. ee 
densely rusty-pubescent outside. Calyx ascending, } lin. long, slightly 
lobed ; intramarginal ring very small. Corolla orange, except the upper 
part of the lobes, which is purplish-red (Zenker), about 1 1m. loot 
shortly and densely rusty-pilose outside, apical swelling of the ie 
ovoid-oblong, acute, pentagonal, 1$ lin. long; tube split unilateral y; 
basal swelling ellipsoid, 13 lin. long; lobes erect, lanceolate-lineat 
slightly contracted in the middle, acute, about 34 lin. Jong, upper P® 
shallowly boat-shaped, 12 lin. long, 3 lin. broad, oblong-lanceolate she 
from within, hard inner layer sharply demarcated below. Filamen's 
tapering upwards, 2 lin. long, tooth oblong, very obtuse, } lin. longs 
anthers oblong-linear, ? lin.long. Dise } lin. high, not distinctly lobed. 
Style skittle-shaped above, thickened part 22 lin. long, neck 3 lin. long: 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Yaunde, Zenker, 363! 
