376 CXIX. LORANTHACEX (SPRAGUE). { Loranthus. 
upper part shallowly boat-shaped, acute, 24 lin. long, +} lin. broad, hard 
inner layer sharply demarcated below. Filaments inserted at the 
base of the corolla-lobes, deflexed, 2}-2} lin. long, tapering upwards, 
thickened near the apex, with a narrow dark band about 4 lin. long 
$ lin. below the apex, tooth } lin. long; anthers linear, truncate, 1} lin. 
long, connective produced beyond the cells. Disc } lin. high. Style 
skittle-shaped above, thickened part 24-23 lin. long, neck 13-1} lin. 
long ; stigma ovoid, 3 lin. long.—Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 167. 
Wile Land. Jur: Great Seriba Ghattas, on Ficus platyphylla, Delile, 
Schweinfurth, 1381! 14254! 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Bukumbi, on Lake Victoria, Stuhl- 
mann, 820! 
182. L. Keilii, Engl. & Krause in Engl. Jahrb. xiii. 409. Young 
branchlets dark, at first shortly rusty-pilose, soon becoming incon- 
spicuously puberulous, about 1} lin.in diam. 6 in. below the apex, nodose ; 
branches rather stout, 24-23 lin. in diam., pallid, glabrous, densely 
lenticellate, lenticels rusty-brown ; internodes 4-13 lin. long. Leaves 
alternate, mostly lanceolate (more rarely linear-lanceolate or elliptic- 
oblong), straight or subfalcate, obtuse or rounded at the apex, cuneate or 
subcuneate into the base, 14—3 in. long, 7-12 lin. broad, rigidly coriaceous, 
glabrous; lateral nerves 2-4 on each side, very oblique, raised on both 
surfaces; petiole 3-4 lin. long, shortly rusty-pilose. Umbels axillary, 
solitary, 9-12-flowered ; peduncle, pedicels and bract shortly rusty-pilose ; 
peduncle about 33 lin. long; pedicels 2} lin. long; bract ovate or elliptic 
from a saucer-shaped base, dorsal margin } lin. long, ventral margin 
patulous, hardly } lin. long. Receptacle and calyx together cupular, 
13-1} lin. long, slightly constricted below the apex, very minutely 
papillate outside. Calyx shallowly lobed, about } lin. long, ciliolate; 
intramarginal ring } lin. high. Corolla reddish-brown and yellow 
(Engler), about 12 in. long, puberulous outside, apical swelling oblong, 
23 lin. long; tube split unilaterally about 8 lin. down, basal swelling 
ellipsoid, 24 lin. long; lobes erect, lanceolate-linear, acute, 5 lin. lone 
upper part shallowly boat-shaped, 24 lin. long, 4-3 lin. broad, har 
inner layer sharply demarcated below. Filaments inserted at the base 
of the corolla-lobes, about 23 lin. long, darker and slightly thickened 
towards the apex, tooth 4 lin. long; anthers oblong-linear, 14 lin. long. 
Dise pentagonal, shortly 5-lobed, } lin. high. Style skittle-shaped above, 
thickened part 3-3} lin. long, neck nearly 14 lin. long; stigma ellipsoid; 
4 lin. long. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Usumbura; near Kamata, 2500 ft» 
Keil, 212! 
183. La. Carsonii, Baker & Sprague. Branches elongated, about 
24 ft. long, 13 lin. in diam. 1 ft. below the apex, hardly 2 lin. in diam. 
2 ft. below the apex, younger parts and branchlets densely rusty- 
pubescent, older parts glabrescent, brownish, inconspicuously lenticellate}; 
internodes 3-2} in. long. Leaves opposite or subopposite, linear-lanceo- 
late, obtuse at the apex, attenuate into the base, 1}~3} in. long, 23- 
