Loranthus.| CXIX. LORANTHACEX (SPRAGUE). 381 
margin spreading or ascending, i lin. long. Receptacle and calyx 
together cupular, 13-1? lin. long, rusty-tomentellous. Calyx 3-3 lin. 
long, lobed ; intramarginal ring }-} lin. high. Corolla yellow, about 
1} in. long, villous-tomentose outside ; tube split unilaterally 6-64 lin. 
down, basal swelling oblong-ovoid, 24—3 lin. long ; lobes erect, spathulate- 
linear, subacute, 4? lin. long 2 lin. broad, the upper part with a hard 
inner layer sharply demarcated below. Filaments inserted at the base 
of the corolla-lobes, deflexed, 24 lin. long, tapering upwards, thickened 
in the uppermost 2 lin., tooth + lin. long; anthers oblong-linear, 14 lin. 
long. Disc } lin. high, 5-lobed nearly to the middle. Style skittle- 
shaped above, thickened part 23-3 lin. long, neck 1} lin. long; stigma 
ellipsoid, nearly } lin. long, with a minute apical depression. 
Upper Guinea. Togo: near Tamberma, 1000 ft., Kersting, A 502! 
Northern Nigeria: Yola District, on Anogeissus leiocarpa, Guill. & Perr., Daiziel, 
214! 
Very near LZ. heteromorphus, A. Rich., with which it may have to be united 
when further material comes to hand. 
190. L. heteromorphus, 4. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. i. 340. Branch- 
lets short, spreading or patulous, fulvous- or rusty-tomentose in a young 
state, afterwards pubescent; branches stout, 2-2$ lin. in diam. 6 in. 
below the apex, at first pubescent, soon becoming glabrous, longitudinally 
wrinkled and cracked ina dried state ; internodes }-24 in. long. Leaves 
opposite, ovate, ovate-oblong, elliptic-oblong or lanceolate, acute, obtuse 
or rounded at the apex, obtuse at the base, 13-54 in. long, 8-17 lin. 
broad, coriaceous, tomentose or tomentellous in a young state, when 
adult coarsely pubescent or finally glabrescent; lateral nerves 4—5 on 
each side, raised on the upper surface, less so on the lower; petiole 
3-9 lin. long. Umbels axillary, solitary, 2-9-flowered ; peduncle, pedicels 
and bract rusty-tomentellous ; peduncle 1-3 lin. long ; pedicels 14-14 lin. 
long; bract erect, narrowly ovate from a saucer-shaped base, concave, 
1-1} lin. long, ventral margin 1-4 lin. long. Receptacle and calyx 
together cupular, slightly constricted below the apex, 14-13 lin. long, 
rusty-pubescent. Calyx 4-4 lin. long, 5-toothed, ciliate, teeth triangular ; 
intramarginal ring 54-4 lin. high. Corolla 13-2 in. long, villous- 
tomentose outside with red multicellular little-branched hairs; tube 
split unilaterally about 5 lin. down, basal swelling ellipsoid or oblong- 
ellipsoid, 3-34 lin. long; lobes erect, spathulate-linear, 5-54 lin. long, 
the upper part with a hard inner layer sharply demarcated below. 
Filaments inserted at the base of the corolla-lobes, deflexed, 3 lin. long, 
tapering upwards, tooth $-} lin. long ; anthers linear, 13-13 lin. long. 
Dise pentagonal, }-} lin. high, slightly 5-lobed. Style skittle-shaped 
above, thickened part 34-4 lin. long, neck 14-1} lin. long; stigma 
depressed-globose, 3-4 lin. in diam.—Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 109; 
Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxxix. 616. L. regularis, Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. 
ISS. IV. App. ii. 148, partly. 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Adi-Qomoschio, in East Dembelas, 6000 ft., Schwein- 
Surth, 182! near Keren, Beccari, 51! Abyssinia: Tigre; Adowa, Schimper, 747 ; 
Semen; Jaja, Schimper, 406; Begemeder; valley of the River Reb, Steudner ! 
Tacazze River, Petit, 341! 
