382 CXIX, LORANTHACEE (SPRAGUE). | Loranthus, 
191. L. musozensis, Rendle in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. xxxvii. 204. 
Young branchlets shortly tomentose ; branches greyish, inconspicuously 
lenticellate ; internodes 3-1} in. long. Leaves subopposite, broadly 
ovate, obtuse or rounded at the apex, rounded or subtruncate at the 
base, 13-3 in. long, 1}-2 in. broad, coriaceous, rather thick, coarsely 
pubescent with branched hairs on both surfaces, penninerved ; lateral 
nerves slightly raised on both surfaces; petiole 5-6 lin. long. Umbels 
axillary, solitary, about 16-flowered ; peduncle, pedicels and bract densely 
rusty-pubescent ; peduncle shortly clavate, 2-23 lin. long ; pedicels 13-2 
lin. long ; bract ovate from a flat or slightly saucer-shaped base, dorsal 
margin { lin. long, ventral margin 1} lin. long. Receptacle and calyx 
together shortly campanulate, 14 lin. long, rusty-tomentose. Calyx 
lin. long, shortly toothed; intramarginal ring 4 lin. high. Corolla 
12 in. long, villous-tomentose outside with shortly branched hairs; tube 
split unilaterally about 74 lin. down, basal swelling ellipsoid, 24 lin, 
long; lobes erect, subspathulate-linear, 44 lin. long, the upper part 
boat-shaped, 24 lin. long, 8 lin. broad, 3%, lin. deep, oblong-lanceolate 
seen from within, hard inner layer sharply demarcated below. Filaments 
inserted about the base of the corolla-lobes, deflexed, 2} lin. long, 
slightly tapering upwards, thickened in the uppermost 4 lin., tooth ¢ lin, 
long; anthers linear, 13-1% lin. long. Disc pentagonal, stout, } lin. high, 
hardly lobed. Style skittle-shaped above, thickened part about 2 lin. 
long, neck 13 lin. long ; stigma subglobose, } lin. in diam. 
Wile Land. Uganda: Musozi, on the bark-cloth fig, Bagshawe, 184! 
Very closely allied to L. heteromorphus, A. Rich. 
192. L. gabonensis, Lngl. in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 127, t. 3, jig. 2. 
Branchlets slender, glabrous, drying blackish, internodes 3-1} in. long. 
Leaves opposite, lanceolate, obtuse or rounded at the apex, obtuse at 
the base, 24-4 in. long, 1-14 in. broad, coriaceous, glossy¥ very finely 
wrinkled and dark brown in a dried state; lateral nerves indistinct; 
petiole 4—5 lin. long, narrowly winged. Umbels axillary, ternate, about 
6-flowered ; peduncle 2 lin. long; pedicels 3-3} lin. long ; bract ovate 
from a saucer-shaped base, acute or narrowly truncate, minutely ciliolate, 
dorsal margin 3 lin. long, strongly umbonate on the lower part, ventral 
margin patulous, } lin.long. Receptacle 3lin. long. Calyx ascending; 
truncate, ciliolate, } lin. Jong. Corolla over 12 in. long, truncate 1D 
bud ; tube about 11} lin. long, the lowermost 3 ‘lin. slightly swollen ; 
lobes 102 lin. long, subspathulate above, thickened and shoulder-shaped 
at the apex. Filaments inserted 1} Jin. above the base of the corolla- 
lobes, 8} lin. long, flattened, slightly tapering upwards, glabrous, tooth 
subulate, 3 lin. long; anthers oblong, 1 lin. long, about 4 lin. broad, 
emarginate at the apex. Disc annular, hardly lobed, } lin. high.— 
Stephaniseus gabonensis, Van Tiegh. in, Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xlii. 261. 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon: Munda District; Sibange Farm, Soyaux, 305! 
Tessmatn, 736, from the Bebar District, Spanish Guinea, probably belongs to 
L. gabonensis. It has larger, less coriaceous leaves than the type, and the lateral 
nerves are more distinct. 
