390 CXIX. LORANTHACEZ (SPRAGUE). | Loranthus. 
Central Africa: Nyasaland; near Mount Masisi, 4000 ft., Me Clounie, 127 ! (peduncle 
and pedicels stouter than in the type). 
208. L. inzquilaterus, Hngl. in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 384. Young 
branchlets rusty-pilose, patulous. Branches tawny, rather densely lenti- 
cellate, about 14 lin. in diam. 1 ft. below the apex ; internodes 1}-2} in. 
long. Leaves ovate to lanceolate, caudate-acuminate to the acute or 
obtuse apex, obtuse or cuneate and more or less unequal at the base, 
13-6 in. long, 1-1? in. broad, chartaceous or thinly coriaceous, glabrous ; 
lateral nerves 4-6 on each side, slightly raised on both surfaces, patulous 
or rather oblique, anastomosing far from the margin ; petiole 2-3 lin. 
long. Umbels solitary, several- or many-flowered ; peduncle 3-1 lin. 
long; pedicels 3-4 lin. long; braet obliquely cupular, % lin. long. 
Receptacle § lin. long. Calyx ascending, % lin. long, irregularly lobed. 
Corolla about 1} in. long, dirty red; tube 4-53 lin. long, inflated, 
glandular within, split unilaterally below the middle ; lobes reffexed, 
spathulate-linear, subacute, broadened into the base, 9-10 lin. long. 
Filaments inserted 14 lin, above the base of the corolla-lobes, 64 lin. long, 
tapering upwards, tooth 3 lin. long; anthers linear, 13-14 lin. long; 
connective produced beyond the cells, rounded. Disc § lin. high, lobes 
about as long as the tube. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Mrogoro District; Uluguru Moun- 
tains, Rubwe, 3600 ft., Stuhlmann, 9043! Kibungo, 4600 ft., Stuhlmann, 8909:! 
Nghweme, 5300 ft., Stuhdmann, 8815! Kifuru, 5000 ft., Stuhlmann, 9070! 9074! 
British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; between Kondowe and Karonga, Whyte! 
209. Lk. Swynnertonii, Sprague. Branchlets glabrous from ap 
early stage, brown, longitudinally wrinkled in a dried state, about 1} lin. 
in diam. 6 in. below the apex; branches greyish-brown, lenticellate, the 
lenticels extending to form small transverse cracks ; internodes of the 
branchlets 3-1} in. long. Leaves opposite, ovate, acuminate to the 
acute apex, obtuse or rounded at the base, 21-3} in. long, 1-1} _ 
broad, coriaceous, glabrous, dull; margin of young leaves slightly 
crinkled in a dried state ; nerves slightly raised on both surfaces ; latera 
nerves 4-6 on each side, oblique or patulous; petiole 3-4 lin. long: 
Umbels axillary, solitary, 8-13-flowered; peduncle 14-5 lin. long; 
pedicels 3-4 lin. long; bract shortly ovate or oblong from a saucer 
shaped base, rounded or emarginate, ciliolate, broadly umbonate, dorsal 
margin # lin. long, ventral margin hardly } lin. long. Receptacle 3 lin- 
long. Calyx ascending, § lin. long, slightly lobed, sparingly ci 
Corolla 10 lin. long ; tube slightly constricted above an oblong-ellips 
basal portion which is 2-2} lin. long, split unilaterally above ;, lobes 
slightly reflexed, 53 lin. long, tapering from the base to the middle, slightly 
enlarged in a spathulate manner above the middle, § lin. broad at the base, 
3-§ lin. broad in the upper part, commonly cohering above in palTs- 
Stamens inserted about } lin. above the base of the corolla-lobes ; adnate 
part of the filament very densely glandular for the lower two-thirds, free 
part tapering upwards, 24-3 lin. long to the insertion of the tooth, oe 
duced { lin. above it, tooth narrowly triangular, acute, 4-3 lin. long; 
