396 OXIX, LORANTHACEE (SPRAGUE). | Viseum. 
cups should prove to be constant, it will serve as an additional character by which 
to distinguish the species from V. tuberculatum. 
In V, tuberculatum each bracteal cup contains either a solitary female flower or 
three flowers of which the central is male and the two lateral female. 
2. V. tuberculatum, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. i. 338. Stem terete 
or subterete, 24-3 lin. in diam. 1 ft. below the apex of the branchlets, 
nearly smooth or more or less ribbed in a dried state, greenish-yellow, 
tawny or brownish, glabrous, internodes up to 2 in. long; younger 
branches and branchlets distinctly ribbed ; internodes of the branchlets 
5-15 lin. long, the uppermost two or three distinctly compressed, strongly 
6—-8-ribbed, with 1 rib on each edge and 2-3 on each face. Leaves 
obovate or elliptic, more rarely suborbicular, rounded at the apex, rather 
abruptly contracted into a cuneate or subcuneate base, 6-18 lin. long, 
34-114 lin. broad, entire or minutely crenulate especially in a young 
state, coriaceous, glabrous, 3- or 5-nerved from the base, nerves raised 
on the upper surface, less so on the lower; petiole }—1 lin. long. Inflor- 
escences axillary, sessile, fascicled or solitary. Flowers moneecious, 
tetramerous, each bracteal cup containing either a single female flower 
or three flowers of which the central is male and the two lateral female. 
Bisexual inflorescence: Bracteal cup boat-shaped, 1}~-1$ lin. long, 4-8 
lin. high, margin horizontal or nearly so, ciliate from within. Male 
flower obovoid in bud, 1} lin. long. Petals ovate, 3 lin. long. Female 
inflorescence : Bracteal cup 3-3 lin. high including the lobes, $ lin. high 
in the middle, lobes semicircular, ciliate from within. Female flower 
13-13 lin. long. Receptacle 3-3 lin. long. Petals yellow, ovate-oblong, 
3—-} lin. long. Style 4-} lin. long. Berry orange or red, ellipsoid, 
24-24 lin. long, more or less warted, especially in a young state; sub- 
tending bracteal cup hardly 1 lin. high, very shallowly lobed, lobes 
rounded,—Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc, xxix. 81, t. 45; Engl. in Engl. 
Jahrb. xx. 131; Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 198; Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 167; 
Schweinf, in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. ii. 152; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. 
Welw. i. 935; Rendle in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. xxxvii. 208 ; Van Tiegh. 
in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xliii. 190. V. Stwhlmanni, Engl. in Engl. 
Jahrb. xx. 132; Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 167. V. tarchonanthum, Welw. ex 
Van Tiegh. in Bull. Soe. Bot. France, xliii, 190, name only. y, 
Camporum, Engl. & Krause in Engl. Jahrb. xlili. 315. 
Wile Land. Eritrea: various localities, 5000-6500 ft., Schweinfurth F Riva, 
1058! Schweinfurth, 976, 1225, 1286, 1485, 1601. Abyssinia: Bellaka and Aman- 
Eski, 7000 ft., Schimper, 471; Addi Dschoa, at the foot of Semayata Mountain, 
8000 ft., Schimper, 468; Shoa, Petit; and without precise locality, Plowden / 
Uganda: near Mulema, Bagshawe, 332! 342; Kidung Ndogo, 6000-7000 ft., Scott- 
Elliot, 6401! Toro; near the mouth of the Mpanga River, 3500 ft., Bagshawe, 1154! 
Eastern Ankole, 4500 ft., Dawe, 381! Equatorial East Africa, Gregory f 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; in elevated parts of the Chella Mountains, 
near Mumpulla, on Tarchonanthus camphoratus, Linn., Welwitsch, 4868! in the 
Catumba forests, Welwitsch, 4869 ! 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Karagwe; by the Kagera River, 
Bagshawe, 178! Bukoba; Itara, Mildbraed, 159! Usui, 4500 ft., Speke § Grant, 
143 ! Uzinja; Kimoani Plateau, 4600 ft., Stuhlmann, 1410! 
