398 CXIX. LORANTHACEA (SPRAGUE). | Visewm. 
pollination. Petals slightly patulous, oblong-ovate, about % lin. long, 
4 lin. broad. Stigma projecting } lin. above the insertion of the petals. 
Berry ellipsoid or ovoid, 2 lin. long, smooth, crowned by the persistent 
petals.— Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 198 ; Eng]. Jabrb. xx. 131; Pal. 
Ost-Afr. C. 167; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ix. App. ii. 152; Van 
Tiegh. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xliii. 190. V. murchisonianum, 
Schweinf. ex Baker in Journ. Bot. 1882, 245, in obs., name only. 
Wile Land. Eritrea: various localities, 5000-6500 ft., on Olea chrysophylla, 
Lam., and Loranthus Acacia, Zuce., Schweinfurth, 976, 1286, 1485, 1601 ; Schwein- 
Jfurth & Riva, 1225! Bogos, Steudner, 187. Abyssinia: Semen; Abbena, Steudner, 
181! Tiel Woba, Steudner, 182 ; on mountain slopes towards the Worrhey, 5000 ft., 
Schimper, 678! Schahagenni, Schimper, 211! British East Africa, Elliott, 351! 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Muoa, Holst, 3102! 
Also in Natal (Gerrard, 1651, Wood, 3864, 4145). 
Var, ungustifolium, Sprague. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, lanceolate or oblan- 
ceolate, narrowed to an apiculate acute or more rarely obtuse apex, cuneate into the 
base, 3-1} in. long, 3-9 lin. broad —V. minutiflorum, Engl. & Krause in Engl. 
Jahrb. xliii. 315, 
Wile Land. Eritrea: near Keren, Beccari, 62 ! 
Lower Guinea. Island of St. Thomas, Mann ! 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Songolo, between Irumu and Mawambi, 
Mildbraed, 3006! 
The above variety is founded on Beceari, 62, which Engler, Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. 
Afr. 198, has quoted under V’. nervosum. 
Mildbraed, 3006, the type of V. minutiflorum, does not seem to differ except in 
the slightly smaller and narrower leaves ; and Mann’s St. Thomas specimen, which 
at first sight appeared to represent an undescribed species, also seems referable to 
var. angustifolium. 
Var. nyanzense, Sprague. Leaves narrowly obovate-elliptic or rhomboid-ellipti¢; 
rounded or obtuse at the apex, cuneate into the base, 1-24 in. long, 7-12 lin. broad. 
Berry white —V. nyanzense, Rendle in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. xxxvii. 208, 
Nile Land. Uganda, Scott-Elliot, 7180! Buvuma Island, in Lake Victoria, 
Bagshawe, 654! Johnston ! 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Usambara; Derema, Scheffler, 111! 
V. nervosum is closely allied to V. triflorum, DC. Prodr. iv. 279, a native of 
Mauritius and Réunion, which may be distinguished by its globose berry. The leaves 
of V. triflorum have the main nerves raised, just asin V. nervosum, The Madagascar 
plant included as V. triflorum in Engler’s key to the African and Mascarene species 
of Viscum (Engl. Jahrb. xx. 131) is said to differ from V. nervosum in the nerves 
not being raised, and is probably a distinct species represented in the Kew herbarium 
by Baron, 3625 and 3880. 
5. V. decurrens, Baker & Sprague. Main stem terete, about 
2 lin. in diam. 9-15 in. below the apex of the branchlets; branches 
two-angled, more or less compressed; branchlets much compressed, 
with linear internodes, tapering slightly from apex to base ; internodes 
1-2} in. long. Leaves subsessile, narrowly obovate or obovate-oblong 
to oblanceolate, rounded at the apex, narrowly cuneate into the base, 
3-2 in. long, 4-10 lin. broad, coriaceous, glabrous, distinctly 3- oF 
5-nerved, finely reticulate, slightly glossy ; petiole up to 1 lin. long: 
