402 OXIX. LORANTHACEE (SPRAGUE), [ Viscum, 
at first hexagonal, soon becoming 8-ribbed, 1-1} lin. in diam, 1 ft, below 
the apex; internodes $-3 in. long. Leaves lanceolate or elliptic-lanceo- 
late, more or less faleate, narrowed to an obtuse or subacute apex (more 
rarely rounded at the apex), cuneate into the base, 13-4 in, long, 3-13 
in. broad, coriaceous, glabrous, 3-nerved from the base, margin crispate 
in a dried state; nerves slightly but distinctly raised on the upper 
surface, less distinct on the lower; petiole 1-24 lin. long. Cymules 
axillary, solitary or ternate, peduncled, 3—5-flowered ; flowers dicecious, 
tetramerous. Male cymule not known. Female cymule: Peduncle 
13-2 lin, long, broadened at the base, produced 3-3 lin. beyond the 
bracteal cup. Bracteal cup at first boat-shaped, 14 lin. long, each half 
becoming depressed when the outermost flowers develop; bracts broadly 
ovate, obtuse, 4 lin. long, glandular-ciliolate ; pedicels about $ lin. long. 
Receptacle slightly broadened upwards, 1-1} lin. long. Calyx present 
as a mere rim, inside which the petals are inserted. Petals ovate-oblong, 
obtuse, 3-7 lin. long, 3-,7, lin. broad, thickened along the middle on the 
outer surface. Style compressed-tetragonal, } lin, long including the 
cs Berry pedicelled, ovoid, 3-34 lin. long, smooth ; pedicel j lin. 
ong. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Bipindi, Zenker, 925! 
11. V. Macowani, Higl. in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 131. A small 
globose much-branched shrub, rather scabrous in all its parts. Branches 
terete, stout, slightly wrinkled in a dried state, 14-2 lin. in diam. 5-6 
in. below the apex of the branchlets; branchlets subtetragonal, slightly 
compressed ; internodes 3-7 lin. long.’ Leaves sessile, oblong, obtuse, 
slightly apiculate or subacute at the apex, slightly narrowed into, the 
base, 34-5} lin. long, 13-3 lin. broad, thick, fleshy, densely papillate 
on both surfaces, margin rough with numerous minute hyaline papilla- 
like teeth ; nerves hardly visible. Cymules axillary, fascicled, 3-flowered, 
composed of a central male and two lateral female flowers ; transverse 
pair of scale-leaves in each axil triangular, subacuminate, $ lin. long, 
% lin. broad at the base; peduncle 3-4 lin. long, not produced beyond 
the bracteal cup. Bracteal cup deeply lobed, minutely papillate out- 
side ; lobes ascending, ovate-oblong, acute, 3 lin. long, glandular-ciliate. 
Flowers monecious, tetramerous. Male flower: Receptacle obconical, 
§ lin, long, hardly § lin. in diam. at the apex; tube } lin. long. Petals 
deltoid, 5"; lin, long, 3 lin. broad at the base, papillate, marked off from 
the receptacle by a distinct groove on the outer surface. Anthers of 
two sizes, the smaller suborbicular, hardly } lin. in diam., the larger 
elliptic-oblong, 4-3 lin, long, Female flower: Receptacle 3 lin. long 
including the pedicel. Petals ovate-oblong, }-3 lin. long, papillate- 
Stigma projecting 3 lin. above the insertion of the petals. Berry 
pedicelled, reddish, ellipsoid, 24 lin. long; pedicel about $ lin. long.— 
Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App, iii. 55. 
Lower Guinea, German South-west Africa: Great Namaqualand ; Ubib, on 
Acacia albida, Del., Giirich, 18 ; Rehoboth, Fleck, 119! 316a. 
The above description has been drawn up mainly from Fleck, 119. I have not 
seen the type specimen, 
