Viscum.) CXIX. LORANTHACEA (SPRAGUE), 403 
12, V. rotundifolium, Linn. f. Suppl. 426. A small much- 
branched shrub, glabrous or nearly glabrous in all its vegetative parts. 
Stem terete, 2-2} lin, in diam. 3-1 ft, below the apex of the branchlets ; 
older branches 8- or 12-ribbed, younger branches and branchlets 
hexagonal, the uppermost branchlets slightly compressed ; internodes 
2-18 lin. long. Leaves sessile or subsessile, broadly ovate (or more 
rarely suborbicular), acute or apiculate at the apex, rounded at the 
base, 24-6 lin, long, 14-4 lin. broad, thickly coriaceous, obscurely 
3-nerved, brown or blackish in a dried state, margin cartilaginous, 
Cymules axillary, solitary or fascicled, 3-flowered, usually composed of 
a central male and two lateral female flowers, more rarely of three 
female flowers; peduncle 4-14 lin. long, produced ;3,—} lin. or less 
beyond the bracteal cup. Bracteal cup distinctly lobed, 14-13 lin, 
long; lobes ascending, ovate or ovate-oblong, apiculate or subacute, 
$-i lin. long, glandular-ciliolate. Flowers monecious, tetramerous. 
Male flowers: Receptacle and pedicel together obconical, 3 lin. long ; 
pedicel about % lin. long; receptacular tube }-} lin. Jong. Petals 
marked off from the receptacle by a distinct groove on the outer 
surface, ovate or ovate-deltoid, slightly unequal, $-8 lin. long, 3-4 lin. 
broad, the two outer separated } lin. from each other at the apex. 
Anthers elliptic, 1-3 lin. long. Female flower: Receptacle and 
pedicel together 11-12 lin. long; pedicel 4-§ lin. long. Petals ovate 
vr ovate-oblong, acute, 4-3 lin. long. Stigma projecting }~ lin. above 
the insertion of the petals. Berry pedicelled, red, orange or yellow, 
ellipsoid, 23 lin. long; pedicel 3-1 lin. long—Thunb. Prodr. 31; 
Fl. Cap, ed. Schult. 154; DC. Prodr. iv. 279; Harv. in Harv. & Sond. 
Fl. Cap. ii. 580; Engl. in Eng). Jahrb, xx. 131; Schinz in Bull. 
Herb. Boiss. iv. App. iii. 55; Van Tiegh. in Bull, Soc. Bot. France, 
xliii. 190, 
Lower Guinea. (German South-west Africa; Hereroland; Okahandja, 
Dinter, 291! 
Also in South Africa, 
13. V. tricostatum, HZ. Meyer in Drege, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 94, 
229, name only.. A globose much-branched shrub, glabrous in all its 
vegetative parts. Stem terete, about 2} lin. in diam. 16 in. below the 
apex of the branchlets; older branches 8- or 12-ribbed, younger 
branches and branchlets hexagonal, the uppermost internodes slightly 
compressed ; internodes 4-16 lin. long. Leaves subsessile, spreading, 
ovate-oblong, elliptic-oblong or lanceolate-oblong, very acute or 
“piculate at the apex, obtuse or acute at the base, 4-7} lin. long, 
13-34 lin. broad, coriaceous, 3-nerved, green or brownish in a dried 
state, margin cartilaginous. Cymules axillary, solitary or fascicled, 
3-flowered, usually composed of a central male and two lateral female 
flowers, more rarely of three female flowers; peduncle }-8 lin. long, 
produced } lin. or less beyond the bracteal cup. Bracteal cup distinctly 
lobed, $-1} lin. long; lobes ascending, ovate or ovate-oblong, acute or 
subacute, $-§ lin. long, minutely glandular-ciliolate. Flowers mone- 
ous, tetramerous, Male flower: Receptacle and pedicel together 
