44 CXIX. LORANTHACE® (SPRAGUE). -  [Viscum. 
obconical, 3 lin. long; pedicel about % lin. long; receptacular tube 
about } lin. long. Petals marked off from the receptacle by a distinct 
groove on the outer surface, subequal, ovate, obtuse, about 4 lin. long, 
4 lin. broad. Anthers elliptic, }4 lin. long. Female flower: 
leceptacle and pedicel together about 1} lin. long; pedicel about 4 lin. 
long. Petals shortly ovate-oblong, obtuse or rounded, -3-;'; lin. long, 
3-3 lin. broad. Stigma projecting }-1 lin. above the insertion of the 
petals. Berry pedicelled, orange-red (Dinter), ellipsoid, 1$-2 lin. long ; 
pedicel 1 lin. long—Harv. in Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. ii. 580; Engl. 
in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 131; Van Tiegh. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, 
xliii. 190. 
Lower Guinea, German South-west Africa: Hereroland ; Okahandja, 4000 ft., 
on Zizyphus mucronata, Willd., Dinter, 287! 
Also in South Africa, where it is parasitic on Salix sp.¥ 
Closely allied to the preceding, from which it differs in the more slender elongated 
branches and the shape of the leaves. According to Harvey (l.c.) the pedicel of the 
berry is 2 lin. long. 
. 14. V. combreticola, Angl. in Engl. Jahrb. xl. 542 (V. com- 
breticolum). A much-branched shrub, 1-1} ft. high. Stem terete, 
34-4 lin. in diam, at the base, brown and slightly glossy in a dried 
state. Branches and branchlets conspicuously flattened, ribbed in @ 
dried state; internodes broadly linear, tape-like, broadest in their upper 
part, slightly contracted at the apex, slightly tapering into the base, 
3-23 in. long, 14-3} lin. broad, those of the main branches much 
thickened along the middle. Flowers diccious, tetramerous. Male 
inflorescences axillary, composed of 1-5 3-flowered cymules, each of 
which is borne by a bracteal cup. Bracteal cup subtended by a pair of 
bracts at] the base, sessile, boat-shaped, 1$ lin. long; lobes ascending, 
rounded or obtuse, 1 lin, long, glandular-ciliolate; pedicel (solid base of 
flower) hardly 4 lin. long. Receptacular tube # lin. long. Petals 
alternately deltoid and deltoid-ovate, ? lin. long,. about # lin. broad. 
Anthers trigonous with a convex outer surface, elliptic in outline, 
—11 lin. long, 37, lin. broad. Female inflorescences axillary, composed of 
1 or 3 flowers, each of which is borne by a bracteal cup. Bracteal cup 
conspicuously 2—lobed, 1 lin. high; lobes 3 lin. long, rounded, glandular- 
ciliolate, exceeding the receptacle at the time of expansion of the flower- 
Receptacle shortly and broadly obovoid, 3 lin. long. Petals triangular, 
over $ lin. long, 4,4 lin. broad, deciduous. Style broadly conical, § lin- 
long ; stigma projecting } lin. above the insertion of the petals. Berry 
ellipsoid, 2} lin. long, smooth or slightly warted.—V. dichotomum, Harv- 
in Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap, ii. 581, as to the Magaliesberg specimens, 
excluding synonyms; De Wild. Pl. Nov. Herb. Hort. Then. t. 8%, 
excluding synonyms; not of D. Don. 
Mozamb. Distr. Rhodesia: Batoka country, Kirk! Mazoe Distriet s Irom 
Mask Hill, at 5000 ft., Zyles, 456! 
Also in the Transvaal, 
Viscum dichotomum, Harv. (1.c.), included two distinct species, 7. anceps E. 
Meyer, aud F. combreticola, Engl. V. anceps may be distinguished from V~ 00"" 
