Viscum. | CXIX, LORANTHACES (SPRAGUE). 407 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Unyika ; near Manyames Dorf, 5000 ft., 
Goetze, 1441! British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Mount Malosa, 4000-6000 ft., 
Whyte! near Mambane, 4000 ft., Kirk! Portuguese East Africa: Gazaland ; 
Mossurize District, Mafusi, 3500 ft., Johnson, 166! Mount Maruma, 3500 ft., on 
Albizzia, &e., Swynnerton, 1085! 
V. anceps, E. Meyer, bears a strong resemblance to V. shirense, from which it 
may be distinguished by the shorter internodes, distinctly contracted at the apex, and 
the warted berries, each of which is borne by a bracteal cup. 
18. V. Schimperi, Lngl. in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 132. Asmall much- 
branched shrub, yellowish-green in a dried state. Stem subterete. 
Branches and branchlets stout, more or less compressed, ribbed in a 
dried state; internodes oblong or oblong-linear, slightly tapering to the 
base, 2-9 lin. long, 3-12 lin. broad, the uppermost ones conspicuously 
compressed. Flowers dicecious, tetramerous. Male plant unknown. 
Female plant: Flowers solitary or 3 together, or 2, one of each side of 
an axillary branch, either with or without a bracteal cup. Bracteal cup 
two-lobed, much shorter than the receptacle at the time of expansion 
of the flower, 7 lin. high ; lobes ascending, rounded, % lin. long, sparingly 
ciliolate. Receptacle and pedicel together obovoid-oblong, hardly ? lin. 
long, $ lin. in diam. at the apex, smooth. Petals broadly ovate, } lin. 
long, 3 lin. broad or more, deciduous. Stigma projecting } lin. above 
the insertion of the petals. Berry pedicelled, subglobose, smooth, 24 
din. long, 2 lin. in diam.; pedicel about 4 lin. long.—Pax in Engl. 
Jahrb. xxxix. 616. V. tenioides, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. i. 339, not 
of Comm. J. tenioides, Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 198; Schweinf. 
an Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. ii. 152. V. semiplanum, Engl, in Engl. & 
Prantl, Pflanzenfam. Nachtr. ii.140. Aspidixia semiplana, Van Tiegh. 
in Bull. Soc, Bot. France, xliii. 193. 
Wile Land. Eritrea: Mensa; below Gheleb, 5600 ft., on Loranthus Acacia, 
Zuce., Schweinfurth, 1288! 1620; Asraou Ferry, north of Aidereso, 4600 ft., 
Schweinfurth & Riva, 671! Addi Conzi, near Acrur, 6300 ft., Schweinfurth & 
Riva, 1162! Abyssinia: Kolla Region; near Harre Schoa, 6300 ft., on Acacia sp., 
Schimper, 667! valley of the Tacazze River, at Addi-Maria, near Derakka, on 
Eugenia owariensis, Beauv., Quartin Dillon, Amhara; Mitraa, 6000 ft.,on Acacia, 
&c., Rosen, 
Viscum tenioides, Comm. (a native of the Mascarene Islands), has been trans- 
re to the genus Korthalsella by Engler in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. Nachtr. 
a. 138, 
19, V. Geetzei, Engl. in Engl, Jahrb. xxx. 304. A much-branched 
shrub. Branches elongated, subterete, internodes 9-14 lin. long, 14-14 
din. in diam.; branchlets rather slender, internodes compressed, slightly 
tapering into the base, 4-12 lin. long, 3-1 lin. in diam. Flowers 
dicecious, tetramerous or, more rarely, trimerous. Male inflorescence : 
Flowers geminate, each subtended at the base by a pair of bracts. Bud 
1} lin, long, solid base about } lin. long. Receptacular tube nearly $ 
lin. long. Petals deltoid-ovate, 3-3 lin. long, 3-3 lin. broad. Anthers 
alternately large and small, elliptic or elliptic-oblong in outline, 3-} lin. 
long, 4-4 lin. broad. Female inflorescence: Flowers solitary, or gemi- 
nate, each subtended by a pair of bracts. Receptacle and pedicel 
