Viseum. | CXIX. LORANTHACE& (SPRAGUE), 40% 
cymule, borne in a bracteal cup, or of a central 3-flowered cymule and 
1-2 flowers on each side. Bracteal cup broadly trough-shaped, § lin. 
high, 13 lin. long, § lin. broad; lobes slightly ascending, rounded, 
nearly.? lin. long, margin scarious. Solid base of flower 4-3 
lin. long. Receptacular tube hardly 3 lin. long. Petals deltoid- 
ovate, 2~? lin. long, 43-1 lin. broad at the base. Anthers trigonous, 
elliptic-oblong in outline, 3-4 lin. broad. Female inflorescence 
consisting of 1-3 flowers, with or without bracteal cups. Bracteal cup,,. 
when present, embracing only the base of the receptacle. Receptacle 
and pedicel together % lin. long, obovoid; receptacle coarsely and 
densely warted ; pedicel 4-3 lin. long. Style tetragonal, }-3 lin. long ; 
stigma projecting ;/, lin. above the insertion of the petals. Berry con- 
spicuously pedicelled, yellow, subglobose, 24 lin. in diam., coarsely and 
densely warted ; pedicel about } lin. long—Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 
131; Engl. Jahrb, xxviii. 385. 
5 milo Land. Uganda: Unyoro; Kibero, on Lake Albert, 2500 ft., Bagshawe, 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Uhehe; near Lula, about 4000 ft., 
Goetze, 505! Rhodesia: Buluwayo, 4500 ft., Eyles, 1139! 
Also in the Transvaal and Natal. 
The Rhodesian plant is typical 7 verrucosum. Those from Uganda and German 
East Africa have less warted fruits, and seem in some respects intermediate between 
V. verrucosum and V. Bagshawei. 
23. V. tenue, Hngl. in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 133. Much branched. 
Branches terete, 1-14 lin. in diam. 9in, below the apex; branchlets slender, 
subterete, grooved in a dried state, less than 4 lin. in diam. near the apex 
internodes 4-13 in. long. Flowersdicecious, tetramerous. Male plant 
unknown. Female plant : Flowers solitary or 2-3 together, 1 central 
and 1-2 lateral, the solitary or central flower either without a bracteal 
Cup or inserted in a two-lipped antero-posterior cup which is half as 
long as the receptacle at the time of expansion of the flower. Receptacle 
obovoid, $ lin, long, $ lin. broad at the apex, smooth. Petals golden- 
yellow, broadly ovate or ovate-oblong, % lin. long,4—,', lin. broad, deci- 
duous. Stigma projecting 3 lin. above the insertion of the petals, 
Young berry sessile, ellipsoid, smooth.—Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 167, t. 19, figs.. 
H-L.  Aspidixia tenuis, Van Tiegh. in Bull, Soc, Bot. France, xliii. 193. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Usambara; at Bangarra, near Lutindi,. 
ft., parasitic on Loranthus Schelei, Engl., Holst, 3302a! Usambara, Buchwald, 
455! coast opposite Zanzibar Island, Kirk / 
24. V. capense, Linn. f. Suppl. 426. A densely branched shrub.. 
Stem terete, about 23 lin. in diam. near the base; branches and branch- 
ets conspicuously nodose; branches very numerous, spreading, longi-- 
tudinally wrinkled in a dried state; branchlets obtusely tetragonal ; 
internodes 2-8 lin, long. the uppermost slightly compressed, Scale-- 
leaves Spreading or at length more or less deflexed, deltoid, acute or 
apiculate, 3-3 lin. long. Lateral scale-leaves broadly subulate, 4—$ lin. 
long. F lowers diccious, tetramerous. Male inflorescence consisting of 
