410 CXIX, LORANTHACE2 (SPRAGUE). [ Viscum. 
1 or 3 flowers, each of which is borne by a bracteal cup. Bracteal cup 
very shortly peduncled, deeply 2-lobed; lobes diverging at rather less 
than a right angle, broadly boat-shaped, acuminate or apiculate, }-{ lin. 
long, 7-4 lin. broad, minutely ciliate; peduncle about 3} lin. long. 
Petals broadly ovate, } lin. long, 3 lin. broad. Female inflorescence 
consisting of 1-3 flowers, each of which is borne by a bracteal cup. 
Bracteal cup transverse, very deeply 2-lobed; lobes diverging at less 
than a right angle, shortly and broadly boat-shaped, lin, long, 3’ lin. 
broad, 3 lin. deep, minutely ciliolate, equalling the receptacle at the 
time of expansion of the flower. Receptacle shortly subcylindric, 
slightly compressed, rounded at the base, 2 lin. long, $ lin. broad at the 
apex. Petals narrowly triangular, 4 lin. long, 3 lin. broad at the base. 
Style broadly conical, 4-} lin. long; stigma projecting 3 lin. above the 
insertion of the petals. Berry subglobose, about 1} lin. in diam.— 
Thunb. FI. Cap. ed. Schult. 154; DC. Prodr. iv. 283; Harv. in Harv. 
«& Sond. Fl. Cap. ii. 581, partly; Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 1315 xx. 
131; Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss, iv. App. ili.55; Bolus & Wolley-Dod 
in Trans. 8S. Afr. Phil. Soc. xiv. 316, <Aspidixia capensis, Van Tiegh. 
in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xliii. 193. 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa: Damaraland; Okombahe, Giirich, 
5; Otyitambi, Giirich ; Usakos, Giirich. 
Also in South Africa. In German South-west Africa it is said to be usually 
parasitic on Acacia albida, Delile, and other Mimosew. In the Cape Peninsula, 
according to Bolus and Wolley-Dod, it is found on various low shrubs, chiefly Rhus, 
often at ground level. 
All the male flowers examined were abnormal, having in their centre a mass 
apparently composed of the four anthers fused together. : 
Harvey, l.c., confused V. continuum, E. Meyer, with V. capense. TV. continuum 
may be distinguished by its pedicelled berries and large rounded lateral scales, which 
are connate posticously, 
25. VW. Menyharthii, Lngl. d: Schinz in Schinz, Pl. Menyharth. 44, 
Branches stout, subterete, longitudinally wrinkled in a dried state, 1}- 
lin. in diam.; branchlets more or less compressed ; internodes 3-1} 7 
long. Flowers diccious, tetramerous. Male plant unknown. F emale 
plant : Flowers 2-3 together, or 4-5, one or both of the lateral tees 
being replaced by a group of two, each flower borne by a 2-lobed bract F 
cup, Bracteal cup slightly shorter than the receptacle at the time © 
expansion of the flower. Berry sessile, ina young state ellipsoid-oblong, 
slightly compressed, 2} lin. long, 1} lin. broad, finely warted ; ee 
projecting 3-4 lin. above the scars of the petals.—V. Menyhartu, Eng}. 
in Engl. Jahrb. xl. 541. V. verrucosum, L. 8. Gibbs in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. xxxvil. 468, not of Harv. ees 
Mozamb. Distr. Portuguese East Africa: Lower Zambesi; at Chindindi, 
near Boroma, on Combretum sp., Menyharth ! Ruodesia: Matoppo Hills, on cretee 
gratissimus, Burch., Miss Gibbs, 16! 
26. V. matabelense, Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xl. 542. = ee? 
branched shrub about 3 ft. indiam, Branches subterete, longitudina y 
