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2. Gyrocarpus hababensis, Chiov. in Ann. di Bot., Roma, ix. 132. 
Branchlets fairly stout, straight, 14-2 lin. in diam. 6 in. below the apex, 
minutely and inconspicuously pubescent at the apex, quickly becoming 
glabrous, bark at first brownish, soon becoming ashy-grey and irregu- 
larly cracked longitudinally. Leaves 3-5 together at the ends of the 
branchlets, suborbicular, 3-1 in. long, 1-14 in. broad, rounded at the 
apex, shortly and abruptly subcuneate into the petiole from a rounded 
or subtruncate base, papery or thinly coriaceous, glabrous, 3-nerved with 
the lateral nerves soon forked, veinlets dark; loosely reticulate, slightly 
impressed and inconspicuous on the upper surface, hardly raised but 
conspicuous by their colour on the paler lower surface ; petiole slender, 
minutely puberulous, 5-10 lin. long. Cymes 2-4, fascicled at the ends 
of the branchlets, 14-13 in. long; rhachis and its branches black, 
minutely and sparingly pubescent or puberulous ; pedicels about } lin. 
long, puberulous. Perianth }—3 lin. long in male, rather longer in 
hermaphrodite flowers (Chiovenda), irregularly lobed, coarsely pilose. 
Filaments up to 4 lin. long, coarsely and sparingly pilose; anthers 
oblong, 2 lin. long. Staminodes clavate, 2 lin. long, densely 
villous. Ovary subglabrous or minutely and sparingly puberulous 
(Chiovenda). Fruits ovoid, 4-4} lin. long, black, glabrous, faintly 
8-ribbed ; wings linear-oblanceolate, about 2} in. long, 23-34 lin. broad, 
glabrous. 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Habab; Aide Lebca, Zerracciano & Pappi, 1268! 
Naro, P, appt, 8256! Assaorta, Mount Ghedem, Terracciano § Pappi, 4! 
la. Loranthus patentiflorus, Lngl. ¢ Krause in Engl. Jahrb. 
xlv. 281. An erect bush, 1-14 ft. high. Branchlets terete, fairly stout, 
up to 24 lin. in diam., brownish-red or greyish-brown, smooth in a 
young state, covered with numerous punctiform lenticels when adult. 
Leaves oblong or lanceolate-oblong, narrowed above to an obtuse or 
rounded apex, acute or subacute at the base, 2-3} in. long, 8-15 lin. 
broad, thinly coriaceous, glabrous, dull, nerves fairly prominent on both 
surfaces in a young state; petioles 24-4 lin. long. Racemes axillary, 
shortly peduncled, numerous-flowered, shorter than the leaves, up to 
23 in. long; pedicels 1-1} lin. long; bract ovate, acute, #-{ lin. long, 
ciliate, much thickened dorsally in the lower half or two-thirds. Recep- 
tacle and calyx together narrowly campanulate, about 1 lin. long. Calyx 
ascending, } lin. long, shallowly lobed, ciliolate. Corolla white, nearly 
5 lin. long, slender in bud. Filaments 1-1} lin. long; anthers 2} lin. 
long. Style nearly 4 lin. long. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: between Jakuba and the camp on the Mao Jim, 
4000 ft., Ledermann, 2630! 2675. 
Apparently allied to L. Wildemanii, Sprague, from which it differs in the much 
larger bract, shorter receptacle and longer calyx. Fully developed flowers are not 
nown, 
2a. Loranthus rubrostamineus, /ngl. 5 Krause in Engl. Jahrb. 
xlv. 282. Branchlets terete, fairly stout, glabrous, dark brown, up to 
1} lin. in diam. 8-10 in. below the apex, smooth or slightly striate in a 
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