ADDENDA. 1031 
long in bud, glabrous; tube splitting between all the lobes 4~8 lin. down 
from the insertion of the stamens (to 9-10 lin. above the base), basal 
swelling obovoid, 2} lin. long; lobes reflexed, lanceolate-spathulate, 44- 
4} lin. long from the insertion of the stamens, upper enlarged part lan- 
ceolate, acute, 2 lin. long, over $ lin. broad. Filaments inflexed, tapei- 
ing upwards, 24-28 lin. long; tooth } lin. long; anthers oblong, nearly 
1 lin. Jong. Disc pentagonal, hardly lobed, $ lin. high. Style skittle- 
shaped above, thickened part 24 lin. long, neck 1 lin, long, the upper 
ae much thicker than the lower; stigma oblong-ellipsoid, about § lin. 
ong. 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Lukolela, on the Congo, collector not known. 
Described from a specimen in the Brussels Herbarium. 
143. Loranthus globiferus, 4. Rich. 
Var. borvuensis, Sprague. Add.: L. spathulifolius, Engl, & Krause in Engl. 
Jahrb. xlv. 291. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: near Garua, 1000 ft., Ledermann, 3503, 3593 ! 
Var. salicifolius, Sprague. Add: ZL. Ostinii, Chiov. in Ann. di Bot., Roma, ix. 133. 
Nile Land. Abyssinin: Dembia; Asoso (on Acacia verugera, Schweinf.) 
Chiovenda, 2696! Cococe Valley, above Gondar, Chiovenda, 1845. 
147. Loranthus lanceolatus, Beauv. Add: L. dodensis, Eng}. 
& Krause in Engl. Jahrb. xlv. 289. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: near Dodo, 2300 ft., Ledermann, 2954! 
147a. Loranthus ophiodes, Sprague in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, 
lviii. Mém. viii. 202. Branchlets glabrous, smooth and brownish in a 
young state, afterwards ash-coloured, densely and finely lenticellate, 
13-1? lin. in diam. 1 ft. below the apex. Leaves ovate or lanceolate, 
more or less acuminate to an obtuse apex, sometimes slightly apiculate, 
cuneate or subcuneate into the base, 2-34 in. long, 3-14 in. broad, 
coriaceous or subcoriaceous, dull on both surfaces, glabrous, margin 
crispate; lateral nerves 4—5 on each side, oblique, anastomosing indis- 
tinctly a short distance within the margin, slightly raised on both sur- 
faces ; petiole 1-3 lin. long. Heads axillary, solitary, 5-6-flowered, 
glabrous ; peduncle 14-13 lin. long; sockets of the flowers arranged in 
a circle, saucer-shaped, 3-1 lin. in diam., about } lin. deep, the inner 
part of their walls enclosing the pentagonal or hexagonal slightly con- 
cave apex of the peduncle; bract shallowly cupular, dorsal margin about 
# lin. long, minutely ciliate, ventral margin 4 lin. long. Receptacle 
and calyx together campanulate, 13-1} lin. long. Calyx truncate, 
irregularly split, about 1 lin. long. Corolla glabrous, 1} in. long in 
bud, apical swelling ovoid-oblong, subacute, 2} lin. long, over 1 lin, 
in diam., pentagonal, angles ribbed, basal swelling subglobose, 2-24 lin. 
long, 1 lin. in diam. ; tube split unilaterally 6-63 lin. down ; lobes re- 
tlexed, linear-spathulate, very acute, 44 lin. long, } lin. broad, Fila- 
ments inserted % lin. below the base of the corolla-lobes, involute, 
tapering upwards, 3 lin. long, ;% lin. broad at the base, tooth stout, 
% lin. long; anthers narrowly oblong, 1} lin. long. Disc tena 
gonal, fleshy, glabrous, $-} lin. high. Style skittle-shaped above, 
