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LXII. UMBELLIFERÆ. 
1. Hydrocotyle petiolaris, DC. Prod. 4. p. 60.—-Cape Palmas, 
Grand Bassa, and on the River Nun, Vogel, Ansell; also 
East Tropical Africa and Madagascar. 
Both this plant and the South African H. Caffra, Meissn., 
are very variable in the length of the petioles and in the crena- 
tures of the leaves, as well as in inflorescence ; and there is 
considerable doubt whether either is really distinct from the 
South American A, Bonariensis, Lam. 
3. Hydrocotyle Asiatica, Linn.—DC. Prod. 4. p. 61.—St. 
Thomas, Don.—A common plant within and south of the 
Tropics in both hemispheres. 
LXIII. LonANTBHACEE. 
1, Loranthus Pentagonia, DC. Prod. 4. p. 303. et Coll. Mem. 
6. £. 8—On the Gambia, Don. 
2. Loranthus Belvisii, DC. 1. c.—L. lanceolatus, Pal. Beauv. 
Fl. Ow. et Ben. t. 69.—Abdh, Cape Coast and Sierra Leone, 
Vogel, who gathered it at the latter station on Psidium py- 
riferum, and observes that the flowers are red, striped with 
White and tipped with brown, and the fruit red, assuming a 
greenish tinge when quite ripe; Grand Bassa, Ansell; Sierra 
Leone, Don: 
3. Loranthus (Seurrula) Jeptolobus, Benth. ; glaber, ramis vix 
Compressis, foliis petiolatis ovatis obtusis basi rotundatis, pe- 
dunculis brevissimis fasciculatis umbellatim paucifloris, bracteis 
parvis appressis, corolla tenui scabra basi zquali hine fissa 
limbi” lobis 5 angustissime linearibus.— On the Quorra, at 
Attah, Vogel. 
Rami crassiusculi, teretes v. ad nodos leviter compress, verru- 
culoso-punctati. Folia opposita, magnitudine et forma varia, 
pleraque lato-ovata, 3 poll. longa, 2 poll. lata, apice obtu- 
Sissima, basi rotundata, crassa, penninervia, glabra vel sicci- 
tate scabra, superiora sepe angustiora; petioli semipollicares 
vel paullo longiores. Flores numerosi, ad axillas ames 
fere sessiles; pedicelli nempe rarissime lineam excedunt. 
