Loranthus. | LORANTHACEE (Harv.) 577 
acute; calyx crenulate; unopened corolla subcylindrical, at length 
urceolate at base, deeply 5-parted, the narrow-linear lobes reflexed 
and spirally revolute. E. & Z.! No, 2282, (not of H. Mey.). L. Lichten- 
steinit, Herb. Willd. L. speciosus, Dietr. Lichtensteinia olecefolia, Wendl. 
Coll. 2, p. 4, t. 39. 
Var. £B, elegans; leaves sometimes ternate ; flowers rather smaller. ZL, elegans, 
Cham. & Schl, lic. E. § Z.1 No. 2283. L.croceus, £. Mey./ 
Has. Parasitic on Acacia trees. Olifantsriver, Clanw., Z. § Z./ Betw. Dweka 
and Zwart-Bulletye, Langvallei, and at the Boschjemans R., Drege’ B, Zwartkops 
and Zondags Rs., Uit., Z.¢ Z./ Gamke R., Zey./ 752. Grahamstown, Gen. Bolton! 
Berlin, Br. Kaffr., Mr. D’ Urban! (Herb. Sond., D., Hk.) 
Robust, with ashen bark. The younger parts, under a lens, are minutely granu- 
lated. Leaves 2-24 inches long, seldom quite } inch wide, tapering more or less to 
a blunt point. Veins more evident in the dried specimens. Peduncles 2-6 lines 
long ; pedicels 2-3 lines. Bract rusty, ovate-acute. Unopened corolla 14 inch long, 
brilliant orange-scarlet, the tips of the petals blackish, at length §-parted nearly to 
the base, its lobes strongly revolute. 1 can scarcely distinguish L. elegans, even as 
a variety. 
7. L. undulatus (E. Mey.!); glabrous; leaves mostly opposite, sessile, 
cordate at base, linear-oblong or ovate-oblong, very obtuse, undulate, 
thick, faintly 3-nerved ; peduncles terminating short ramuli, 2-flow- 
ered; bract oblong, truncate, short; calyx obconic, truncate ; unopened 
corolla suburceolate at base, clavate, at length separating quite to the 
base into 5 (sometimes 4) spreading or revolute petals. 
Has. Between Natvoet and the Gariep, and near Verleptpram, Drege/ Nama- 
qualand, A. Wyley/ (Herb. D. Sd.) : j 
Robust, with ashen back. Leaves 1-2 inches long, varying much in shape, but 
always very blunt and conspicuously cordate at base. Branches virgate, with 
many short, floriferous ramuli, 1-2 inches long, with 1-2 pair of leaves. Common 
peduncle and pedicels both 4-5 lines long. Bract much shorter than the calyx, 
somewhat ciliate. Petals at length quite separate, broad at base, narrowing in the 
middle, spathulate at the apex. 
8, L. Namaquensis (Harv.) ; the twigs, very young leaves, calyx, 
and corollas minutely pulverulent, otherwise glabrous ; leaves opposite 
or alternate, shortly petiolate, ovate-oblong or oblongo-lanceolate, ob- 
tuse, sub-acute at base, thick, penninerved beneath, glaucescent ; pedun- 
eles axillary, shorter than the calyx, 3-5-flowered ; flowers sessile ; bract 
obliquely cupshaped ; calyx repand or truncate ; unopened corolla much 
constricted above the urceolate, swollen base, obtuse, 5-lobed, the tube 
splitting, the short, spoonshaped lobes reflexed. L. olecfolius, H. Mey.! 
(not of Ch. and Schl.) 
Has. Groenrivier, and near Verleptpram, on the Gariep, Drege! Namaqualand, 
A. Wyley! Modderfontyn, Rev. H. Whitehead! (Herb. Sd. D.) : 
Robust, with a pale, ashen, or rufous bark. Leaves 14-2 inches long, 3-1 inch 
wide, all but the very young ones quite glabrous and glaucous. Common peduncle 
1-2 lines long. Corolla ie inch long, its blunt apex somewhat 5-umboned ; tube 
splitting down one side nearly to the base. i 
9. L, Kraussianus (Meisn.! in Lond. Journ. Bot. vol. 2, p. 539) 5 
quite glabrous in all parts; leaves opposite, on long petioles, ovato-lan- 
ceolate or ovate, obtuse, 3-nerved at base, and faintly penninerved ; pe- 
duncles axillary, about 5-flowered ; flowers pedicellate ; bract ovate, 
acute ; calyx repand ; unopened corolla much constricted above the 
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