- jx 
578 LORANTHACEZ (Harv.) [Visewm. 
urceolate, swollen base, obtuse, glabrous, 5-lobed, the tube splitting, 
the narrow, spoonshaped lobes erect, pale within. 
Has. Near D’Urban, Natal, Krauss./ Gueinzius! Gerrard § McKen! No. 640. 
(Herb. Sd. D.) 
Very nearly related to Z. prunifolius; but with opposite, narrower, and more 
lanceolate leaves, which turn black in drying, and perfectly glabrous flowers, ovate 
bracts, and nearly truncate calyces. The peduncles and pedicels are longer, and 
the lobes of the corolla shorter. Leaves 2-3 inches long, 7-1 inch wide, occasionally 
subacute ; peduncles and pedicels 4-5 lines long. Flowers 13 inches long. 
10, L. prunifolius (E. Mey.!); glabrous, except the minutely viscoso- 
puberulous pedicels, bracts and flowers ; leaves mostly alternate, on long 
petioles, broadly-ovate or ovate-oblong, obtuse, faintly penninerved ; pe- 
duncles axillary, umbellately 5~10-flowered ; flowers pedicellate ; bract 
oblong, pubescent ; calyx minutely 5-toothed ; unopened corolla much 
constricted above the swollen base, obtuse, puberulous, 5-lobed, the 
_ narrow, spoonshaped lobes erect, pale within. 
Has. Glenfilling and between the Keiskamma and Buffalo rivers, Drege! Albany, 
_ Eck. & Zey.! H. Hutton! (Herb. D. Sd.) 
_ Bark a dark ashen-grey, rough. Leaves 2-2} inches long, 1-1} wide, those of 
the flowering branches mostly scattered, glawcous (7) ; petioles 4 inch long. Pedun- 
cle 2-3 lines long, several-flowered ; pedicels 2—3 lines long. Flowers 14-2 inches 
long, the lobes (when dry) cream-coloured within. 
11. L, quinquenervius (Hochst. Bot. Zeit. 27, 11, 432); glabrous ; 
leaves alternate, on short petioles, ovate or oblong, obtuse, faintly 5- 
nerved or nerveless, thick and coriaceous; umbels axillary, sessile, 3-5 
or several-flowered ; flowers shortly pedicellate; bract obliquely cup- 
shaped, obtuse; calyx truncate ; unopened corolla constricted above 
the pita ae bts were apiREnE to the middle into 5 very nar- 
row, linear, erect lobes. alp. Ann. 5, p. 938. L. } . 
hoon tie) lp 5, p. 938. L. tenuiflorus, Harv 
Has. Natal, Hochstetter, T. Williamson! Gerrard § McKen! 639. (Herb. D.) 
Bark ashen-grey, smooth. Leaves 1}—2 inches long, 1-1} wide, of a thick sub- 
stance, with immersed nerves, rather more conspicuous when dry. Flowers 14 
inches long, 4 a line in diameter, very much more slender than in any other Cape 
IL VISCUM, L. 
Flowers unisexual. Calyz-limb obsolete. Petals 3-4, short, trian- 
gular or ovate. Male fl. :—Anthers sessile on the face of the “petals, 
gpening ee by several pores. Fem. fl. :—Stamens none. Style 
very short or none; stigma capitate. Ovules 3. Berry 1-seeded. DC. 
Prod. 4,278. Endl. Gen. n. 4584. 
Parasitical shrubs, natives of the Old World, ‘and chiefly of the warmer zones. 
Stems dichotomous or trichotomous, often jointed. Leaves won Bort ornone. Flowers 
ry wi ois he ee , Saye or solitary. The mistletoe (V. album) 
na : ; ee or 
Sco tks bentore oe species. ame from viscus, birdlime, which is made 
ANALYSIS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN SPECIES. 
1. Leafy species: (1—6) 
Leaves obovate or oblong, obtuse, i 
pivcmenes: very tapering at base, or 
