Visewm. | LORANTHACEE (Harv.) 581 
- Very robust, much branched, articulated, and brittle, with swollen nodes ; inter- 
nodes 3-1 inch long. Leaves 4 lines long, 3 lines wide, very obtuse or rounded, 
cuneate at base. Berries 2-2} lines long ; style 4 line long. 
7. V. robustum (E. & Z.! 2279); leafless, much branched, articu- 
lated, di-trichotomous ; stem and branches terete (very robust), flexu- 
ous; leaf-scales connate, shortly ovate, patent, acute, scabrous at the 
edge; flowers 2-3-together in the axils of the scales, sessile; berries 
globose, smooth. 
Has. At the T’Kaussi river, Namaqualand, £. & Z.! (Herb. Sond.) 
Branches 3-4 lines in diameter, very fragile, pale, sulphur-yellow, wrinkled when 
dry. Leaf-scales (vagine) patelleform, decussate, their ovate points 1-1} lines 
long. Flowers mostly in pairs. Style.4 line long. Perhaps merely a robust variety 
of V. Capense. : 
8. V. Capense (Thunb. Prod. 31); leafless, much branched, articu- 
lated, trichotomous ; stem and branches terete, the twigs opposite, 
bluntly 4-angled ; leaf-scales connate, short, patelleeform, scabrous at 
edge ; flowers solitary or in threes, opposite, sessile, in the axils of the 
scales; berries globose, minutely pedicellate, smooth. Thunb. Cap. p. 
154. DC. Prod. 4, p. 283. E. & Z.! 2278. Zey.! 749. V. continuum, 
E. Mey. ! Drege! 7653. 
Has. iti d shrubs in the Cape, Worcester, Swellendam, and Q>  * § 
Uitenhage districts, B tree ese! Wallich! Gatnkeriver, Burke/ Namaqualand, Sons Vong - 
Wyley! (Herb. Sd. D.) : R ee 
Bushy, the lesser branches 1-2 lines in diameter, the twigs more slender, generally 
opposite and widely-spreading ; all of a pale, yellowish-green colour, sometimes ‘/, 
turning blackish in drying, wrinkled when dry. Leafless vagine short, spreading, ~ 
decussate. Flowers and fruits mostly solitary and opposite. Style 4 line long. h [ 0 Hg 
9? V. verrucosum (Harv.); leafless, much-branched, articulated, | 
di-trichotomous ; stem and branches terete ; leaf-scales connate, short, | 
patellasform ; berries in pairs or solitary, globose, covered with wart-like 
prominences. 
“ Natal, 3-5000f., Dr. Sutherland! Magalisberg, J. San- 
Has. Weenen coun aa 
derson! (Herb. Hook. D. Sd.) are required fully to establish this oS 
et seen have the fruits uniformly tubercu- 
More numerous and 
as distinct from V. Capense. All those y 
lated, and look normal, They may, however, be in a diseased condition. 
. V. minimum (Harv.) ; leafless, nearly stemless, very minute, unt- } 
ae =. 5 a pair of ovate, connate leaf-scales, and oy 
with 3 flowers. rig ih the plant that bears them : when quite ripe the long, 
cylindrical radicle shoots out, turns round, and plants itself on the Euphorbia stem.” 
_-Y. dichotomum (Don. Pr. Nep. p. 147); leafless, much-branched, 
ot Seow | old stems terete, branches and tugs 
strongly-compressed and two-edged, striate or ridged when dry ; inter- 
nodes linear, slightly narrowed at each end, many times longer than 
