108 LORAXTiiACE.^ (Sprague). [Lorantlms. 



The excellent figure aud description oi LorantJnisIoJigituhuIosifS^ Engl, it Krause, 

 leave no room for doubt that it is identical with the common S. African 

 i. glaucus, Thunb. The authors do not mention the transverse septation of the 

 anthers, but this may be easily overlooked. 



Loranthas Barchellii, Eckl. & Zej'h.j is a mere form of L, glaucus^ Thunb., bvit 

 Z. glancvs^ var. BiirchelUi^ DC, which was supposed by Ecklon and Zeyher to be 

 synonymous, is typical L. elcgans, Cham. & Schlecht. Z. glauciis, DC. Prodr. iv, 

 303, is also a synonym of L. degans. 



Thunberg described the flowers of L. glavcns as pentamerous : none but 



tetramerous flowers have been observed by the writer. 



8. L. elegans (Cham. & Schlecht. in Linnfea, iii. 209) ; practically 

 ahrous ; branches terete, greyish-brown, 1-1^- lin. in cliam. 6 in. 



glah 



O 7 



below the apex; branchlets S2:)reading or ascending; internocles 

 ■J-1 in. long ; leaves ternate^ opposite or alternate, petioled, linear- 

 lanceolate or narrowly lanceolate, |-2J in. long, 2-8 lin. broad, 

 obtnse at the apex, narrowed into the base, thinly coriaceous, very 

 obliquely penninerved, nerves slightly raised, especially on the 

 lower surface; petiole 1-2 lin. long; inflorescence a 3-6-flowered 

 nmbel, or a very short raceme bearing one or two flowers near the 

 middle of the rhachis and an umbellate group of three or four 

 flowers at its apex ; umbels or racemes axillaiy, solitary or 

 geminate, leafless or bearing at the base a pair of leaves or a whorl 

 of three leaves; peduncle or rhachis 1-^-6 lin. long; pedicels 1-2^ 

 lin. long, like the bract very minutely puberulous with brownish 

 stellate liairs; bract elliptic-oblong or ti'iangular-ovate from a 

 saucer-shaped base, ^*-| lin. long, ventral marp^in hardly \ lin. Ion 

 flowers i)ei\tamerous, apparently expanding in two stages, the 

 corolla-lobes separating for a. short distance in the first place, and 

 becoming more or less revolute, while the stamens remain erect ; in 

 the second stage the corolla-lobes separate from one another as far 

 down as the insertion of the stamens and coil up spirally, while the 

 stamens break off* shortly above their insertion ; the corolla-tube 

 eventually splits down unilaterally or irregularly nearly to its base ; 

 receptacle and calyx together narrowly campanulate, l|-li li^- 

 long; calyx subtruncate or undulate, \-^ Jiti. long; corolla linear 

 in bud, inconspicuously pentagonal, 1-^ in. long or more, slightly 

 constricted 2|— 3^ lin. above the base, sliglitly enlarged towards the 

 apex; lobes linear, about 1 in. long; filaments inserted 4^-5^ li^^- 

 above the base of the corolla, narrowed upwards, G-7 lin. long; 

 anthers linear, subtruncate, 3J-5i lin. long, not transversely 

 divided; disc \ lin. high; style "filiform ; stigma capitate, slightly 

 oblique. Dn'ge in Linnsea, xix. 663 ; Sprague in Kew Bidh't/'n, 1914, 

 362. X. scldeclitendaliannSy Schdtes^ Sy-^t, Veg. vii. 1635 ; Krauss hi 

 Flora, 1844, 432; Meisn, in Hook. Lond\ Journ, BoL ii. 539. 

 X. croceus, E. Meyer in Drege, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 63, 109, 139, 

 200, ymme only. X. glaucus, DC. Prodr. iv. 303, 7iot of Thunl. ; var. 

 BurcMU;, DC. I.e. X. oleoefoUus, EcM, d- ZeyJi, Enum. 358 ; ITarv. 

 in Earv. & Sand. EL Cap. ii. 576; Bentli. d: Booh. f. Gen. PL iii- 

 209; Engl in Engl JaJirl. xx. 83; Euyl & Prantl, PJIanzenfaou 



iii. 1, 187, t UQ.fg. LN; not of Cham, d ScldecM. X. oleifoJius, 



