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LorantJms.] lorantiiace.e (Spiagiie). 113 



under J lin. broad ; authors linear, slightly broadened U2:)wai'(ls 

 8 lin, long, connective truncate ; disc sunk, pentagonal, ^ hn. high ; 

 stigma broadly ovoid, | lin. long. 



Kalahari Region : Transvaal; Kaap River valley, Barberton, on Sckrocarna 

 *^(^ffra, Sond., Galpin, 896 ! 



Allied to the Tropical African L, pawjanensis, Engl., which has tetrameroua 

 flowers. 



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13, L. Zeyheri (Harv. in Harv. & Sond..ri. Cap. ii. 576); 

 branches stout, brown, shortly pilose, l|-2 lin. in diam. 6 in. below 

 the apex, bearing short-shoots in the axils of the fallen leaves; 

 branchlets shortly hispid, about 1 lin. in diam. ; internodes \~\\ in. 

 long ; short- shoots perulate at the base, shortly and densely liispid, 

 bearing 3-5 pairs of leaves and terminated by an umbel ; leaves 

 opposite, petioled, obovate or oblanceolate, the lower broader and 

 shorter than the upper, 1-2 in. long, 5-9 lin. broad, obtuse or 

 rounded at the apex, gradually narrowed into the base, shortly 

 pilose in a young state, at length becoming nearly glabrous, very 

 obliquely penninerved, the lower 3-5-nerved from shortly above the 

 base, nerves raised on both surfaces ; petiole |-2^ lin. long; umbels 

 3-6-flo\vered ; pedicels 2-3 lin. long, shortly hispid, thickened at 

 the apex and base ; bract unilaterally developed from a platter- 

 shaped base, erect, oblong or lanceolate-oblong, 1^-2 J lin. long,, 

 f lin. broad, keeled, margins inflexed, pilose outside, equalling or 

 overtopping the calyx; flowers pentamerous; receptacle and calyx 

 together campanulate, 1 i|-l | lin. long ; calyx truncate, ciliate, 

 margin patulous, -j— ^ lin. long, intrainarginal ring \ lin. high ; 

 corolla white and yellow {Mhs Pegler), 2-2J lin. long, linear in 

 bud, very acute, broadest about the middle; tube slightly enlarged 

 at the base, splitting unilaterally downwards to the middle; lobes 

 erect, narrowly ublanceolate-spathulate, about 7^ lin. long, upper 

 part linear-oblanceolate, 5 lin. long, f lin. broad, middle part U lin. 

 long, g liu, broad, lower part 1 lin. long, | lin. broad at the base,, 

 narrowed upwards ; filaments inserted at the base of the corolla- 

 lobes, inflexed, 3-4 lin. long, flattened, narrowed upwards, with a 

 ventral oblong thickening .\ lin. long at the apex ; anthers linear^ 

 3 lin. long; disc pentagonal, hardly lobed, shorter than the calyx; 

 i=ityle skittle-shaped above, thickened part 3-3^ lin. long; stigma 

 ellipsoid, nearly | lin. long ; berry ellipsoid or obovoid, 4 lin. long. 

 EngL in Engl & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. Naclitr. 1 zu ii.-iv. 131. 

 Acrantliemam Zeyheri, Van Tierjh. in Bull Soc\ Bot. France^ xlii. 255. 



Kalahari iU:GiON : Transvaal ; Magalieriberg Eange, by the Crocodile Pdver, on 

 Dodonaeathunbergiana, Eckl. & Zeyli., andJmdttsp., Zet/ker, 168 ! 751 ! Woosdelll 

 Hang Klip Berg between Matlalas Hills and Makapans Poort, Bainesl near 

 Kustenbui'g, .V/^s Pegler, 987! Hout.bosh, Rthmann^ Q-\QQ\ Modderfontein on 

 Acacia caffva, Wilid., and .4. Jiorrida, WUld., Conrath, 330 ! 



Also recorded as collected by Burke, by the Gamka River, Beaufort West Div., 

 hut this is pi'obably a mistake due to misplacement of labels. 



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