114 LOKANTTIAGE/K (Sprague). [Loranfhus. 



14. L. Moorei (Sprague) ; closely allied to the preceding species, 

 from which it differs in the following characters : branches, short- 

 shoo ts, leaves and inflorescence glalirous ; leaves glaucous ; umbels 

 about G-flowered ; bract unilaterally developed from a saucer- 

 shaped base, more or less foliaceous, 3-G lin, long, f-1^ lin. broad, 

 or non-foliaceous, U-2 lin. long, flat, not keeled ; receptacle and 

 calyx together broadly campanulate, 1| lin. long ; calyx 5-toothecl, 

 ■|-| lin. long; corolla 2^ in. long; tube distinctly swollen at the 

 base; lobes linear-lanceolate, 7 lin. long, nearly f lin. broad; 

 filaments deflexed, 2^ lin. long ; anthers nearly 3 lin. long ; disc 

 |-^ lin. longer than the calyx ; thickened part of style 4^- lin. long. 



Kalahari Regiox : Transvaal ; near Barbertoii, ^foo)'€ ! 



X. Moorei may be distingvu.sherl from L. natal ttms, Meisn., by tbe glaucous 

 leaver, and the bract, which i.s longer than or at least as lung as the receptacle 

 and calvs. 



15. L. natalitius (Meisn. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 539); 

 glabrous; branches fairly stout, brown^ about 1^ lin, in diam, 6 in. 

 below the apex, bearing short shoots in the axils of the fallen 

 leaves ; branchlet^ f-1 lin. in diam. ; short-shoots 2>erulate at the 

 base, bearing 2 or more pairs of leaves, and terminated by an umbel ; 

 leaves opposite or alternate on the branches and branchlets, opposite 

 on the short-shoots, petioled, oblaneeolate or obovate, 1-2 in. long, 

 4-10 lin. broad, obtuse or rounded at the apex, narro^Yed into the 

 base, coriaceous, obliquely penninerved, nerves slightly raised on 

 both surfaces; petiole 1-4 lin. long; umbels 3-6-flowered ; pedicels 

 3-5 lin. long ; bract broadly and shortly ovate from a saucer- 

 shaped base, dorsal margin -g- J lin. long, subtruncatej sparingly 

 ciliate, broadly umbonate to within ^ lin. below the apex, ventral 

 margin |- lin. lung : flowers pentamerous or occasionally hexamerous 

 {Harvey) ; receptacle and calyx together shortly and widely cam- 

 panulate, 1^-1^ liii. l*Ji^g; calyx patulous^ truncate, irregularly 



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sphtj nearly h Hu. long including the intramarginal ring, which i^ 

 under ^ lin. high; corolla waxy-white tipped with orange-yellow, 

 linear in bud, very acute, slightly enlarged at the base,^2i-2f in. 

 long ; tube spHtting unilaterally downwards to about the middle ; 

 lobes erect, lanceolate-linear, iO-11 lin. long, f-|- lin, broad; 

 filaments inserted I lin. above the base of the corolladobes, 

 deflexed or inflexed, gradually narrowed upwards, 4-4| lin. long, 

 scarlet in lower portion, orange-yellow upwards {Woo(l), wnth a 

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

 3-3| lin. long, connective produced ^\j^l lin. above the cells; disc 

 pentagonal, not lobed, -^ lin. high, a little shorter than the calyx ; 

 style skittle-shaped above, thickened part 51 lin. long; stigma 

 ellipsoid, l lin. long, more or less distinctly" bilobed or trilobed. 

 Harv. Thes. Cap. i. 19, /. 30 ; Han. in Harv. & Soml FL Caj>. ii- 

 576 ; Wood, Natal FL iv. /. 37 1 ; Engl in Engl d Pranll, Ffianzen- 

 fam, Naclfr. 1 zu il-iv, 131. Arranthemum naialitium, Van Tiegh. 

 in Bull. Soc, Bo'. France, xlii. 255. 



