Zoranihus.] loranthace.e (Sprague). 115 



Eastern Regiox : Natal; Table Mountain, Krauss, 208! Guelnz'msl near 

 Durban, Sanderson, 194 ! near Itafaniasi, Wood, 748 ! Umlaas, Wood, D631 ; and 

 without precise locality, Gerrard, 223 ! Mrs, Saunders ! 



16, L. minor (Sprague) ; branches slender, ash-coloured or greyish- 

 brown, under 1 lin. in diam. 6 in. below the apex, bearing short- 

 shoots in the axils of the fallen leaves ; branchlets pale brown, i-^ 

 lin. in diam, ; short-shoots perulate at the base, minutely puberu- 

 lous, bearing 2-3 pairs of leaves, and terminated by an umbel; 

 leaves opposite, petioled, ovate-lanceolate or ovate, f-l|- in. long, 

 4-6 lin. broad, obtuse or rounded at the apex, obtuse or cuneate at 

 the base, thinly coriaceous, glabrous, 3-nerved from shortly above 

 the base, nerves inconspicuous : petiole |-2 lin. long, slender ; 

 umbels 2-5-flowered ; pedicels 3-4 lin. long, slender ; bract uni- 

 laterally developed from a platter-shaped base, -^-f lin. long, oblong, 

 very concave, sometimes almost cymbiform, obtuse, rounded or 

 truncate at the apex, thickly and obtusely keeled; flowers pen- 

 tamerous ; receptacle and calyx together campanulate, 1^- lin. long; 

 calyx I lin. long including the intramarginal ring, subtruncate ; 

 corolla linear in bud, broadest about the middle, slightly clavate 

 above, acutely acuminate, up to 2 in. long ; filaments 2^-3 lin. long, 

 with a ventral oblong thickening f lin. long at the apex; anthers 

 linear, 2^—3^ lin, long, connective rounded; disc much shorter than 

 the calyx; style filiform; stigma ovoid, nearly ^ lin. long; berry 

 red, obovoid, 4-5 lin. long. L, natalitius, var. minor, Harv. in 

 Harv. d- SoncL Fl. Cap. ii. 576 (^misplaced under L. Zeylteri) ; Wood, 

 Handb. FL Natal 115. 



Eastern Regiox: Natal; Mooi River, Gerrard, 1434! by the Umtwahuni 

 River, on Clausena iiutequalis, Beubh., Gerrard ci: McKeu, 1863 ! Umzinyati, Wood, 

 1320! Alexandra District, Dumisa, Iludatis, 1120! Zululantl ; Qiuleni Forest, 

 6000 ft., Davis in Ecrb. Wood, 8608 ! 



Distinguished from the preceding species, to which it has hitherto been referred 

 as a variety, by tbe minutely puberulous short-shoots, the .smaller, less coriaceous 

 leaves, the smaller, very slender corolla, the disc much shorter than the calyx, 

 and the filiform style. The corolla is white, tipped with yellow {Gerrard), or 

 red and pink {Wood). 



17. L. Bolusii (Sprague) ; glal^rous ; branches terete, ash-coloured, 

 densely lenticellate ; branchlets subangular, brown, about | lin. in 

 diam. 6 in. below the apex ; internodes ^-1 in, long; leaves opposite 

 or alternate, petioled, oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate, U-2f in. long, 

 5-8 liu. broad, minutely apiculate or obtuse at the apex, narrowed 

 into the base, rigidly coriaceous, trinerved from shortly above the 

 base, nerves slightly raised on the upper surface, less evident on the 

 lower; petiole l|-2i lin. long; umbels axillary, solitary, shortly 

 perluncled, 4-5-llmvered ; peduncle stout, |-J lin, long; pedicels 

 1-| lin. long ; bract cupular, produced dorsally into a deltoid lobe, 

 dorsal margin | lin. long, equalling the calyx, ventral margin J lin. 

 ^ong; flowers pentamerous ; receptacle and calyx together turbinate, 

 i lin. long; calyx truncate, ^ lin. long; corolla 10-11 lin. long; 



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