120 LORANTHACE.'E (Spraguc). [Loranthiis. 



conspicuously petioled, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 1-3 in. long, ^-If i^* 

 broaclj obtuse or rounded at the apex, obtuse or subcuneate at the 

 base, coriaceous, dull, peuniuerved, nerves irregular, patulous or 

 rather oblique, more or less raised on both surfaces in a dried state 

 or hardly visible; petiole 3-10 lin. long; umbels borne on the 

 branchlets, axillary, solitary, 6-10-fiowered ; peduncle 1^-4 lin. 

 long, like the pedicels, bracts, receptacle and calyx minutely and 

 ■densely pilose with rusty hairs; pedicels 1^-2|- lin. long, rather 

 oblique at the apex ; bract unilaterally developed from a saucer- 

 shaped or platter-shaped base, ovate or oblong, |-|^ lin. long, slightly 

 thickened on the back; flowers pentamerous. expanding as in L, 

 Lfansslanus ; receptacle and calyx together campnnulate, 1^-1^ hn. 

 long; calyx shortly 5-toothed or repand, ^'\— g- lin. long including 

 the teeth and the intramai^ginal ring, which is -j.j-^ lin. high ; 

 ■corolla orange, 1^-2 in. long, basal swelling oblong-ovoid or ellipsoid, 

 2-3| liu. long, apical swelling oblong, 2^ lin, long, pentagonal, 

 5-ribbed ; tube constricted for about 1 Tin. above the basal swelling, 

 then broadened upwards to the middle and again narrowed to the 

 base of the apical swelling ; lobes erect, spathulate-linear, 4-5^ lin. 

 long, lower part soft, distinctly ribbed outside, upper part witli a 

 hard inner layer, 2-2^ lin. long, narrowly boat-shaped as seen from 

 the sidej keeled ; filaments inserted at the base of the corolla-lobes, 

 deflexed or inflexed, produced in front of the anther into a tooth 

 l-l lin. long, 2|-3 lin. long excluding the tooth; anthers oblong- 

 linear, If-U lin. long; disc ^-^ lin. high, hardly lobed ; style 

 etittle-shaped above, thickened part 2J-3 lin. long; stigma sub- 

 globose, f lin. in diam. ; berry obovoid^ 3^-4 lin. long. Harv, in 

 Sarv. & Sond, FL Cap. ii. 578; Engl in Engl Jahrh, xx. 109. 



TapinantJius prnnlfoUus, Vcm Tiegh, in Bull Soc. Bot France, xlii. 

 267. 



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t^ish River, Schkchter, 6109 ! and without precise locality, IluU<m ! Bedford Div. ; 



•in the valley of tlie Mankasana River, MarOtcov^ 411 1 King Wininmstown Div. ; 



between Keiskaaima River and the Buffalo River, Dreje ! Perie Forest, Kitntze ! 



KomghaDiv. ; near Kouigha, Flana<jan, 111 ! British Kaftraria, Cooj^er, 329 ! 543 ! 



Ci-XTRAL Rkgiox: Somerset Div. ; near Scmer^of East, Bovkerl 



L, prun'tfollus is closely allied to L, I'mussiftrnis, from whi.h it tliffera in the 

 shape of the receptacle, the more or less distinctly 5-toothed cal}A, the longer 

 corolla-lobes, which are less strongly keeled, a'nd the indimientnm of the corolla. 

 Ihe leaves are on the whole broudt-r, thicT^cr and leas obliquely nerved than those 

 ^u ^•' ^''"'^^^^^'^^^*- ^' hraussutnus var. pulerulus resembles X. p^'unifoJiirs in 

 the indunientuiii of the inflorescence and corolla, but agrees with L. kraussiUniis 

 m other respects. 



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22. L. Schlechteri (Engl, in En<,4. Jahrb. xl. 530); Lranchos 

 terete, very nodose, densely lenticellate, ash-coloured, U-l| Hn. in 

 diam. 6 in. below their apex ; branchlets very short, ^-2 in. long, 

 subangular, pale brown, minutely pilose ; internodes 2-9 lin. long ; 

 leaves opposite, ovate or elliptic, i-1 in. long, 4-7 lin. broad, obtuse 

 or rounded at the apex, rounded or subcuneate at the base, 



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