Viscum.] LOHANTiiACE.E (Sprague). 125 



anthers inserted aLout the base of the petcals, obtusely trigonous, 

 elliptic or suborbicular in outline, | lin. long, ^-^r^ Vm. broad; 

 feinale flower: receptacle subclavate, | lin. long/ § I'in. in diam., 

 rapidly becoming ellipsoid-oblong and then ellipsoid after pollina- 

 tion; petals slightly patulous, oblong-ovate, about | lin. long, 

 I lin. broad ; style and stignm together | lin. long ; berry ellipsoid 

 or ovoid, 2 ]in. long, smooth, crowned by the persistent petals, 

 Engl Ilochgrhirgsfl. Trojx Afr. 198 ; Emjl, Jalrh, xx. 131 ; P//. Od- 

 Afr. C. 167; Sckwetnf. in Bull. Ilerh. Boiss. ix, App. ii. 152; Vau 

 TiegJi. in Bull Soc. Bot, France, xliii. 190; Sprague in Thjer, FL 



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izjAHTRKr* i\i.uio> : ronaoiana ; roix or. jonn, uaipm, '^.^bh \ j>at<ai ; lugela 

 A-er, Gerrard, 1651 ! Enyangweni, Gerrard <t McKen. 1865! Ungoya Forest, 

 'ood, 3S64 ! Great Xoodsberg, iroo^, 4145 I Umlaas, Weale\ Alexaudia District, 



Trop. Afr. vi. i. 397. 



Journ. Bot. 1882, 245, in ohs,, name onhj. 



Eastern Eegio>^ : Pondoland ; Port St. John, Galpin, 2SStJ ! Natal ; Tugela 



IF. 



Dumisa, on Jiapanea sp., Rudatis, IQi-i I Deiagoa Bay, Mrs. Monteiro \ 



Also ill Tropical Africaj extending northwards to Eritrea, 



5. V. obscurum (Thunb. Prodr. 31); glabrous; stem and older 

 branches terete, younger branches and branchlets hexagonal ; inter- 

 nodes 2~2^ in. long, the uppermost slightly compressed ; leaves 

 distinctly petioled, oblanceolate, narrowly or broadly obovate, 

 rounded at the apex, cuneate into the base, |-H in. long, |-| in. 

 broad, coriaceouSj dull, 3-nerved; nerves more distinct on the upper 

 surface, sometimes not visible ] petiole |-3 lin. long ; bracteal cups 

 terminal and axillary, solitary or ternate, subsessile ; flowers 



dioecious ; male inflorescence : bracteal cup boat-shaped, 1^- lin, 

 long, |^-| lin. high; flowers obovoid, quadrangular; petals deltoid, 

 A lin. long, |-| lin. broad at the base ; anthers elliptic-oblong, -^-f 

 lin. long, |— g^ lin. broad ; female inflorescence : bracteal cup con- 

 spicuously bilabiate, | lin. long, f Jin. high, ^ lin, high in the 

 middle, lips diverging from each other at less than a right angle, 

 with erect dorsal margins; flowers solitary, pedicelled : pedicel 

 li lin. long; receptacle |- lin. long; petals erect, slightly patulous 

 above, ovate-oblong, obtuse, hardly | lin. long ; style and stigma 

 together ^ lin. long; berry long-pedie-eiled, ellipsoid, 2| lin. long, 

 smooth, yellowish-wliite or white ; pedicel 2-3 lin. long. FJ. Cap. ed. 

 ScJiulL 154 ; DC. Prodr. iv. 285 ; Drege, Zwei Pjl. Bocumenie, 129 ; 

 Harv. in Harv. & Sond, Fl Cap. ii. 579 ; Engl in Engl Jahih. xx. 

 131 ; Bolus ijt Wolltij-Bod in Tians, S. Afr. Pldl Soc. xiv. 316, 

 V. pauciflonun, Brpge, Zwei Pfl. Boturnenfc, 229, not of Tlunh. 

 V. Toiiindifolimn, Fell d- Zeyh. Emm. 357, not of Linn. f. V. hrevi- 

 folium, Emjl in Engl JaJirh. xx. 131. F. bivalve, Engl in Engl d: 

 Prantl, Pfanzcnfam. Nacliir. I zu ii.-iv. 140. Aspidixia bivalvis, 

 Van Tiegh. in Ball Soc. Bot. France, xliii. 192. 



Coast Region : Cape Div. : Tokay Plantation, on Oka sp., BoJvsd' WoUey-Pod ; 

 Swellendam Div. ; Grootvaders Bosch and Duyvels PK)seh, Ecldon S: Zeyher, 2273 ! 

 Mund [ George Div : Kavmans Gat, Di ege ! Uitenhage Div. ; Zwartkops 

 River, Diegel Ecklon & Zeyher, 2272 1 27UU ! near the Zwartkops and Sundays 



