126 LOiiANTiT.vrE.T: (Sprague). [ Viscum, 



Rivers, on Bhn.^ sp. and CdaMrjts sp., Zet/ker, 244! near Uitenhage, Barchell, 

 4414! Cooper, 1576! near Eoon, Baar, 106! Albany Div. : Echlon f& Zeyher, 

 2212 \ Williawsoii\ Grahamstown, on ^alix sp., MacOtcan, 453! Howisons 

 Poort, Ilnttonl Stockenstrom Div. ; Chunai Berg, Echlon A Zeijher, 2273! Kat 

 Kiver, unknown collector I Cathcart Div. ; Goshen^ on Salix sp., Baur, 933 1 East 

 London Div. ; in scrul> on sea-coast at East London, Galpin^ 1860 I 



Central Rkgiox; Somerset Div.; near Somerset East, by the Little Fish 

 River, vmRhus^)., MacOwan, 453 ! 543 ! Luscli Berg, near Somerset East, BurcheU, 



3211 I 



Easti:rn Rf.giox : Xatal, Gerrard, 1654 ! 



6. V. pauciflorum (Linn. f. Suppl. 426); glabrous; branching 

 mainly dichasial : stem and older branches terete, younger branches 

 and branclilets hexagonal ; internodes l~ll ^"- '^^^o' ^'*® uppermost 



;- 

 I 



slightly compressed; leaves subsessile or shortly petioledj (dliptic 

 elliptic-oblong or obovate, apiculate, obtuse or i-ounded at the apex, 

 obtuse at the base, 4-9 lin. long, 3-5 lin. broad, thickly coriaceous, 

 dullj 3-nerved, nerves just visible in the very young leaves, not 

 visible in the older ones ; petiole up to I lin, long ; bracteal cups 

 terminal and axillary, solitary or 2-3 together, peduncled, boat- 

 shaped, distinctly bilabiate, S-flowered; peduncle -J- § lin. long; 

 bracts ascending, triangular-ovate, acute, -§-f lin. long; flowers 

 monfficiousj the central one male, the two lateral female ; male 

 flowers examined abnormal, with a solid receptacle, and the anthers 

 fused into a central mass occupying the position of the stigma in a 

 female flo^ver ; female flowers : receptacle and pedicel together nearly 

 f lin. long; petals ovate-oblong, ^ lin. long; stigma sessile, ^ liii- 

 long; berry pedicellecl, oblong (Harvey), smooth, yellowish -white; 

 pedicel shorter than the berry {Harvey). TJninh, FL Cap. ed. Scladt. 

 154 ; DC, Trodr, iv. 285 ; EeJd, d Zeyh, Enum, 357 ; Harv. in Han\ 

 d Soud. FL Caji. ii. 579, excluding var. Eucleae. 



Coast Region : Y<an Rhvnsdorp Div, ; Heerenlogenient, on Mus Thaahergih 

 Hook., Zeyh^r, 750 \ Tuibagh Div. ; near Tulbagh, EcUon ^ Zeyher, 2274 ! Paarl 

 Div. ; Paarl Mountain, Drkjc ! 



Cextiut. Region- : Caivinia Div. ; Ouder Bokkeveld, ErUon & Zeylier ! 2274 ! 



Western Reotox : Little Namaonaland ; Granite knoll. Brakdam, Pearson, 

 5656 ! Sneeuwknpj PramoUj 5851 ! 



F. paucijlorum is closely allied to V. rot and I folium, Linn, f., and V. irlcostatum, 

 E. Meyer : it differs from both in the denser, usually markedly dichasial branching, 

 and the larger thick nerveless leaves. The material available for examination was 



rather poor. 



SehTnann, 2466, fi'om mountains above Worcester, has been referred to 

 V.paucifiorvm, but the branching is mainly racemose and the leaves are distinctly 

 nerved. 



BurchtU, 1022, from near Tulbagh. also differs in the branoLing, and is said to 

 haA'e orange -colon red berries. 



7. V. Euclese (Eckl. & Zeyh. Enum, 357) ; glabrous ; branching 

 mainly racemose ; stem and older branches subterete, younger 

 branches and branchlets hexagonal; internodes ^-l^ in. long, the 

 uppermost slightly compressed ; leaves subsessile or shortly petioled, 

 elliptic or elliptic-oblong, acute at the apex or apiculate, obtuse at 

 the base, |-lj in. long, 4-7 lin. broad, distinctly 3-nerved ; petiole 

 up to I lin. long ; bracteal cups terminal and axillary, solitary or 



