128 LOKANTHACEiE (Sprague). [Viscum. 



sp., MacOivan 1 1067 ! Bolton ! Howisons Poort, Hatton ! Queenstowu Div. ; 



Finchams Nek, Galpin, 1820 ! 



Central Region: Prince Albert Div. ; Gamta liiver, Burke I Somerset Div. ; 

 between Znurberg Hange and Klein Bruintjea Hoogte, Dret/e ! GraafFReinet Div. ; 

 near Graaff Reinet. Burchell, 2935 ! Bolus, 73 ! Middelburg Div. ; near Middel- 



burg, Barchell, 280S ! 



Wjestkrn Region : Little Namaqualand ; near the mouth of the Orange River, 

 Drege, 7651 ! Van Rhynsdorp Div. ; mountain 3 miles north-east of Stinkfontein, 



Pearson, 5688 ! 



Kalahari Region : Transvaal ; Magaliesberg, Sanderson I Lehlaba River, 

 Nelson, 5571 Pretoria, Bdunanyi^ 4709! Lydenburg, WUms, 571! 



Eastern Region : Natal ; Springvale, Sanderson ! Tugela River, Gerrard, 

 1652! Mooi River, Wood, 4473! Wcenen, Wood^ 4473a! and without precise 

 locality, Gerrard, 1432 ! 



Alrio in Tropical Africa. 



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9. V. tricostatum (E. Meyer in Drege, Zwei Pfl. Docuuiente, 1)4; 

 229, name only) ; a globose nmch-branclied shrub, glabrous lu all its 

 vegetative parts; stem terete, about 2^- lin. in diain. IG in. beIo\v 

 the apex of the branchlets ; older branches 8- or 12-ribbed5 younger 

 branches and branchlets hexagonal, the uppermost internodes 

 blightly compressed; internodes 4-16 lin. long; leaves subsessile^ 

 spreading, ovate-oblong, elliptic-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, very 

 acute or apiculate at the apex, obtuse or acute at the base, 4-7^ lin. 

 long, l|-3i- lin. broad, coriaceous, 3-nerved, green or brownish in a 

 dried state, margin cartilaginous ; cymules terminal and axillary? 

 solitary or fascicled, 3-flo\vered, usually composed of a central male 

 and two lateral female ilowers, more rarely of three female flowers ; 

 peduncle ^-| lin. long, produced ^ lin. or less beyond the 

 bracteal cup; bracteal cup distinctly lobed, ^-l^ lin. long; lobes 

 ascending, ovate or ovate-oblong, acute or subacute, ^-^^ lin. long, 

 minutely glandular ciliolate ; flowers moncecious, tetramerous ; male 

 flower 1 receptacle and pedicel together obconical, |- lin. long ; 

 pedicel "about f lin. long ; receptacular tube about ^ lin. long ; petals 

 marked off from the receptacle by a distinct groove on the outer 

 surface, subequal, ovate, obtuse, about | lin. long, i^ lin, broad; 

 anthers elliptic, \-^ lin. long; female flower : receptacle and pedicel 

 together about IJ. lin. long; pedicel about ^ lin. long; petals 



shortly ovate-oblong, obtuse or rounded^ f-T-V ^^^^ ^^^^Sy ^"f ^^^* 

 broad ; stigma projecting ^-^ lin. above the insertion of the petals ; 

 berry peclicelled, orange-red (Dinter), ellipsoid, l|-2 lin. long ; 

 pedicel 1 lin. Jong. Harv. in Harv. d SoniL FL Cap, ii. 580 ; Ewjl- 

 in Engl. Jahrh, xx. 131 ; V<in Tieyli, in Bull Soc, Bot. France, xliih 

 190; Sprague in Dyer, FL Trap, Afr, vi. L 403, 1034. F. thjmi- 

 folium, Presl, Epim. Bot, 251. F. Zizyphi-mucronati, Dinter, 

 DeKtsrJi-Siidw.-Afr. 56, partly. 



Central Regiox : Hopetuwn J}1\. ; Wyley, 19 ! 



Western Rkgiux : Little Xamaqualand ; near the mouth of the Orange River, 

 Dreffe ! and without precise locality, Wyley, 71 ! 



Kalahari Rfrr.iox : Orange River Colony ; by the Orange River, on SaVix sp., 

 Burhc, 387 ! Zeyler, 387 ! 747 ! 



ALso ia Tropical Africa, 



