130 LORANTHACE.'E (Spra^Vie). [Viseum. 



V. 

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Accordiug to MacOwan, *' This rare Visann grows plentifully between 

 Cookhouse Drift on Fisch River and Patrys Hoogte, but invariably on Portvlacana 

 afra, Jacq., whose younger leaves it strikingly resembles. But for the scarlet 

 berries, few but botanists would detect it. " The large arborescent Crasmla 

 portulacca, Lam., is abundant in the same localit}-, but though I ha^e examined 

 hundreds of trees, the Viseum has never occurred upon any. Some sharp-eyed 

 Boers say it gi*ows on the Groot Noors-doorn {Euphorbia tetragona), but this may 

 be a remembrance of the large scarlet berry of Viseum minimum, Harv., on another 

 species of Euphorhia." 



12. V. COinl)Teticola (Engl, ia Engl. Jalirb. xl. 542, Y. comhreti- 

 eolian) ; a much-branclied shrub, 1-1^ ft. liigb ; stem terete, 3|~4 

 lin. in diam. at the base, brown, and slightly glossy in a dried state ; 

 branches and branchlets conspicuously flattened, ribbed in a dried 

 state ; internodes broadly linear, tape-like, broadest in their upper 

 part, slightly contracted at the apex, slightly tapering into the 

 base, §-22- in. long, 1^-3^- lin. broad, those of the main branches 

 much thickened along the middle 3 leaves scale-like, inconspicuous ; 

 flowers dioecious, tetramerous ; male inflorescences axiUary, com- 

 posed of 1-5 3-flowered cymules, each of which is borne by a 

 bracteal cup ; bracteal cup subtended by a pair of scale-leaves at 

 the base, sessile, boat-shaped, 1| lin. long ; lobes ascending, rounded 

 or obtuse, 1 lin. long, glandular-ciliolate ; pedicel (solid base of 



flower) hardly ^ lin. long ; receptacular tube -^ lin. long ; petals 



alternately deltoid and deltoid-ovate, f lin. long, about f nii. 

 broad ; anthers trigonous with a convex outer surface, elliptic in 

 outline, |-f lin. long, nearly |- lin. broad; female inflorescences 

 axillary, composed of 1 or 3 flowers, each of which is borne by a 

 bracteal cup ; bracteal cup conspicuously 2-lobed, 1 lin. high ; lobes 

 ■| lin, long, rounded, glandular-ciliolate, exceeding the receptacle at 

 the time of expansion of the flower 3 receptacle shortly and broadly 

 obovoid, f lin. long ; petals triangular, over J lin. long, ^^-^ ^^^* 

 broad, deciduous; style broadly conical, 1 lin. long; stigma project- 

 ing ^ lin, above the insertion of the petals ; berry ellipsoid, 2h h^' 

 long, red, smooth or slightly warted. Sprague in Dyer, FL Tt'op- 

 Aft. vi, i. 404. F. dicliotomum, Harv, in Harv. d' Sond. FL Cap. 

 ii. 581, as to the Mctgalieshcrg specimens^ excluding synonyms '^ D^ 

 Wild. PL Nov. Herh. Hort. Then. I. 89, excluding synonyms ; not of 

 B. Bon. 



Kalahari Region: Transvaal; Magaliesberg TJange, Sanderson I Burhe,^ 125! 

 Zet/keVj 748! Worsddl\ BulSekpoort, ver}- common 011 Combretum spp,, Enffhr, 

 2840a! near Potgieters Rust, Bolm, 11009! BacMoop, Schlechter, 4287! Rusten- 

 buvg District, Miss Nation^ 320 I 



Aliso in Tropical Africa. 



13. V. anceps (E. Meyer in Diege, ZweiPfl. Documente, 148, 149, 

 229, name only) ; branches and branchlets conspicuously flattened, 

 ribbed in a dried state ; internodes oblanceolate-oblong or oblanceo- 

 late-linear, tape-like^ broadest in their tipper part, slightly or 

 conspicuously contracted at the apex, tapering into the base, ^-1 iii- 



