Vismm.] lokantiiacp:-!-: (Sprague). 131 



long, 1-3 lin. broarl, those of the main branches tliicketied along 

 the middle ; leaves scale-like, inconspicuous ; flo\vcr;s diuucious, 

 tetramerous ; male inflrn-escences axillary, composed of 1-3 3-iio\vcrcd 

 cymules, each of which is borne by a braeteal cup ; bracteal cup 

 subtended by a pair of scale-leaves at tlie base, sessile, boat-shaped, 

 i-| lin. long ; lobes spreading, rounded, witli scarious margins ; 

 flower 11 lin. long ; solid base } lin. long ; receptacular tube *] lin. 

 long ; petals alternately deltoid and (leltoid-uvate, ^ lin. long ; 

 anthers trigonous, elliptic-oblong in outline, h-j lin. lung, g-lin. broad 

 or less; female flowers axillary, solitary, each borne by a bracteal 

 cup ; bracteal cup conspicuously bilobed, ^ lin. high, |^ lin, long; lobes 

 f lin. long, roundedj with scarious margins, falling ^ lin. short of the 

 apex of the receptacle ; pedicel not clearly differentiated from the 

 receptacle in the flower ; receptacle and pedicel together subcylindric, 

 narrowed to the base in the lower third, |; lin. long, nearly | lin. in 

 <liam. ; petals ovate-oblong, | lin. long, deciduous ; style broadly 

 conical, ^ lin. long ; stigma projecting I lin. above the insertion of 

 the petals ; berry shortly pedicelled, ellipsoid, 2 lin, long, more or 

 less warted ; pedicel ^ lin. long. Sprague in DyeVy FL Trojj, Afr. 

 vi. i. 407, in ohs. V. dicliotornumy Harv, in Han\ i& Sond, FL Cap. li. 

 ■581, partly^ not of D. Bon. 



Coast Region : Komgha Div. : Kei Kop, on Acacia horvida, Willd., Flanagan, 

 197! 



Eastern Region: Transkei; Keutaiii, Miss Peghr, 1505! Fort Bowker, 

 J^oicler, 554 ! Tetnbuland ; Morley, Driye ! Poiidolaiid ; between Umtata Kiver 

 ^nd St. Johns River, Drege ! Egossa, Sim, 24S9 ! Natal ; Alexandra District, 

 Dumisa, on Comhrctum sp. , Rialatis, 1066 ! Tugela River, Gerrard, 1647 ! 

 Zululand ; P^ntumeui, on Clausena im^quaUs, Bentli., Wood, 3973 ! 



Viscum dicJtotomum, Harv. (I.e.), included two dioecious African species, 

 T^. anceps, E. Meyer, and V. combreticola, Engl. V. dichotomum, D. Don, is a 

 monoecious species, native of India, ^lalaya, Indo-China and China ; each 

 bracteal cup bears either a solitary female flower or a 3-tiowered cyxnule, of which 

 the central flower is female and the two lateral male. 



14. V. Junodii (Engl, in Engl. & PraatI, Pflanzenfam. Nachtr. 1, 

 ^u ii.-iv. 140, F. Jussodii); very closely allied to the preceding species, 

 from which it differs in the following characters : internodes ohlan- 

 •ceolate-oblong or obovate-oblong, 2^-6 lin. long, f-^ lin. broad; male 

 flowers axillary, solitarv, with or without a bracteal cup ; bracteal 

 cup broadly trough-shaped, | lin. high, 4 iin. long, hardly ^ lin. 

 broad; flower 1'} lin. long; solid base ^- lin. long; receptacular 

 tube -1 lin. long; petals ovate, f lin. long; female inflorescence and 

 berries not known. AspidixiaJunodij Van Tiegh. in Bull, Soc. Bot. 

 France J xliii. 193. 



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Eastern Region" : Delagoa Bay, Junodj 452 ! 



Possibly a mere form of V. anceps, E. Meyer. The internodes seem a little 

 ^horter and the male flowers rather larger, with different proportions. Only a 

 fragment of the type number was available for examination. The sole specific 

 charaeter given by Van Tieghem was the flattened stem, which it has in common 

 with V. anceps. Van Tieghem erroneously placed V. anceps in a group of species 



characterised by monoecious flowers (I.e.). 



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