Viscum.] LOiiAXTiiACEJ'; (Sprague). l;',?, 



and V. continuum from the latter (BnrltX it is more probable that tlie spechnen.s 

 .ind labels of Zeyher, 749, have been mixed, than that the two species occur 

 togetber iu both localities. 



16. V. robustum (Eckl. & Zcyh. Enum, :ioS)i wliole plant 

 sulphur-yellow {EcMon d' Zeyher) \ branches and brauchlets terete, 

 fleshy, rather stout; branches not nodose; branchlets \-\ lin. iu 

 diam. ; internodes 2-10 lin, long; leaves scale-like, connate, 

 spreading, at length becoming detiexedj deltoid, acute, \-\ lin. 

 long ; lateral scale-leaves broadly subulate ; flowers not kno^-n ; 

 berry set^sile, subglobose, about \\ lin. in diani., smooth. Haw. in 

 Saw, & Bond. FL Cap. ii. 581 ;" Emjl, in Engl. Jahrh. xx. 131. 

 Aqndixla rohusta, Van Tiegh. in Bull, Soc, BuL France, xliii. 193. 



^V'estern Kegion : Little Namaqualand ; T'Kausi Q Konsie.s or Bnffel.s) Ri^-er. 

 EcUon & Zeyher, 2279 ! 



Also collected by Dri(je, 7653b I The locality given iu Dr^ge, Zwei F^. 

 Documente, 112, for No. 7653, is in the Cape Division, and no doubt refers to 

 No. 7653a (^Viscum cajaense). It is improbable that No. 7653b was collected in 

 the Cape Division. 



Tliunb., as suggested by Harvey. 



capcnse 



17. V. continuum (E. Meyer in Drege, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 66, 

 229, name only) ; branches terete^ nodose ; branchlets subangular, very 

 slender, |— i lin. in diam. In a dried state, longitudinally wrinkled ; 

 internodes 3-13 lin. long; leaves scale-like, connate, spreading, not 

 becoming deflexed, rounded, ^-^ lin. long, margizi scarious ; lateral 

 scale-leaves rounded, hardly I lin. long, connate posticously, margin 

 scarious ; flowers dioecious, tetramerous ; male inflorescences axillary, 

 consisting of 1-2 flowers without a bracteal cup, or of a 3-flowered 

 cymule borne by a bracteal cup, or of a 3-flowered cymule with a 

 single flower on each side of it; bracteal cup subsessile, boat-shaped 

 ■with rounded ends, l|Iin. long; peduncle ^ lin. long ; flowers l-|lin. 

 long; solid base f lin. long; receptacular tube f lin. long; petals ovate, 

 ■J lin. long ; anthers trigonous, obovate-oblong in outline, |-1 lin. 

 long, ^ lin. broad or less ; female flowers axillary, solitary, borne by 

 a bracteal cup ; bracteal cup about 1 lin. long, bilobed, f lin. long in 

 the middle; lobes diverging at a right angle, nearly ^ lin. long, with 

 scarious margins, falling I lin. short of the apex of the receptacle ; 

 receptacle and pedicel together |- lin. long, subcylindric, narrower 

 towards the base ; petals ^ lin. long in the bud ; style broadly conical : 

 stigma projecting -\- lin. above the insertion of the petals ; berry 

 pedicelled, ovoid, 2^ lin. long, smooth, yellow; pedicel very stout, 

 1^ lin. long. Sprctfjue in Byer, FL Trap, Afr. vi. i. 410, in ohs. 

 V. capense, Haw, in Haw. d' Sond. FL Cap. ii. oSly partly. 



Coast Bkgiox: Albany DIv. ; near Grahams town, on Acacia sp., MacOican, 

 1142 ! 



Central Regiox : Prince Albert Viw ; between Driekoppie and Blood River, 



Dreije\ Gamta Riv^r, Borlel Zeyher, 749! Somerset Div. ; near Braintje:^ 



Hoogte, on Amcia sp., Barchell, 31u6 ! 3107 1 



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