80 COL. GRANT—BOTANY ОЕ THE SPEKE AND GRANT EXPEDITION. 
Foliola 1-2} poll. longa. Umbelle composite ; radii adscendentes, 1-1 poll. longi; umbellulæ 2-3 poll. 
longi; involucellorum bracteolæ minutæ, subulate. Fructus Y poll. longus, + poll. latus. 
Hab. Unyoro, flower and young fruit, Aug. 1862, Col. Grant! Collected also by 
Schimper in Abyssinia, and sent by Consul Petherick from the White Nile. 
[Plant 6 to 7 feet high, generally not far from water. In flower September at 2° М. Stem hollow; 
as thick as a walking-stick, cylindrical and grooved. Stamina 5: generally only one of these attains full 
length; the others remain curled round the pistil.—J. А. 6.1 
Plate XLIII. fig. 1. Detached flower; fig. 2. Same, petals and stamens removed ; 
fig. 3. Umbel in fruit; fig. 4. Single fruit, showing dorsal ridges; fig. 5. Transverse 
section of a mericarp. 
6. LEFEBURIA BRACHYSTYLA, Hiern, in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. 23 (ined.). Herba 
3-pedalis, glabra, glaucescens ; caule erecto, gracili, striato; foliis caulinis ternatim 3- 
partitis, inferioribus longe petiolatis ; foliolis lineari-lanceolatis v. anguste lineari-ovalibus, 
obsolete et remote serrulatis, basi longe attenuatis ; umbellis pedunculatis, exinvolueratis, 
radiis 6-9, involucellorum bracteolis filiformibus; fructu obovato-elliptico, pedicello lon- 
giore, apice rotundato, emarginato, alato, disco dorsali tricostato, vittis 4 jugis alternanti- 
bus; carpophoro bipartito, filiformi.—Lefeburia, sp. nov., App. Speke's Journ. 636. 
Folia caulina inferiora petiolo 1 ped. longo ; foliolis 4-6 poll. longis, 1 poll. latis. Pedunculi erecti, 
5-6 poll. longi. Umbelle radii 131-23 poll. longi, graciles. Fructus 5-6 lin. longus, 31-4 lin. latus. 
Hab. On the river Wallah, in Unyamuezi, 5° 8. lat., alt. 3800 feet, in fruit only, Col. 
Grant ! 
[Found in seed, February, amongst dense vegetation in the back waters of the river Wallah, 52 
S. lat.—J. A. G.] 
LoOrANTHACEÆ. 
1. LoRANTHUS ÅCACIÆ, Zuccarini; Walp. Rep. ii. 448. 
Hab. Nile banks, March 1863, Col. Grant! The same species occurs in Syria. 
[Met with in several localities between 2° and 9° N. lat., but generally growing upon the Acacia Seyal, 
the trunk and stem of which is curiously coloured with a powder of an Indian-red colour. ‘At Ukidi this 
beautiful parasite covered the tops of the trees, forming quite a bush where they joined the tree, and 
` spreading out Ив red uniform bending branches. Calyx green, corolla pink. Native name “ changool’a” 
(Kis.).—J. А. С.] 
2. LORANTHUS USUIENSIS, Oliv., sp. nov. Ramis teretibus, crassiusculis, nodis defloratis 
tuberculatis, innovationibus pallide tomentosis, mox glabratis; foliis oppositis, petiolatis, 
oblongo-elliptieis v. ovato-lanceolatis, obtusis, integerrimis, glabris, obscure penniveniis ; 
floribus in nodis dense fasciculatis, sessilibus, singulatim unibracteolatis, stellatim fer- 
rugineo-tomentosis ; calycis limbo brevissimo, subintegro; corolla lateraliter ad medium 
fissa; antheris adnatis, ellipticis. 
Rami crassitie pennæ cygneæ, cortice levi subcinnamomeo induti, novelli tomentosi. Folia 3-34 poll. 
longa, 1-15 poll. lata ; petiolus 1-4 poll. longus.  Calyz lineam longus, bracteola ovata appressa duplo 
longior. Corolla 1-13 poll. longa, basi leviter globoso-dilatata. Antheræ ellipticæ, connectivo dorso 
latiuseulo. Stigma capitellatum. 
Hab. Usui, flower Nov. 1861, Col. Grant ! 
[Parasitical plant, sometimes covering a whole tree, and becoming a tree. On the 2nd November at.2° 
5. iat., amongst rocks on a hill-chain 4000 feet high, one tree was measured of 7 inches diameter. The 
