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bark was soft, smooth, and of a pale grey colour. 'The corolla is divided into five claws at tip; опе side 
of it is split halfway down, showing five curled-up stamina and one pistil.—J. А. G.] 
Plate XLIV. fig. 1. Flower, detached and much enlarged; fig. 2. Anther, back- and 
front; fig. 3. Ovary and style; fig. 4. Fruit. The flowers are not so long as, and di- 
stinctly more slender than, represented on the Plate. 
9. LORANTHUS, sp. nov.? Material insufficient for description. 
[At 6° 47' S. lat., alt. 3000 feet, this parasite was found grafted or growing upon the higher branches of 
living trees, and also upon a gigantic thistle. Its branches were not branched, but merely wands, 3 feet 
long, with flowers in sets at intervals along these stems, and leaves at their tips. The flowers in 
November were 2 inches long, clove-coloured, and drooped from the stems.—J. A. G.] 
4. VISCUM TUBERCULATUM, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 338 (ех deser.). Glabrum ; ramis 
crassiusculis, subteretibus, novellis angulatis; foliis obovato-rotundatis ellipticisve rarius 
ovatis, apice obtusis, breviter petiolatis, coriaceis, subtus trinerviis; floribus parvis, in 
nodis tuberculatis sessilibus ; ovario basi 2-bracteolato, bracteolis vaginatim connatis ; 
fructu subgloboso, tuberculato. 
Rami 1-4 poll. diametro, nodis incrassato-tuberculatis. Folia 1-11 poll. longa, 1-4 poll. lata; petiolus 
то-} poll. longus. Васса magnitudine baccarum Piperis nigri, apice stylo persistente coronata. 
Fl. masc. . +++ 
Hab. Usui, 2° 42’ S. lat., alt. 4500 feet, Nov. 1861, Col. Grant! Occurs also in 
Abyssinia. | 
[Found covering а tree on the rocky terrace of Usui, alt. 4500 feet. Leaves fleshy, the same colour . 
upon both sides. The flower, in November, has four fleshy yellow petals, with black pistil in its centre. 
Berry the size of a small pea, round, orange-colour, thin skin, breaks like а currant; and: the large green 
seed is enveloped in mucilage.—J. А. G.] 
Plate XLV. fig. 1. Female flower and sheathing connate bracteoles; fig. 2. Same, in 
section; fig. 3. Young, and fig. 4. Mature fruit; fig. 5. Transverse section of latter. 
RUBIACEZÆ. 
1. SARCOCEPHALUS RUSSEGGERI, Kotschy; Schweinfurth, in Reliquiæ Kotschyanæ, 
49, tab. 88. 
Hab. Madi, Feb. 1863, Col. Grant ! 
Although we have only a leafy specimen, I cannot doubt the identity of Col. Grant's plant with 
Kotschy”s no. 511, from Fesoglu. How far S. Russeggeri may be specifically different from 8. esculentus, 
Sab., I do not here stay to inquire. Col. Grant describes the fruit as edible. ЭР T ; 
ГА scrubby-looking tree, growing in the woods of Madi; the bark much split into long, straight-sided, 
half-inch-wide stripes, which are of a silver-grey colour and dotted. The inner bark was much cut away, 
as if the natives made some use of it. Тһе peculiarity of the tree is that its main branches throw out 
opposite ones, which subdivide and throw out three to five pairs of leaves, and the foliage becomes thus 
too heavy, and dies with the season. The leaves vary much in size: some are the size of a plate and 
round, others broadly elliptical ; and those upon the low branches are small, growing in tufts and concealing 
the stem. АП the leaves have a shining surface, have a red midrib, and the ribs are prominent behind. 
Fruit (sometimes hanging from the stems) is round, 2 inches in diameter, marked surface, and brown 
colour like the skin of a native, can be bitten like an apple, and tastes something like one. A section 
of this fruit shows innumerable rays from a solid centre; between these rays there is the red-pink 
pulp and the seeds, which are red, ovate, and not larger than the head of a pin. Our men could not 
name it to me; but the Egyptians eat the ripe fruit on the tenth of February.—J. A. G.] 
