20 s CONSPECTUS TABULARUM. 
antheris linearibus basifixis, stylo suleato apice attenuato, stigmate 
clavato. Meisn. in Hook. Lond. Journ. vol. i., p. 539. 
Has.—Parasitical on Mimosas, at Port Natal, Dr. Krauss, No.208. Mr. Sander- 
son. (Herb. T. C. D.) 
Descr.— Whole plant glabrous. Branches 2 or more feet long, little 
divided, dull green, leafy. Leaves on the larger branches sub-opposite, 
scattered on the smaller, 14-2 inches long, 5-8 lines wide, flat, with 
very slender, indistinct nerves and veins, varying from obovate to lan- | 
ceolate-linear or lanc. oblong, narrowed at base, and gradually passing 
into a short petiole.’ /Jowers in tufts or umbels, either sessile and late- 
ral on the larger branches, or more commonly at the leafy ends of uncial 
ramuli. Pedicels 4-5 lines long, calyx 1-14 line long, obconic, with a 
truncate or repand, membranous limb. Corolla 2-24 inches long, 1-13 
line in diameter, equal through its greater length, narrowed, but scarcely 
constricted at the throat, with an erect, cohering, 6-(‘‘ 5-” Meisn.)—parted 
limb, acute in the bud; the lobes linear lanceolate. 
Our figure, taken from a dried specimen, represents the flowers as 
pendulous, and so they are described by Meisner; but Mr. Sanderson 
assures me that, ‘‘ when growing, they stand erect, and as they are of a 
waxy-white and tipped with yellow, they resemble lighted candles, by 
which name they are known to the children at Natal.’ Several other 
species of Loranthus are found in §. Africa, all of them in the Eastern 
and N. Eastern Districts. 
Fig. 1, Loranthus natalitius; portion of a flowering branch, the natural size. Fig. 
2, the calyx: 3, the throat and limb ofthe corolla forced open, showing the insertion of 
the stamens; 4, style and stigma; 5, section of the style. The latter figures variously 
magnified, 
XXXII. RAWSONIA LUCIDA, Harv. & Sond. (Bixacee.) 
Gen. Coar.—/Vores hermaphroditi, vy. abortu diclines. Calyx 4—5- 
partitus, sepalis valde ineequalibus concayis imbricatis persistentibus. 
Petala 4-5, decidua, inequalia, concava (seepalis conformia), wstivatione 
imbricata. Squamee-petaloide petalis opposite, basi glandulé biloba 
aucte. Stamina plurima, pluriseriata, intimis hypogynis, exterioribus 
ad basin squamarum fasciculatim adnatis: filamenta libera, subulata, 
exserta ; anthere sagittate, erectze, biloculares, rima laterali dehiscentes. 
Ovarium toro brevi conoideo insidens, liberum, uniloculare; ovula in 
placentis 4-5 parietalibus elevatis plurima, anatropa: stylus subnullus ; 
stigma 4-5-partitum, laciniis subulatis. Mructus (ex ovario carnoso) 
baccatus ?—Mrutex glaber, foliis alternis nitidis oblongis acutis penniner- 
vis serratis, spicis axillaribus folio multo brevioribus, floribus subsessili- 
bus confertissimis. 
R. lucida. Harv. § Sond. Fl. Cap. i., p. 67. 
Has.—Colony of Port Natal, J. Sanderson, Esq. (Herb. T. C. D., comm. cl. 
Hook.) 
Descr.—A shrub or small tree, nearly or quite glabrous. Leaves 
alternate, oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 3-5 inches long, 14-2 
nidieiidinicdiiiee’ 
