376 DECADES PLANTARUM NOVARU.M AUSTRO-AFRICANARUM. 



alto, laxe foliato, tereti, glanduloso-puberulo, foliis pro genere bene 

 petiolatis ovatis vel ovato-ellipticis obtusis pariim grosse dentatis 

 vel crenato-dentatis, 0"7-l cm. longisj 0-5-0-7 cm. latis, petiolo 

 gracili 0-4-0'7 cm. longo ; floribus ad apicem cauiis in axillis 

 foliorum singulis ; pedicellis filiformibus glanduloso-puberulis, folia 

 excedeiitibus, post anthesin elongatis, decurvis; calycis segmentis 

 linearibus vel lineari-lanceolatis obtusis, glanduloso-puberulis, 0-3- 

 0*4 cm. longis ; corolla c. 0*5 cm. diametiente, aurea, labio posteri- 

 ore anteriori multo minore, concavo, obtuso, rotundato, anteriore 

 subquadrato obtusissimo glabro, bifossulato, calcaribus duobus di- 

 vergentibus 0-5 cm. longis obtusis glabris ; stylo lineari brevi, 

 utrinque hyalino-alato, glabro, 0-1 cm. longo, stigmati latiore ; 

 capsula subglobosa glabra, calycem paulo excedente, c. 0-4 cm. 

 diametiente, seminibus pallide brunneis subglobosis, granuloso- 

 punctatis. 



In regione austro-occidentali : In arenosis lapidosisque juxta 

 viam magnam in valle fluminis Hex River, prope " Hex Eiver 

 Station," in ditione Worcester, 14 Aug. 1897; Capt. Wolley Dod. 



At once separable from all the other species of the genus by the 

 two distinct divergent spurs of the corolla. In habit it resembles 

 slender specimens of H. sabulosa Benth. As with the flowers of the 

 other species, they are here yellow. 



On my last journey to Little Namaqualand I discovered two 

 more spurred species of Hemimens, both of which will be published 

 shortly. 



87. Loranthus Pentheri, sp. n. Planta habitu L. olei folio 

 Ch. et Schltd. simillima, ramulis teretiusculis laxe foliatis, elongatis, 

 glabris ; foliis oppositis vel suboppositis anguste oblongis obtusis, 

 glabris perbreviter petiolatis, basi vulgo obliquis, 4-7 cm. longis, 

 1-1-5 cm. latis; umbellis paucifloribus axillaribus, pedunculo per- 

 brevi glabro, 0-5-1 cm. longo ; pedicellis glabris apice incrassatis 

 calycem disciformem formantibus, pedunculo vulgo lougioribus 

 nunc ^quilongis, c. 0-8 cm. longis ; calyce obconico basi truucato, 

 apice integerrimo, 0-6 cm. longo, basi 0-3 cm. diametiente, 

 apice 0-6 cm. diametiente; petalis 5, usque ad basin liberis, e 

 basi incrassata anguste linearibus tertia parte superiore paulo 

 dilatatis, utrinque glabris, c. 5-5 cm. longis, medio fere latitudine 

 vix O'l cm. excedentibus, flexuoso-recurvis, lateralibus basi obliquis; 

 staminibus petalis ^quilongis, filamentis filiformibus glabris, tertia 

 parte inferiore petalis adnatis, antheris porrecto-incurvis angustis, 

 obtusis, 1-4 cm. longis, basi sursum dilatata plicato-rugosis ; stylo 

 filiformi glabro, staminibus ^quilongo vel parum longius ; stigmata 

 capitato. • 



In regione tropico-orientali : in arboribus prope Ligombwe, in 

 terra Matabeleland, 26 Jun. 1895 ; Dr. A. Penther. 



Although allied to L. oleifolius Cham, et Sehlect., our species 

 differs so considerably from it that no doubt about their differences 

 can possibly arise. The flowers seem to have been purplish. 



88. Thesium Sonderianum, sp. n. Fruticulus adscendens e 

 basi ramosus ; ramis irregulariter striatis, subteretibus, elongatis, 



