Gnidia] cxii. thymel^ace^. 925 



thickets near Mumpulla in Oct. 1859, grew in company with a Gnidia, 

 probably this species. 



5. G. Hoepfneriana Gilg in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xix. p. 268 

 (21 Aug. 1894). 



Lasiosiphon Hoepfnerianus Vatke ex Gilg, I.e. 



HuiLLA. — Perianth pentamerous, sulphur in colour. In dry bushy 

 sandy-earthy places between Mumpulla and Lopollo, plentiful ; fl. 

 Oct. and Nov. 1859. No. 6479- An undershrub, with erect sparingly 

 branched stems and yellow flowers ; fr. Nov. 1859. Coll. Carp. 885. 

 An erect undershrub, 1 to 2 ft. high ; stems several from a big rhizome, 

 sparingly branched ; flowers seen only in a withered condition having 

 apparently been yellow ; heads in fruit thick. In rocky bushy pastures 

 near Mumpulla, sporadic ; late fl. and in fr. end of Oct. 1859. No. 6476. 



The following No. is apparently an undescribed species of 

 Gnidia, related to Arthrosolen flavus Rendle : — 



HuiLLA. — stems several from a woody rootstock, suberect, glabrous, 

 leafy, simple below, branched above ; branches erect, leafy, glaucescent ; 

 leaves oblanceolate, very obtuse at the apex, narrowed to an obtuse 

 shortly petiolate base, glabrous, glaucescent, f to 1^ in. long by^Q to ^ 

 in. broad ; fruiting peduncle nearly 3 in. long, erect, very sparingly 

 pilose, nearly glabrate, dusky in the dry state ; involucral leaves about 

 4, broad, dusky when dry, nearly glabrate ; pedicels short, hispid with 

 long white erect hairs at the apex. In hilly bushy places about the 

 lake of Ivantala ; after the fall of the fr. Feb. 1860. No. 6480. 



CXIII. LORANTHACEiE. 



The number of species and also that of individuals of the same 

 species increase progressively from the sea coast towards the 

 highlands of the interior, and culminate in the mountainous 

 forests of the districts of Piingo Andongo and Huilla at an 

 elevation between 4000 and 6000 feet. 



Nearly all the species are erect or more or less spreading shrubs 

 from 1 to 2^ ft. high, but one species forms a pendulous shrub 

 with slender branches 4 to 6 ft. long. Most of the species of 

 Loranihus as well as the single species of Viscum grow on the 

 lower or higher or even on the top branches of evergreen trees, 

 and less frequently on deciduous trees ; only a few brilliantly 

 flowering species occur in the torrid and treeless coast region, 

 at the base of low shrubs of Malvaceae and Petalidium very 

 much in the same manner as Cytinus Hypocistus L. grows on 

 Cistus on the sandy plains of Portugal ; sometimes in the hot 

 littoral region a beautiful Loranthus is met with growing, not at 

 the base, but on the middle branches, or even on the main stem 

 of low slender twiggy shrubs, and in such cases the combination 

 of the bright green and broad-leaved parasite and its gay crimson 

 flowers with the thinner and differently shaped foliage of the 

 foster plant, forms one of the most striking features of parasitic 

 vegetation along the sea coast of Benguella and Mossamedes ; for 

 instance, a small bush of Gossyjnum or allied genus, only 2 to 3 ft. 

 high, bore several stems of a pink-flowered Zomn^A?ts nearly a foot 



