Loranthus] cxiii. LORANTHACEiE. 929 



asperulous; branchlets mostly spreading horizontally, strongly 

 tuberculate, pnberulous with small compound articulate pallid 

 hairs, leafy; leaves alternate or oftener ternate or even 

 quarternately sub-verticillate, ovate-oblong, more or less obtuse 

 at the apex, nearly rounded or subcordate at the base, coriaceous, 

 very bright green above, pallid and lepidote-hoary beneath, 2 to 

 3 in. long by f to If in. broad, entire and narrowly revolute on 

 the margin, the younger ones whitish-tomentose on both faces ; 

 petiole ^ to 1 in. long, more or less hairy or scaly; flowers 1^ 

 to 2 in. long, sulphur-yellow, shortly pedunculate, very densely 

 clustered in fascicles, tomentose ; the perianth straight, 5-lobed ; 

 the lobes valvate in aestivation, linear-spathulate, ^ in. long ; the 

 tube narrowly cylindrical, about li in. long, 10-nerved, slightly 

 tapering from the middle downwards, somewhat thickened about 

 the base, stellate-hairy outside, minutely puberulous-scaly inside ; 

 epicalyx short, whitish-tomentose; anthers ~ in. long; filaments 

 stout, inserted about the throat of the perianth, twisted, f in. long, 

 not toothed at the apex ; style nearly equalling the perianth ; flower- 

 buds yellow, rigid, fleshy ; young fruit J in. long. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — On wooded slopes by the river Delamboa, growing 

 on a Sterculia (Bondo ia Molemba ; of. ante, p. 82) and other deciduous 

 trees and usually clothing with its dense mass the topmost branches of 

 their heads ; fl. beginning of Sept. 1855. No. 5283. In forests at the 

 right bank of the river Delamboa on Sterculias and Acacias ; young 

 fr. Jan. 1856. No. 5284. On the right hand side of the Ambaca 

 road, growing as it seemed exclusively on the upper branches of a 

 Malpighiaceous (?) tree ; fl. 13 Sept. 1856. No. 5285. 



Nearly related to L. cinereus Engl. 



7. L. Zygiarum Hiern, sp. n. 



A parasitical shrub, 2 to 3 ft. high, growing on the branches 

 of a species of Alhizzia] branches dusky, rambling, quite patent, 

 rigid, tuberculate ; branchlets at the extremities and young parts 

 puberulous or tomentellous with short stellate or articulate tawny 

 hairs; leaves opposite or subalternate, crowded, oval, rounded or 

 obtuse at both ends, fleshy-coriaceous, subglaucous- green, without 

 gloss, glabrous or nearly so above, more or less spread with small 

 scattered stellate-scales beneath, 1 J to 2|- in. long by f to 1^ in. 

 broad ; petiole J to f in. long ; flowers splendidly scarlet, about 

 If in. long, slender, glabrous or nearly so, on short pedicels 

 arranged in lateral clusters several together on the branchlets ; 

 epicalyx sub-hemispherical, green, small, wavy at the short free 

 entire margin ; bracts small; perianth-tube about 1^ in. long, 

 about yV in. in diameter, cylindrical throughout or very little 

 dilated about the top ; the lobes 5, sublinear, broader at the base, 

 slightly spathulate towards the apex, about -^ in. long ; filaments 

 5, glabrous, opposite to the perianth-lobes, ~ in. long, rather thick, 

 twisted, inserted about the throat, not toothed at the apex ; 

 anthers yV in. long, glabrous, attached at the base ; style glabrous, 

 about equalling the perianth ; young berries globose, green. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — By the banks of the river Delamboa rather rare, 



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