Loranthus\ cxiii. loranthace^. 931 



12. L. brunneus Engl., I.e., p. 88. 



Agelanthus brunneus Van Tiegh., I.e., p. 738 (1896). 



PuNGO Andongo. — An erect or ascending shrub, growing in masses 

 as if forming thickets on the branches of Leguminous and other trees ; 

 leaves compactly coriaceous, with melastomaceous nervation ; flowers 

 blood-red, often densely covering chiefly the lateral branchlets. In 

 the forests of Pedras de Guinga and Mutollo, growing on Caesalpinieae 

 with a tamarind-like habit (cf. Brachystegia tamarindoides Welw. ; 

 and Welw. herb. no. 572, ante, p. 302) ; scarcely well-developed fl. 

 Jan. 1857. No. 4850. 



13. L. Henriquesii Engl., I.e., pp. 88-89, as to n. 4885, not as 

 to n. 4881. 



HuiLLA. — Flowers whitish-rosy. Near MumpuUa, on Panda trees 

 (cf. Brachystegia spicceformis Benth. ; Welw. herb. no. 578 ; ante, 

 p. 300) ; fl.-bud Oct. 1859. No. 4885. 



14. L. glomeratus Engl., I.e., p. 89. 



L. Henriquesii Engl., I.e., pp. 88-89, as to n. 4881, not as to 

 n. 4885. Agelanthus glomeratus Van Tiegh., I.e., p. 738. 



HuiLLA. — Flowers whitish-rosy (?). In Panda forests, on Gardenia 

 Jovis-tonantis Hiem, Welw. Coll. Carp. 168 (partly), ante, p. 461 ; 

 near the lake Ivantala ; not yet in good fl. end of Feb. 1860. No. 4880. 

 In forests between Nene and Jau, on Parinari Mohola Oliv. (cf . Welw. 

 herb. no. 1282 and Coll. Carp. 1 ; ante, p. 320) ; in young fl.-bud April 

 1860. No. 4881. In forests about LopoUo ; in young fl.-bud Dec. 1859. 

 No. 48816. 



This species should perhaps be reduced to the last, but if distinct 

 No. 4881 is better placed here. 



15. L. GHgii Engl., I.e., p. 91. 

 Agelanthus Gilgii Van Tiegh., I.e., p. 738. 



HuiLLA. — A very elegant much-branched shrublet ; leaves glaucous ; 

 flowers white, purplish at the base and apex. On trees of Combretaceag 

 (cf . Comhretum holosericeum Sond. ; ante, p. 350 ; Welw. herb. no. 4379) 

 plentiful, and on Mimosese (cf . Acacia rohusta Burch. ; Welw. herb, 

 no. 1833 ; ante, p. 314) rarely ; in the Lopollo country ; fl. Dec. 1859. 

 Not uncommonly in company with three or even four other species of 

 Loranthus. No. 4893. 



16. L. Buchneri Engl., I.e., p. 114, partly, t. 2. fig. E. 

 Ambriz. — A shrub, virgate-erect, 3 to 6 ft. high, sparingly and 



patently branched ; leaves rigidly coriaceous, from glaucous to green ; 

 flowers peach-red, the older ones turning to orange-scarlet ; berries 

 from red to green when ripe. In maritime thickets composed of 

 a Celastrinea (cf . Gymnosporia senegalensis Loesener ; ante, p. 145 ; 

 Welw. herb. no. 1361) behind the port of Ambriz, growing parasitically 

 at the roots of a Malvacea (probably a species of Sida) though at first 

 sight terrestrial and not parasitical ; fl. and f r. Nov. 1853. No. 4842. 

 A shrub 5 to 7 ft. high ; leaves opposite, fleshy, glaucous ; flowers 

 axillary, subsessile, tubular, red. At the mouth of the river Loje, not 

 obviously parasitical ; fl. and fr. Nov. 1853. Coll. Carp. 937. 



No. 4854, which is also quoted by Engler, I.e., p. 115 for this species, 

 has sessile and more crowded leaves and the flower-buds are rounded 

 and not truncate at the apex ; I have referred it to L. sessilifolius Pal. 

 Beauv. 



