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With regard to the natural order to which the genus belongs, 
there is no doubt that its affinity is with Rivina and Monococcus, 
and it therefore is rightly placed in Phytolaceaceae. 
As the name Lophiocarpus has to be abolished, the following is 
the synonymy of the two remaining species placed under that 
genus. 
Microtea Burchellii, V. FE. Br. Lophiocarpus Burchellii, 
Hook. f., in Benth & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii, p. 50, and Te. 
Pl, xv., t. 1,463. 
South Africa: Griqualand West; at Griqua Town, 
Burchell, 1934, Bechuanaland; Batlapin Territory (Vry- 
we District) Holub! 
icrotea polystachya, N. £. Br. Lophiocarpus poly- 
slachyus, Turez. in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mose. xvi., p.56. Wallinia 
polystachya, Moq. in DC. Prod. xiii., pt. 2, p. 143. 
South Africa: Little Namaqualand; by the Orange 
River, near Verleptpram, Drege, 2940! 
POLYGONACEAE., 
Oxygonum alatum, Burch. - 
Kwebe Hills, 3,300 ft., Lugard, 89, 90; Mrs. Lugard, 109. 
Flowers white. 
THYMELAEACEAE. 
Arthrosolen polycephalus, C. A. Mey. 
Botletle River Flats, 3,000 ft., Mrs. Lugard, 4. 
Perennial plant, 2 ft. high ; flowers yellow, with a very powerful 
scent, 
LORANTHACEAE, 
Loranthus namaquensis, Harv. a 
Bechuanaland ; at Keria, growing upon Pluchea Leubnitziae, 
N. E. Br., Lugard, 1; Kwebe Hills, 3,000 ft., growing chiefly 
upon Acacia trees, Mrs. Lugard, 228. 
lowers scarlet ; fruit red. 
Loranthus Dregei, Eckl. § Zeyh. var. 
Totin, near ge N — cs upon Acacia, Lugard, 30; 
Kwebe Hills, 3,300 ft., Mrs. Lugard, 44. venues 
Flowers whitish-grey or greenish-cream ; fruit bright red when 
ripe. 
anew indri iridis, fere ad me 
sine Sisbas i apa lineari-spathulati, obtusi, erecti. 
Bacca ellipsoidea, lutea, apice rubra. 
Rebring branchlets ik lin. thick, greyish-brown, ties 
Leaves alternate, 1-5 lin. apart, 4-1} in. long, 13-44 lin. broad, 
oblong or cuneate-oblong, obtuse, cuneately narrowed me pA 
short petiole at the base or subsessile, rather thick , er a 
coriaceous in the dried state, minutely puberulous. bearer” ot 
