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carmine, glabrous, anthers linear, basifixed. Style 2 in. long or 
rather more, brilliant carmine, glabrous, stigma capitate, 
Okavango Valley, 3,000 ft., parasitic upon Acacia horrida, 
Lugard, 232. 
This brilliantly coloured species is closely allied to L. curviflorus, 
Benth, (which ranges from Arabia, through Nubia, and down the 
eastern side of Africa, to the northern part of German East Africa), 
and is evidently the western representative of that species. It 
differs from ZL, curviflorus in its much broader leaves, much larger 
and stouter flowers, and especially in the ovary which is at least 
twice as long as that of LZ, curviflorus, and much stouter. 
SANTALACEAE, 
Thesium dissitum, V. E. Br. Herba nana, erecta, 12-15 em. alta, 
omnino glabra, ramosa. Rami brevi, erecti, cauli subparalleli. 
Folia 9-23 mm. longa, anguste linearia, acuta, dorso carinata 
incuryo-erecta, glabra. Paniculus vel pseudo-racemus parvus, 
1°5—2°5 cm. longus, ramulis 1-4 mm. longis, apice 1-3-floris. Flores 
sessiles, 3-bracteati. Bracteae inaequales, 15-10 mm. longi. Peri- 
anthium 3 mm. longum, lobis 1°5 mm. longis, lanceolatis, acutis, apice 
intra pilis paucis crispulis ornatis. Fructus ignotus. 
Bechuanaland ; Kalahari Desert, near Mamunwe, Lugard, 239. 
This is not very similar in appearance to any other ‘l'ropical or 
South African species. The flowers, according to Lugard, are 
brownish-yellow. 
. EUPHORBIACEAE, 
Euphorbia kwebensis, V. E. Br. Annua, ramosa, glabra. Folia 
la 
jin, broad, linear or narrowly linear-oblong, obtuse and minutely 
