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whereas it is clear from tlie figure of Lichtensieinia oleaefolio 

 which he cannot have seen— that it belongs to the latter. There 

 can be no doubt that it is conspeciflc wath L. namaquensis, Harv. 

 Apart from the style, which is represented as filiform instead of 

 skittle-shaped, the figure of Lichtensteinia oleaefolia agrees with 

 Loranthus namaquensis : the shape and indumentum of the 

 corolla, the shape and size of the corolla-lobes and anthers, and 

 the union of the filaments definitely preclude identification with 

 L, elegans. The indumentum of the corolla of Lichtensteinia 

 oleaefolia (fig. e) agrees with Burchell's n. 1468, from the Prieska 

 Division. The synonymy and distribution of the two species may 

 now be stated as follows : 



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1. Loranthus oleaefolius, Cham. Sf Schlecht. in Linnacea, 

 ol. iii. p. 209 (1828); DC. Prodr, vol. iv. p. 304; Schultes, Syst. 

 Veg. vol. vii. p. 1634; E. Meyer in Drege, Zwei Pfl. Docum. pp. 92 

 (III. B. 8), 96 (III. C. 6). lAchtensteinia oleaefolia, Wendl. Coll. 

 PI. vol. ii. p. 4, t. 39 (1810). Loranthus speciosus, F. G. Dietr. 

 Lexik. Gaertn. Nachtr. vol. iv. p. 473 (1818). L. Liclitensteinii , 

 Herb. Willd. ex. Cham. & Schlecht. in Linnaea, vol. iii. p. 209 

 (1828), in syn. L. Meyeri, Presl. Bot. Bemerk. p. 76 (1844), nomen. 

 L. namaqtiensis, Harv.- in Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. vol. ii. p. 577 

 (1862); Sprague in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vol. vi. sect. 1, p. 361. 

 L. bumhensis, Hiern in Cat. Afr. PL Welw. vol. i. p. 933 (1900). 

 Tapmanthus namaquensis. Van Tiegh, in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, 

 vol. xlii. p. 267 (1895). 



DisTEiB. Angola,' German South-Wcst Africa, Rhodesia, 

 Bechuanaland, Ngamiland, Little Namaqualand, Little Bushman- 

 land, Prieska Division, Transvaal. 



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elegans, Cham. 4- Schlecht in Lii 

 Bge in Linnaea, vol. xix. p. 663. M 



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A. Sprengel, Tent. Suppl. Syst. Veg. p. 9 (1828); Griesselich in 

 Lmnaea, vol. v. p. 421. Loranthus Schlechtendalianus, Schultes, 

 Syst. Veg. vol. vii. p. 1635 (1830), L. croceus, E. Meyer in Drege, 

 Zwei_ Pfl. Docum. p. 200 (1843), nomen. L. glaucus, DC. Prodr. 

 yol- IV. p. 303, non Thunb. L. glaucus, var. Burchellii, DC. I.e. 

 (1830). L. oleaefolius, Eckl. & Zeyh, Enum. p. 358; Harv. in 

 Hai-v & Sond. Fl. Cap. vol. ii. p. 576; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. 

 11. vol. 111. p. 209; Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. vol. xx. p. 83; Engl. & 

 Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. vol. iii. 1, p. 187, t. 126, fig. L— N ; non 



iSl' Schlecht. L. oleiJoUus, Marloth, Fl. S. Afr. vol. i. 

 p. 167, t. 38, fig. A. L. speciosus, Engl, in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. 

 Pilanzenfam. Kachtr. i. p. 131, non F. G. Dietr. Lichtensteinia 

 elegans, \an Tiegh. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, vol. xlii. p. 254 

 (1895). L. speciosa. Van Tiegh., I.e. 



DisTEiB. Cape Colony : Divisions of Clanwilliam, Worcester, 

 Prince Albert Murraysburg, Graaff Reinet, Somerset, Queens- 

 town, Cathcart, Komgha, Albany, Alexandria, TJitenhage. 



THE SECTIONS OF LORANTHUS. 



The erroneous identification of Lichtensteinia oleaefolia with 

 Loranthus elegans has led to the generic and serial names Lichten- 



