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Frutex multiramosus, ramulis junioribus pubescentibus vel tomen- 
tellis. Rami breves, flexuosi, glabri, subtiliter rugosi, inconspicue 
lenticellati ; internodia 1°2-3°7 cm. longa. Folia opposita, sessilia 
vel breviter petiolata, elliptica, elliptico-oblonga vel ovato-elliptica, 
apice rotundata, basi rotundata vel subcordata, 1°8-3°4 em. longa, 
1°2-2°5 cm. lata, tenuiter coriacea, grosse stellato-pubescentia 
praesertim subtus, supra tandem plus minusve glabrescentia ; petioli 
usque ad 6 mm. longi. Capitula solitaria, axillaria vel ramulos 
valde contractos foliatos axillares terminantia, 3-4-flora; pedun- 
culus 6-16 mm, longus, tomentellus ; bractea foliacea, late ovata, 
9-14 mm. longa, 6-11 mm. lata, utrinque tomentella. Torus 
calycecum cupularis, 1°8 mm. longus, inferne cingulo denso villorum 
circiter 2°5 mm. longo, superne sparse breviter villosus. Caly« sub- 
truncatus, ciliatus, 3-3°4 mm. longus. Corolla 4°5 em. longa ; tubus 
1*4-1°5 cm. longus, ampulla basali clavata 5 mm. longa inferne sub- 
glabra superne dense villosa; lobi 2°5-3'2 em. longi. Filamenta 
5°5-6 mm. supra basin corollae loborum inserta, 1°7-1°8 cm. longa ; 
antherae lineares, 4 mm. longae, biapiculatae. Déseus 5-lobus, 
‘> mm, altus, carnosus. 
Tropical Arrica. Nyasaland: Nyika Plateau, MeClounie, 
lll 
1224, Loranthus (Hirsuti) alveatus, Sprague in Dyer Fl. Trop. 
Afr. vol, vi. sect. 1, p. 315, anglice [ Loranthaceae-Kulorantheae] ; 
foliis obovato-oblongis basi cuneatis vel obtusis glabris, bracteis 
. foliaceis distinctus. 
0°25 mm. altus, 
ingl. in Engl. 
Jahrb. vol. xx. p. 104, partim. 
TROPICAL go German East Africa: Usambara; Doda, 
Holst, 2946. 
1225. Loranthus (Hirsuti) lindensis, Sprague in Dyer, Fl. Trop. 
Afr. vol. vi. sect. 1, p. 316, anglice [Loranthaceae-Eulorantheae] ; 
affinis L. alveato, Sprague, a quo foliis ovato-ellipticis vel ellipticis 
basi cordatis vel rotundatis recedit. ec 
Ramuli longi, recti, penduli, graciles, vix ultra 2 mm. dametro 
30 cm. infra apicem, primum ferrugineo-pubescentes, _ lati 2 
stellato-puberuli, tandem glabri, subtiliter densiuscule lenticellati ; 
nodi satis conspicui; internodia 1-8-4 cm. lenga. Folia opponies 
breviter petiolata, elliptica vel ovato-elliptica, apice rotundata, basi 
