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Ramuli graciles, glabri, dense lenticellati, purpureo-brunnei vel 
pallidi. Folia opposita, subsessilia vel breviter petiolata, lanceolata 
vel elliptico-lanceolata, recta vel subarcuata, apice obtusissima vel 
subacuta, basi cuneata, 3°2-4°4 cm. longa, 0°8-1°6 em. lata, char- 
tacea, glabra, paullo supra basin distincte trinervia ; petioli usque 
ad 2 mm. longi, glabri. Unmbellae solitariaec, 4-6-tlorae ; pedun- 
culus 1-5-2 mm. longus, glaber ; pedicelli 3 mm. longi, glabri ; 
bractea e basi cupulari elliptica, ciliata, extus glabra, margine 
dorsali 1°3 mm, longo inferne umbonato, margine ventrali 0°25—-0°35 
mm. longo. Torus circiter 1 mm. longus. Calyx subtruncatus, 
ciliatus, 0°35 mm, longus. Corolla pallide viridis, vix 1°2 cm. 
longa, in alabastro tetragona ; tubus 3 mm. longus ; lobi lineares, 
sursum ampliati, 7 mm. longi. Filamenta basi corollae loborum 
inserta, 4°5.mm. longa, linearia, dente 0°13-0'17 mm. longo ; antherae 
Pa 3 mm. longae. Discus leviter obtuse 4-lobatus, 0°4 mm. 
altus. 
TropicaL Arrica. German East Africa: Dar-es-Salam, 
Kirk ; Holtz, 553 ; Stuhlmann, 7614, 7666, 7667, 7673, 7790. 
1252. Loranthus (Ischnanthus) ramulosus, Sprague in Dyer, FI. 
Trop. Afr. vol. vi. sect. 1, p. 386, anglice, ined. [ Loranthaceae- 
Eulorantheae] ; affinis L. Schlechteri, Engl., a quo antheris longi- 
oribus recedit. 
Planta ramosa, ramulis brevibus juventute minute puberulis 
demum glabris. Folia opposita, suborbicularia, elliptica, elliptico- 
oblonga vel lanceolata, apice obtusa vel subacuta, basi obtusa vel 
rotundata, 0°6-2°5 cm. longa, 5-9 mm. lata, tenuiter coriacea, 
glabra ; nervi laterales valde obliqui, utrinque 2-3 ; petioli 0°5-1 
mm. longi. Umbellaz solitariae, 4-florae; pedunculus 2-2°5 mm. 
longus, apice excepto glaber ; pedicelli 2-2°5 mm. longi, tetragonl, 
glabri, in cavis paullo profundis ciliatis inserti; bractea torum 
calycecum aequans, e basi cupulari anguste ovata, ciliata, extus 
sparse pilosa, margine dorsali 1°5 mm. longo, margine ventrali 
O'4 mm. longo. Torus 1-1°3 mm. longus. Calyx subtruncatus, 
ciliatus, 0°25-0°35 mm. longus. Corolla 2-2°2 cm. longa, in alabastro 
tetragona ; tubus oblongus, 4°3 mm. longus, haud fissus, papillarum 
vitta angusta a sinibus decurrente; lobi 1°7 cm. longi, lineares, 
sursum ampliati, infra 4 reflexi. Filamenta basi corollae loborum 
inserta, 8-9 mm. longa, sursum angustata, in basin valde ampliata, 
inferne leviter sulcata, basi minute papillata,dente subulato 0°8-1 
mm. longo; antherae lineares, 6-7 mm. longae. Discus leviter 
4-lobatus, 0°35 mm. altus. 
TroricaL Arrica. British East Africa: between Mombasa 
and Takaunga, Whyte : between Mombasa and Lamu, Whyte. 
_ 1253, Viscum (Ploionixia) decurrens, Baker ct Sprague in Dyer, 
Fl. Trop. Afr. vol. vi. sect. 1, p. 398, anglice, ined. [Loranthaceae- 
V isceae | ; species perdistincta internodiis superioribus conspicue 
applanatis ex apice ad basin angustatis, cymulis pedunculatis, 
petalis deciduis, bacca sessili. 
Caulis teres, circiter 4 mm. diametro 23—37 em. infra apicem 
ramulorum ; rami biangulati, plus minusve compressi ; ramuli valde 
compressi internodiis lnearibus deorsum leviter angustatis ;_ inter- 
nodia 2°5-5°5 em. longa. Folia subsessilia, anguste obovata vel 
obovato-oblonga’ usque oblanceolata, apice rotundata, in basin 
