183 
anguste cuneata, 2-5 cm. longa, 0°8-2 cm. lata, coriacea, glabra, 
distincte 3-nervia vel 5-nervia, subtiliter reticulata, nitidula ; petioli 
usque ad 2 mm. longi. Cymulae axillares et terminales, solitariae 
vel ternatae, pedunculatae, 3-florae, unisexuales. Flores monoici, 
tetrameri. Cymula mascula :—Pedunculus usque. ad 3°5 mm, longus, 
circiter 0°5 mm. ultra cupulam bractealem productus. Cupula 
bracteaks cymbiformis, 2°5 mm. longa, utrinque subapiculata. 
Alabastra ellipsoidea, 1°5 mm. longa. Flos 18 mm. longus, basi 
solida 0°35 mm. longa. Torus circiter 0°35 mm. longus. Petala 
ovata, circiter 1 mm. longa, 0°8-1 mm. lata. Antherae suborbicu- 
lares, 0°5 mm. diametro, vel ellipticae, 0°8 mm. longae, 0°5 mm. 
latae. Cymula feminea :—Pedunculus 4-6 mm. longus, ultra _cup- 
ulam bractealem plus minusve productus. Cupula bractealis minute 
ciliata, utrinque acuta, tandem crescentiformis lateraliter visa. 
Ges subcylindricus, in basin leviter angustatus, 1°5 mm. longus, 
diametro, vel compressus, 1 mm. latus, 0°8 mm. crassus, 
hiss Petala ovato-oblonga vel deltoideo-ovata, 0°7 mm. longa, 
0°5-0'7 mm. lata. Stigma supra insertionem petalorum 0°25—-0°3 
mm. prominens. Bucca juvenilis oblongo-ellipsoidea.— V. obscurum, 
var. os Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 132; De Wild. Etudes 
] 
7. 
TropicaL ArFrica. Lagos: Eppah, on Guttiferae, Barter, 
3314. Southern Nigeria: by the Old Calabar River, on Symphonia 
globulifera, Linn. f. , Mann, 2978. Gaboon: Munda; Siban nge Farm, 
Dinklage, 574 ; by t the Gaboon River, on Seniphonta globulifera, 
Linn. f. , Mann, 984. Lower Congo: near Léopoldville, a 
V. decurrens is apparently foen to V. nervosum, Hochst. V. 
obscurum, Thunb., a native of South Africa, has a sanaile inflor- 
escence and long-pedicelled berries. 
1254, Viscum _ ugandense, Sprague in Dyer, Fl. Trop. 
Afr. vol. vi. sect. 1, p. 405, sete ined. [Loranthaceae-Visceae] ; : 
affinis V. Engleri, ee Tiegh., et V. combreticolae, Engl., ab hoc 
forma cupulae bractealis, ab illo bacca sessili distinguitur. 
Frutex multiramosus. Rami ramulique conspicue applanati, in 
sicco costati; internodia linearia usque oblanceolata, taeniiformia, 
ee oe apice leviter constricta, in basin leviter angustata, 
1°6-5 longa, 3-7 mm. lata, ea ramorum principalium secus 
lineam mediadl valde incrassata. lores dioici, tetrameri. Inflor- 
escentiae masculae ex cymulis tribus trifloris (ravius bifloris) cupulis 
bractealibus dai ean pe sae Cupula bractealis sessilis, late 
alveata, : 5 mm. longa, 1°8 mm. lata; lobi patuli, rotundati, 1°8 
mm. lon Flos basi solida 0°25 mm. longa. Torus 1°3 mm. longus. 
Petala ieltoided- ovate 1°3 mm. longa, 1°2-1'4 mm. lata, apice 
leviter recurva. <Antherae ambitu dipsienMesgas 1°3-1°5 mm 
longae, 0°7-0°8 mm. latae. Inflorescentiae femineae ex floribus 1 vel 
3 cupulis bractealibus suffultis constantes. Cupula bractealis con- 
spicue biloba, 1°8-2 mm. alta ; lobi ascendentes vel suberecti, 1 mm. 
longi, sub anthesi torum superantes vel subaequantes. Torus 
obovoideo-oblongus, 1°3 mm. longus. Petala 1°3 mm. longa, decidua, 
- anguste triangularia, acuta, 0°8 mm. lata, alia deltoideo-ovata, 
mn. | asoee subsessile, 0°35-0°5 mm. supra insertionem 
talorum prominens. Bacca sessilis, late ee 6 mm. longa, 
laevis. V. dichotomum, Engl. Pflanzenw. Ost-Afr. C. p. 167; 
Rendle in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. vol. xxxvii. p. or; non 1. Don. 
