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CXIX. LORANTHACE.t: (SPRAGUE). 



l^Loranthiis. 



Ajucal swelling oblong or 

 ovoid-oblong. 

 Leaves cordate at the base . 

 Leaves not cordate at the 

 base. 

 Leaves acute ; lateral 

 nerves hardly visible . 

 Leaves obtuse or rounded; 

 lateral nerves distinct . 

 Corolla more or less pilose outside. 



Buds distinctly truncate or depressed-truncate. 

 Peduncle with an apical cup-shaped depression 

 round which the flowers arise in a circle. 

 Leaves sessile ...... 



Leaves petioled ...... 



Peduncle without an apical cup. 



Calyx suberect, about as broad as the recep- 

 tacle ....... 



Calyx patulous, much broader than the recep- 

 tacle. 

 Leaves ovate-oblong or lanceolate 

 Leaves broadly ovate or elliptic 

 Buds not distinctly truncate. 

 Loaves pubescent or puberulous. 



Leaves densely pubescent . . . . 



Leaves puberulous . . . . . 



Leaves glabrous, or at most the nerves pilose. 

 Corolla villous ...... 



Corolla shortly pilose. 



Apical swelling of the bud obtusely penta- 

 gonal or subterete. 

 Young branchlets coarsely and densely 



rusty-pilose ; leaves 2|~4 in. lonar 

 Young branchlets very minutely })ilose 

 or glabrous ; leaves \-'2.\ in. long. 

 Leaves sessile, broadly ovate, deeply 



CQi'date at the base 

 Leaves usually petioled, elliptic or 

 ovate to lanceolate or oblanceolate, 

 cuneate, obtuse or rounded at the 

 base (very rarely subcordate) 

 Apical swelling of the bud narrowly 5- 

 winged or conspicuously ribbed 



Imperfectly known species of this section 



145. L. kisanfti.ei: 



146. 



147. 



L. hrazzai'illevsis. 

 L. lanceolaius. 



149. 

 150. 



L. Warneckei. 

 L. truncaivs. 



\ 



151. L. tsehintschochensis. 



152. 

 153. 



154. 

 155. 



L. Buvumce. 

 L. Buchneri. 



L. mullissunus. 

 L. malacophyllus. 



156. L. erianthus. 



157. X. MechotCi 



158. L. (jlaucophyllus. 



159. L. namaqvensis. 



160. 

 (148. 

 U61. 



L. tjuinquangiilus. 

 L. sessilifoliiis . 

 L. Thonningii. 



27. Erectilobi. Umbels or heads axillary, solitary or fascicled, several- 

 floioered ; bract cupular or unilaterally developed from a cvpidar or saucer-shaped 

 base. Calyx with or withotd an intramarginal ring. Corolla in hud with a 

 distinct apical swelling; tube split nnilaterally, with a distinct basal swelling; 

 lobes much shorter than the tube, erect. Filaments defexed or infexed, tapering 

 vptvards, sometimes thickened at the apex, produced into a tooth in front of the 

 anther. Anthers oblong or linear, not transversely divided. Disc annular. Style 

 skittle-shaped; stigma capitate. — Tapinanthu.s, Van Tiegh. in Bull. Soc. Bot . 

 France, xlii. 267, partly. 



