278 cxix. LORANTHACiLE (sprague). [Lorantkus. 



visible on the lower. Umbels 12-18-flowered ; peduncle about J in. 

 long ; pedicels 1-1 J lin. long; bract ovate-cupular, dorsal margin J lin. 

 long, ventral margin | lin. long. Receptacle and calyx together sub- 

 cylindric, the former j lin. long. Calyx cupular, | lin. long, shortly 

 and irregularly 4-lobed ; lobes subtruncate or emarginate. Corolla 

 rounded at the apex in bud, carmine-red ; petals narrowly linear, 

 Ij-li^ in. long, I lin. broad near the middle, J-| lin. broad near the 

 base, ventral flap inserted about 1| lin. above the base, J-| lin. long, 

 emarginate or subtruncate. Stamens inserted H-SJ lin. above the base 

 of the petals ; filaments linear, 5 lin. long, grooved ; anthers very 

 narrowly linear, 2-8 lin. long. Disc J-^ lin. high. 



Upper Guinea. C:imeroons : on islands in the Mbiave Rapids, Zenker, 

 3406 ! 



11. L. undulatus, E. Meyer in Drege, Zwei Pfl. Docum. 200, name 

 only. Branchlets slender, patulous, rather nodose, inconspicuously 

 lenticellate, glabrous. Leaves opposite, sessile, linear-oblong, ovate- 

 oblong, ovate or suborbicular, obtuse or rounded at the apex, cordate 

 at the base, \-'2 in. long, 2^-11 lin. broad, coriaceous, glabrous, faintly 

 3-nerved. Umbels terminating leafy short-shoots, 2-flowered ; peduncle 

 lJ-3 lin. long; pedicels stout, 2-3 lin. long; bract unilateral, broadly 

 oblong or ovate-oblong, truncate, J-lJ lin. long, thickly keeled, ciliate 

 above. Receptacle obconical, 4-5 lin. long. Calyx ascending, |-| lin. 

 long. Petals about 1| in. long, subspathulate-linear above, obtuse, 

 lJ-1^- lin. broad, |-| lin. broad in the middle, 1J-2J lin. broad 

 in the lower third, with 4 pairs of oblique folds arising from the adnate 

 part of the filament. Filaments inserted 4 lin. above the base of the 

 petals. Style with a double bend shortly above the base, minutely 

 pilose above ; stigma depressed-capitate, | lin. in diam. — Harv. in 

 Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. ii. 577; Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 130; 

 Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. iii. 54. Plicosepalits undulatita, 

 Yan Tiegh. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xli. 504, 540. 



£ower Guinea. German South-west Africa : Amboland ; South-east Ondonga, 

 at Grootfontein, Schinz, 283! Hereroland, Nels ! 



Also in South Africa. 



12. Li. sagittifoliuS) Sprague, Branchlets slender, spreading, 

 lenticellate, glabrous. Leaves opposite, sessile, some elliptic, obovate- 

 elliptic or elliptic-oblong, rounded at the apex, obtuse, rounded or 

 subcordate at the base, J-lJ in. long, 4-14 lin. broad, thinly coria- 

 ceous, glabrous, 3-5-nerved, nerves very oblique, slightly raised, 

 others ovate-oblong or narrowly oblong, obtuse or rounded at the 

 apex, sagittate at the base, J-lJ in. long, 3-4 lin. broad. Umbels 

 solitary, 3-5-flowered, usually leafy at the base ; peduncle 2 J-5 lin. 

 long ; pedicels slender, 2J-4 lin. long ; bract saucer-shaped with a 

 shortly ovate dorsal lobe, strongly and acutely umbonate, umbo J-f 

 lin. long, dorsal margin J lin. long, ventral margin \ lin. long. 

 Receptacle cupular, IJ-lJ lin. long. Calyx patulous, f lin. long. 

 Petals IJ-lf in. long or more, oblanceolate-linear above, subacute. 



