Loranthus.] cxix. loranthace^ (sprAgue). 279 



|_| lin. broad, under J lin. broad at the middle, much broadened 

 downwards from 2 lin. below the insertion of the filaments, about 

 1^ lin. broad near the base, with 4-6 pairs of oblique folds arising 

 from the adnate part of the filament. Filaments inserted 3J-7 lin. 

 above the base of the petals, 9-10 lin. long, flattened, tapering slightly 

 upwards ; anthers linear, 4J-5 lin. loug, tapering slightly downwards. 

 Style without a double bend near the base ; stigma capitate, J lin. in 

 diam. — L. mtdulatus, var. sagitkefolius, Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 1G7, 

 t. 18, figs. A-C ; Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 304. 



Xlle Iiand. Britisli East Africa : parasitic on many trees in the coast districts, 

 Battiscomhe, 162 ! Kibwezi, on Leguminosae, Scheffler^ 338 1 Kapte Plains, Gregory ! 

 Gondeona, on tl»e Umba River, Kdasner, 116 ! 



SSozamb. Dlstr. German East Africa : Usambara ; Gombelo, Hoist, 2173 ! 

 Masheua, Hoist, 8835 ! Muoa, Hoist, 3103 ! Kilimanjaro Region ; Lake Jalla, 

 Volketis, 337 ! Usafua ; lower slopes of Poroto Monntain, 5600 ft., on Acacia sp., 

 Goetze, 1038. 



13. Ij. curviflorus, Benth. ex Oliv. in Hook. Ic. PL t. 1304. 

 Branches spreading ; branchlets slender, more or less nodose, glabrous, 

 soon lenticellate. Leaves opposite, subopposite or alternate, linear, 

 oblanceolate-linear or oblanceolate (more rarely obovate-oblong), obtuse 

 or rounded at the apex, cuneate at the base, |-2J in. long, 2-5 lin. 

 broad, rigidly coriaceous, glabrous, 3-5-nerved, nerves indistinct or 

 hidden ; petiole ^-1 lin. long. Umbels solitary, 4-6 -flowered ; 

 peduncle l-o lin. long; pedicels 2-4 lin. long; bract elliptic-cupular 

 or ovate-cupular, dorsal margin | lin. long, lateral J lin., ventral 

 ^-| lin. long, more rarely saucer-shaped with a small dorsal lobe, 

 conspicuously umbonate, umbo obtuse or horned. Receptacle cam- 

 panulate or urceolate, H-lJ lin. long. Calyx patulous, ^-| lin. long. 

 Petals 1| in. loni,^, reflexed above the middle, with 4-8 (usually 5) pairs 

 of oblique folds arising from the adnate part of the filament. Fila- 

 ments inserted 4-5 lin. above the base of the petals, 6-10 lin. long; 

 anthers linear, slightly tapering downwards, 4-5 lin. long. Style 

 broadened into the stigma in the uppermost IJ-IJ lin. ; stigma depressed- 

 capitate, f-i lin. in diam. — Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 130 ; Engl. Pfl. 

 Ost-Afr. C.167 ; Schweinf. et V^olk. in Ghika, Pays des Somalis, 200 ; 

 Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. ii. 150. Plicosepalns curvi- 



Jlorus, Van Tiegh. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xli. 504, 540. 



Nile Kand. Nubia; coiist region. Bent! Eritrea: Faracb Mountain, near 

 Ailet, 1700 ft., S chive iiifurth, 450; Aigede Valley, below Aidereto, 4300 ft., 

 Schiveinfurth, 1836. Abyssinia, Flowdeii ! Somaliland : Golis Range, Drake- 

 Brockman, 193! 195! 197! Burka Region, OhLka ; Rrava (Barava), Kirk! 

 Habrawal; Anin, Doiiahlson- Smith ! 



Mozamb. Dlstr. German East Africa : Usambara ; Dodn, Hoist, 2936 ! 

 Amboni, Hoist, 2726 ! Nyika Country, Wakefield ! 



Also in Arabia. 



14. L. Fauroti, Franch. in Journ. de Bot. i. 135. Branches virgate, 

 bark dirty-grey, lenticellate. Leaves shortly petioled, linear.oblong, 

 obtuse, hardly more than 1 in. long, arising from the older nodes. 



