280 cxix. LORANTHACE.E (sprague). [^Lorauthus. 



Umbels 8-flowered, solitary or 2-4 together ; peduncle 2-2 J lin . long, 

 hardly longer than the pedicels ; bract deltoid-cupular, acute, ciliate, 

 umbonate on the back. Flowers reddish, about 1 in. long. Calyx 

 spreading. Anthers very shortly bidentate at the apex. — Flicosepalits 

 Fauroti, Van Tiegh. in Bull. 8oc. Bot. France, xli. 504, 540. 



wile Iiand. Somaliland, at the wells of Merayn, Reioil. 



Also in Arabia. 



Perhaps a mere form of L. cvrriflorus. I have seen no specimen. 



15. L. kalachariensis, ASc/mic 2)6 Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. iii. 53 

 (181H)). Branchlets slightly lenticellate, glabrous. Leaves opposite or 

 alternate, oblong, oblong-linear or linear, rounded at the apex, cuneate, 

 obtuse or rounded at the base, IJ-SJ in. long, 5-10 lin. broad^ rigidly 

 coriaceous, glabrous, 3-5-nerved ; petiole \-'2\ lin. long. IJmbels 

 solitary or fascicled, sessile or peduncled, 2-G-fiowered ; peduncle up to 

 '') lin. long ; pedicels 5-6 lin. long; bract saucer-shaped with an ovate 

 ^r oblong limb, dorsal margin |-1J lin. long, strongly umbonate or 

 keeled, ventral margin ^lin. long. Keceptacle obconical, 2-3 lin. long. 

 €)alyx ascending, -J-| lin. long. Petals 2J in. long or less, reflexed 

 below the middle, coiling into loose spirals, much broadened into the 

 base, middle part linear, upper part linear-oblanceolate, basal part with 

 4-8 (usually 5) pairs of oblique folds arising from the adnate part of 

 the filament. Filaments inserted 3i-ll lin. above the base of the 

 petals, about 1 in. long, tapering slightly upwards ; anthers linear, 

 3J-7 lin. long. Stigma capitate, | lin. in diam. — L. Fleckii^ Schinz, I.e. 

 L. Fentheri, Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 37G. L. Dinteri, Schinz in 

 Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2me ser. i. 869 (1901). L. splendens, N. E. Br. 

 in Kew Bulletin, 1909, 136. L. cvrviforus, Schinz, PI. Menyharth. 

 42 ; Pcendle in Journ. Bot. 1905, 52 ; not of Benth. 



Xiower Guinea. Angola : Benguella, Gossweiler, 1693 ! on the Kutelii Kiver, 

 on Bnrkea africana. Hook., Gossweiler, 3951 ! German South-west Africa : Here- 

 roland; between Ubibaiid ModderJontein, FlecTi, 416 ! Pot Mine, FU^ck, 40-i! Koiras, 

 Fleck, 1071 Windlioek, Uinfer, 306! (irootfontein, Ditifer, 698! 



Mozamb. Dlstr. Portuguese East Africa : Jip-wer Zambesi ; Boruma, 3Ieni/- 

 /iart/i,9-W\ Hritish Central Africa : Nvasaland ; 'Na.wms'i, Cameron, ^ I Rhodesia; 

 Buluwayo, Kolhe, 3184! Sand, 392! cfwbh, 313 1 Fi/les, 78! Tuli Kiver, Penther, 

 1626! "^NuaniiUmd : Lake Ngami, Fleck, 314a! Okavango XoWey, Lvgard, 2321 

 Fleck, 307 ! 



Usually parasitic on Acacia horrida, Willd.; also on a Fiiphorbia (Fleck, 416). 



16. L. Acaciae, Zucc. PI. Xov. 249, «. 2,Jicj. 3 (1837-43). Young 

 branchlets slender, smooth, glabrous, brownish, slightly glossy, older 

 ones more or less rugose, lenticellate. Leaves opposite or suboppo- 

 site, straight or slightly arcuate, oblong, elliptic-oblong or lanceolate- 

 oblong, obtuse or rounded at the apex, cuneate or obtuse at the base, 

 lj-4i in. long, 4-15 lin. broad, rigidly coriaceous, glabrous, 3-5-nerved ; 

 petioles 1-5 lin. long. Umbels axillary, solitary or fascicled, 2-flowered ; 

 peduncle 1-2 lin. long ; pedicels 2-6 lin. long ; bract saucer-shaped, 

 with a shortly ovate or oblong subtruncate dorsal lobe, sometimes 



