Loranthtis.'] cxix. loranthace^ (sprague). 281 



2-lipped with a small ventral lobe, dorsal margin J-1 lin. long, umbonate 

 or obtusely keeled, ventral margin J- J lin. long. Receptacle and calyx 

 together cupular or suburceolate, 2^2J lin. long. Calyx deeply lobed, 

 |-J lin. long. Corolla about 1 J in. long ; tube 2J-3 (more rarely 5) lin. 

 long, with 5 ascending membranous flaps inserted on the adnate part 

 of the filaments about 1 lin, above the base of the tube, flaps broadly 

 ovate or oblong, rounded, f lin. long, |-| lin. broad at the base ; lobes 

 oblanceolate-linear, broadened into the base, about IJ in. long, with 

 about 5 oblique folds arising on each side of the adnate filaments, 

 the lowermost 1 lin. of each lobe reduplicate-valvate, thus forming 

 5 gibbosities in bud. Filaments inserted oj— 4 lin. above the base of the 

 corolla-lobes, 5 lin. long; anthers linear, 4-4^ lin. long. Disc about 

 J lin. deep. Stigma ovoid, hardly | lin. long. — Oliv. in Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. xxix. 80; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 198; Engl, in Engl. 

 Jahrb. xx. 180; Penzig in Atti Congr. Bot. Genova, 1892, 858; 

 Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. ii. 151 ; Pax in Engl. Jahrb. 

 xxxix. 616. L. gibbosulns, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, i. 842. L.lcEtuSy 

 R. Br. in Salt, Abyss. App. 64, name only. L. venastus, Fenzl ex 

 Van Tiegh. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xlii. 258, name only. Tapino- 

 stemma Acacice, Van Tiegh. I.e. 2\ gibbosidum, Van Tiegh. I.e. T, 

 venustum, Van Tiegh. I.e. 



Nile Iiand. Eritrea: various localities, 4300-7300 ft., Schweinf uri h , 183! 

 651, 791, 1218; Schiveinfurth ^ Riva, 719! 799! 929! 1169! Beccari, 14! 

 Penzifj. Abyssinia: near Adowa, Schimper, 256! Sanien ; by the Ataba Kiver, 

 near Abena, Sfeudner, 171 ! Slialiagenne, 5500 ft., Schimper, 820 ! Amhara ; liida, 

 Dildi, 5500-6000 ft., on Acacia Seyal, Delile, Boscn. Sudan: White Nile; near 

 Gebeleni, Broun, 43! Njemati, Schweinf urth, 1027! Blue Nile; near Wad-el- 

 Gazal, on Acacia Seyal, Uelile, Muriel, L 14 ! ^Ethiopia, Kotschy^ 57 ! 286 ! 

 Kordofan; Melbes, Ifund, 310! Kotschy, 23! Darfur : Surutj District; Wadi 

 Hasc'haba, Ffund, 783 ! Uganda: Nile banks, between 2° and 9° N. hit., generally 

 parasitic on Acacia Seyal, Delile, Grant I 



In Eritrea, according to Schweinfurth (I.e.), L. Acacia grows pi'incipally on 

 sipccies oi Acacia — e.y., A.ethaica,i:^ch\\emt. — but is also parasitic on trees belonging 

 to the jnost widely separated orders. 



17. L. numxnulariaefolius, ^rancA. in Joiirn. cleBot. i. 185, in obs. 

 Glabrous, glaucous-pruinose. Branchlets slender, fuscous. Leaves 

 subopposite, sessile, small, orbicular or broadly ovate, cordate and 

 amplexicaul at the base, thick. Pedicels short ; bract obliquely cupular, 

 obscurely trilobed, the middle lobe larger than the lateral ones, rounded. 

 Calyx very short, truncate. Corolla over 1 in. long, reddish, glabrous, 

 " divided to a fourth part " (? from the base) ; lobes linear, narrowly 

 spathulate, reflexed about the middle. Filaments glabrous ; anthers 

 linear, adnate, connective slightly produced above the cells, obtuse. — 

 Tapinostemma nummularil/olium, Van Tiegh. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, 

 xlii. 258. 



Wile land. Italian Somaliland : Modie Valley, Beroil. 



Known to me only from Franchet's very imperfect description. As Van Tiogliem 

 has placed it in the genus Tapinostemma, it is probably allied to L. Acacia:. 



