286 cxix. LORANTHACE^ (sprague). [Lorantkus, 



split unilaterally down to the middle, rusty-villous-tomentose outside 

 with verticillate -branched hairs ; tube glandular within, basal swelling 

 2J-4 lin. long, ellipsoid or ovoid ; lobes erect, spathulate, oJ-G lin. 

 long, J-lJ lin. broad. Stamens inserted J-J lin. above the base of the 

 corolla-lobes ; filaments 3-o J lin. long, tapering upwards ; anthers 

 elliptic-oblong, l-lj lin. long ; cells about 5 in each vertical row. Disc 

 pentagonal, shortly rusty-pilose at least on the angles. Style skittle- 

 shaped above, neck |-1 lin. long. — Z. riibiginosus, De Wild. Etudes 

 Fi. Katanga, 173. L. I'ubiginosus, var. grandijlorus, De Wild. I.e. 17-4. 



Soutb Central. Belgian Congo : Katanga, Cornet ! near Lake Moero, Verdick f 

 The same specimen tippeiu-s to have served as tlie type of L. Cometii, A. Dewevre, 

 and of Zi. nihiginosus, vat. r/randiflorns^ De Wild. It is accompanied by a pencil 

 note in Dewevre's handwriting, but appears never to have been written up by him 

 as the type of L. Cometii. On incorporation in the Hrn«sels Herbarium after 

 Dewevre's death it was labelled as collected by Captain Descamps. 



27. la. macrosolen, Steud. ex A. Rich. Tent. Ft. Abyss, i. 340. 

 Youngest branchlets rusty-pubescent, soon becoming puberulous. 

 Leaven linear-lanceolate, straight or slightly falcate, narrowed to both 

 ends, apex obtuse, base acute, 3-7^ in. lon^, ^-1 in, broad, stellate- 

 pubescent in a young state, soon glabrous; petiole 5-10 lin. long. 

 Umbels 2 or more fascicled in each axil, 4-6-flowered, rusty-pubescent ; 

 peduncle 2-3 lin. long; pedicels IJ-IJ- lin, long; bract erect, oblong- 

 lanceolate or oblong, obtuse, IJ lin, long, tomentellous within above 

 the middle. Receptacle about 1 J lin. long. Calyx |-| lin. long, bent 

 outwards, at first subtruncate, afterwards distinctly 5-lobed, lobes 

 triangular. Buds ribbed above. Corolla 2J-2J in, long, puberulous 

 outside with minute rusty-stellate hairs, basal swelling inconspicuous, 

 3 lin. long; lobes erect, spathulate, 7J-7| lin, long. Filaments 5 lin. 

 long, quadrangular, angles ribbed, dorsal surface flat, ventral and 

 lateral surfaces slightly concave, ribs glandular, the two ventral ones 

 approximating towards the base; anthers oblong, IJ-lJ lin. long; 

 cells about 7 in each vertical row. Disc small, sunk, 5-lobed, glabrous. 

 Style glabrous, skittle-shaped above, neck 1 lin. long ; stigma capitate, 

 I lin, in diam. Berry ellipsoid, 7-8 lin. long. — Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. 

 XX. 82, 81); Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr, 197; Engl, .t Prantl, Pflanzen- 

 fam. Nachtr. i, 132, Septimetula macrosolen^ Van Tiegh. in Bull. Soc. 

 Bot, France, xlii. '2^Q. 



JTlle Ziand. Abyssinia : Samen ; Shoata, Schimper, 529 ! 1288 ! Begemeder ; 

 Ouilla, near Gafat, Schimper, 1490 ! 



28. L. dschallensis, Fngl Pji. Ost-Afr. C. 166. Young branch- 

 lets shortly rusty-tomentose, adult ones puberulous, flowering branches 

 3-4 lin, in diam. ; internodes l|-2 lin. long on the youngest branchlets, 

 f in. long or less on older ones. Leaves crowded, irregularly ternate, 

 decussate, straight or more or less falcate, linear-lanceolate, gradually 

 narrowed into the petiole, obtuse or rounded at the apex,' 2-3^ lin, long, 

 4-7 lin. broad, coriaceous, in a young state rusty or fulvous-tomen- 

 tellous with short much-branched hairs, soon glabrous, dull ; petiole 2-3 J 



