Zoranthus.] cxix. loranthace^ (sprague). 291 



nfozamb. Blstr. German East Africa: Uhehe; Matauana Plateau, on 

 Berlinia JEminii, Harms, Ooetze, 742 ! 



36. Ij. crassicauliSy Engl, in Comptes-rendus Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxix. 

 30, emend. Branchlets stout, smooth, glabrous, greenish-yellow, with very- 

 prominent nodes, 1 J-l| lin. in diam. near the apex. Leaves alternate, 

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

 base, 3J-4J in. long, 2J-2J in. broad, thickly coriaceous, glabrous, dull, 

 minutely corrugated, margin cartilaginous, undulate; midrib slightly 

 impressed on the upper surface, very prominent on the lower ; lateral 

 nerves 8-0 on each side, spreading or patulous, anastomosing far from 

 the margin, slightly raised on both surfaces ; petiole stout, enlarged at 

 the base, 3J-6 lin. long. Umbels 4-5-flowered ; peduncle 1-1^? lin. 

 long at the time of fruiting ; pedicels J lin. long, densely rusty-pilose ; 

 bract broadly ovate, very concave, hardly \ lin. long, densely rusty- 

 pilose outside. Receptacle cupular, nearly 1 lin. long, rusty-pilose. 

 Calyx about J lin. long, subtruncate. Corolla 1-lj in. long in bud, 

 stellate-puberulous outside, basal swelling ellipsoid, ribbed, 1-1 J lin. 

 long, apical swelling ellipsoid, l^lin. long; tube narrowly funnel-shaped, 

 glandular inside ; lobes erect, spathulate, apical enlargement ovate 

 acute, 1 lin. long, f lin. broad. Anthers elliptic-oblong, hardly J lin. 

 long. Disc sunk, about \ lin. high, 5-lobed, minutely rusty-pilose on 

 the inner surface.— De Wild. & Th. Dur. Reliq. Dew^vr. 200 ; De Wild. 

 Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, i. 29. 



liO'virer Guinea. Lower Congo : Mayombe District ; near Sliinganga, Dewevre, 

 278 ! Stanley Pool District; Kimuenza, Gillei, 2036 ! 



Engler included under his L. crassicaulis two distinct species, one of which 

 (Dewevre, 278) belongs to the section JRufescentes, and the other (Demeuse, 

 119) to the section Constrictiflori. Demeuse, 119, was subsequently by some 

 mistake distributed as L. Demeusei ; and De Wildeman, recognising that it had 

 nothing to do with L. Demeusei, and apparently unawaie that it formed part of 

 Engler's L. crasHcaulis, described it as a new species, L. hrazzavillensis (Comptes- 

 rendus Soc. Pot. Belg. xxxix. 102). Demeuse, 119, having been made the type of a 

 new species, the name L. crassicaulis must be applied to Dewevre, 278, although 

 Engler's description applies mainly to the former. 



37. L. rufescens, DC. Prodr. iv. 303. Branches terete, slightly 

 compressed towards the apex. Leaves petioled, rusty-pubescent in a 

 young state, elliptic, obtuse at the apex and base, coriaceous. Umbels 

 1-3 in each axil, rusty-pubescent, 2-3-flowered ; peduncle shorter than 

 the petiole ; bract oblong. Receptacle and calyx together urceolate, trun- 

 cate. Corolla in bud 3 lin. long, pentagonal at the apex. Berry ovoid. 

 — Septimetida rvfescens. Van Tiegh. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xlii. 26G. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia : near Nghianga, Leprieur ^ Perrottet. 

 Known to me only from A. P. De Candolle's very brief description. 



38. L. Baumii, Engl, d- Gilg in Warb. Kunene-Samh. Exped. 

 228. Young branchlets subterete, rather stout, densely rusty-tomen- 

 tose with verticillate-branched hairs. Leaves opposite, ovate or ovate- 

 oblong, rounded or more rarely subacute at the apex, rounded at the 



