Loo'anfhus.] cxix. loranthace.e (sprague). 309 



long, broadened above; anthers linear, 2 J lin. long, biapiculate. Disc 

 i lin. high. Stigma ellipsoid, J lin. long. 



Mozamb. Blstr. German East Africa : without precise locality, Biisse, 

 1128! 



70. L. ulugurensis, Eiigl. in Engl. Jahrh. xxviii. 381. Young 

 branchlets and leaves villous-tomentose with rusty verticillate-branched 

 hairs ; branchlets about \\ lin. in diam. 1 ft. below the apex. Branches 

 yellowish-grey, lenticellate, 2J-3 lin. in diam. ; internodes 2-2J in. long. 

 Leaves opposite, oblong or ovate-oblong, more rarely elliptic, rounded 

 at the apex, deeply cordate at the base, 1J-2| in. long, 1-1 J in. broad, 

 thinly coriaceous, upper surface glabrescent, daik brown in a dried 

 state, lower surface coarsely rusty-pubescent with verticillate-branched 

 hairs ; lateral nerves hardly visible ; midrib prominent on the lower 

 surface, tomentose ; petiole about 3 lin. long, rusty-tomentose with 

 verticillate-branched hairs. Heads axillary, 4-flowered ; peduncle 

 about 1 lin. long, rusty-tomentose, villous at the apex ; bract sub- 

 foliaceous, trough-shaped, 4 J lin. long, l|-2 lin. broad when flattened 

 out, glabrous inside near the base, elsewhere fulvous-tomentellous 

 with verticillate-branched hairs. Receptacle and calyx together 

 narrowly cupular, almost 1 lin. long ; receptacle very densely villous 

 with red erect branched hairs up to 1 lin. long. Calyx J lin. long, 

 truncate, not so densely villous as the receptacle, ciliate. Corolla 

 orange, 1 J in. long, clothed with long little-branched and short much- 

 branched hairs, basal swelling narrowly obovoid -oblong, 2 lin. long, 

 glabrescent below, remainder of tube 6 J lin. long ; lobes 9-10 lin. long, 

 reflexed below the middle, lower half linear, upper half linear-oblanceo- 

 late. Filaments inserted 2|-3 lin. above the base of the corolla-lobes, 

 4-4 J lin. long, lower half linear, upper half much-thickened, involute ; 

 anthers narrowly oblong, nearly | lin. long. Disc pentagonal, 4 lin. 

 high. Style slender, very slightly thickened above ; stigma ellipsoid - 

 spindle-shaped, | lin. long. 



Mozaiub. Bistr. German East Africa: Uluguru ; Xglewcnii, Sfi h'vmnn, 

 8832! 



71. L. virescens, iV. B. Br. in Keio Bulletin, 190G, 1G8. Young 

 branchlets fulvous-tomentose with verticillate-branched hairs, older ones 

 greyish, glabrous. Leaves opposite, elliptic or elliptic-ovate, rounded 

 at the apex, rounded or hardly subcordate at the base, l-lf in. long, 

 J-1 in. broad, densely stellate-pubescent ; petiole 2-4 lin. long. Umbels 

 4-flowered (or 5-7-flowered racemes, 1-3 additional flowers being inserted 

 lower down the peduncle), axillary, or terminating axillary much-con 

 tracted short-shoots bearing 2 pairs of leaves ; peduncle (or rhachis) i-l|- 

 in. long, tomentellous ; pedicels l|-4 lin. long; bract subfoliaceous, 

 narrowly oblong, lanceolate, spathulate-oblong or recurved-trough- 

 shaped, 3-0 lin. long, f-H lin. broad, pubescent on the lower surface, 

 glabrous on the upper. Keceptacle and calyx together cupular or sub- 

 urceolate, If-H lin. long, villous-tomentose outside. Calyx truncate 

 or slightly 5-lobed, J-J lin. long. Corolla 2-2J in. long, hirsute-villous 

 outside with branched hairs ; tube about 8 lin. long, basal swelling 



