LoranthiLs.^ cxix. loranthace^ (sprague). 317 



165, t. 14, figs. H-L; Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. Nachtr. i. 131; 

 Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 301. 



wile Ziand. Somaliland : Wagga Mountain, Mrs. Lort PhilUjJs ! Rassa-A!la, 

 Donaldson- Smith ! British East Africa : Makindti River, Kassnej-, 590 ! between 

 Jkfakindu and Kibwezi, Poivell, 20 ! Kibwezi, 3300 ft., Scheffler, 170! Taita ; Ndi 

 Mountain, Hildehrandt, 2579 ! Macliakos, Fospickal ! 



XVXozamb.Dlstr. Gorman East Africa: Usambara ; Kumba Valley, Maslieua, 

 1500 ft.. Hoist, Z^OZl Tanga ; Doda, ^oZ*^, 2933 ! Pangani, StuMmann ser i' 

 773 ! 



The length of tbe anthers and the relative length of the tube and lobes ai)pear to 

 be very variable in L. panr/nnensis. When the flower opens tiie stamens remain 

 attached for some time to the style by the membranous appendages of their con- 

 nectives, which adliere closely to the neck of the style. 



79. L. falcifolius, Sprague. Young branchlets subangular, some- 

 what compressed, glabrous, greenish-grey. Branches nodose, coarsely 

 wrinkled, 1 1-4 lin. in diam. Leaves mostly alternate, falcate or 

 scimitar-shaped, rounded at the apex, sometimes apiculate, gradually 

 narrowed into the base, 2J-3| in. long, 5J-7 lin. broad, coriaceous, 

 glabrous, 5-7-nerved from near the base ; nerves more prominent on 

 the upper surface; petiole '2-i lin. long. Umbels axillary, solitary, 

 3-flowered ; peduncle about 1 lin. long ; pedicels | lin. long ; bract 

 obliquely cupular, thickly keeled dorsally, dorsal margin i lin. lon^^, 

 ventral margin | lin. long. Receptacle and calyx togetlier tubular, 

 very slightly constricted near the middle, 3 J lin. long, glabrous outside. 

 Calyx 2J-2J lin. long, subtruncate. Corolla reddish-orange, 2^ in. 

 long, acutely pentagonal in bud, broadest above the middle ; tube nearly 

 2 in. long, split unilaterally less than half-way. down ; lobes erect, 

 linear, 5J lin. long, f-J lin. broad. Filaments inse^^ted about the base 

 of the corolla-lobes, slightly tapering upwards, 2J-3J lin. long, defiexed ; 

 anthers linear, 1| lin. long, | Hn. broad. Disc slightly lobed, about 

 J- lin. high. Style broadened into the base, slightly thickened above. 



Iiower Culnea. Angola : near Kaconda, on Caesalpiniea}, Gossweiler, 1701 ! 

 L.falcifoUus bears a strong resemblance to L. dodonecefoluis, DC, from which 

 it may be distinguished by the absence of a tooth in front of the anther. 



80. L. Bosciae, Engl. <(• Krcmse in Engl. Jahrh. xliii. 401. 

 Branches rather stout, about 2 lin. in diam. 6 in. below the apex, 

 buff-coloured, slightly wrinkled longitudinally in a dried state; branch- 

 lets ascending, puberulous or glabrous. Leaves mostly alternate, 

 oblanceolate or oblong, rounded at the apex, attenuate to the base, 

 J-lJ in. long, lj-4i lin. broad, coriaceous, minutely and densely 

 pilose, 3-nerved ; lateral nerves often not visible ; petiole J lin. long. 

 Flowers solitary or fascicled on leafy axillary cushion-like short-shoots; 

 pedicels and bracts minutely and rather densely pilose ; pedicels 1 lin. 

 long; bract obliquely cupular, 2-lipped or not, dorsal margin 1-1 J lin. 

 long, slightly umbonate, ventral margin |-1 lin. long. Receptacle 

 and calyx together tubular, 2J-2J Hn. long, minutely and densely 

 pilose outside. Calyx slightly 5-lobed, 1-1 J lin. long excluding the 



