;;22 cxix. LORANTHACE^ (sprague). [Lorantkus, 



or fascicled ; pedicels | liii. long ; bract cupular, with an oblong, rather 

 irregular obtuse or acute dorsal lobe, which is |-J lin. long, minutely 

 glandular-pubescent outside, especially on the dorsal side, glandular- 

 ciliate, dorsal margin IJ-lf Hn. long, umbonate, ventral margin |-} 

 lin. long, lateral margins J lin. long. Receptacle and calyx together 

 tubular-flask-shaped, 2-2^ lin. long. Calyx subtruncate or slightly and 

 irregularly lobed, glandular-ciliate, IJ-lf lin. long. Corolla lJ-1 J in. 

 loner ; tube glandular within, swelling situated J-1 lin. above the base, 

 ellipsoid, 2 lin. long ; lobes erect, linear, 4 J lin. long, pale below, red 

 above. Filaments 2 J lin. long, tapering upwards, 2-ribbed on the inner 

 surface, ribs glandular-papillate, the uppermost | lin. of the filament 

 slightly swollen, subglandular ; anthers linear, |-1^ lin. long. Disc 

 jicutely 5-lobed, i lin. high. 



Wile Xiand. British East Africa: between Machnkos and Kikuyn, 5000- 

 600<)fl., Scott-Elliot, 6580! and without precise locality, Elliott, 368! 



Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa : L'nyamwezi; Rubugua, Stuhlmann,. 

 493 ! 



DO. Ij. glomeratuSy Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 80. Branches stout, 

 slightly flexuous, nodose, greyish, glabrous, about 2 J lin. in diam. 9 in. 

 below the apex, younger part smooth, older part with longitudinally 

 cracked bark; internodes \-\ in. long. Leaves subopposite or alternate, 

 very shortly petioled, obovate-oblong to oblanceolate, rounded or more 

 rarely obtuse at the apex, sometimes minutely apiculate, cuneate into 

 the base, lj-2f in. long, \-l in. broad, thickly coriaceous, glabrous, 

 irregularly penninerved, or triplinerved with the lateral nerves arising 

 a considerable distance above the base ; nerves prominent on the upper 

 surface, much less so on the lower, the lateral ones very oblique ; petiole 

 J-J lin. long. Flowers axillary, several together, subsessile ; pedicel 

 (solid base of bract) f lin. long; bract obliquely cupular, glandular- 

 ciliate, IJ-lf lin. long including the pedicel, umbonate 1 lin. above the 

 base, dorsal tooth triangular, J lin. long, dorsal margin J lin. long, ventral 

 margin f-^> lin. long. Receptacle and calyx together tubular- flask- 

 shaped, li-l| lin. long. Calyx subtruncate, minutely and sparingly 

 glandular-ciliate, | lin. long. Corolla nearly \\ in. long, skittle-sh-iped 

 in bud; tube about 10 lin. long, glandular inside, suprabasal swelling 

 subgloitose, 1-| lin. in diam., commencing | lin. above the base, neck 

 IJ-H lin. long, inflated part of tube 7 lin. long; lobes erect, linear, 

 4 lin." long. Filaments tapering upwards, 2 J lin. long, the uppermost 

 J lin. Slightly swollen; anthers oblong-linear, | lin. long. Disc acutely 

 5-lol>ed, J lin. high. Style glabrous, slightly thickened above, stigma 

 ellipsoid, f lin. long.— Hiern in Cat. Afr. PL Welw. i. 1)31. Z. Jhn- 

 rique.-^ii, Engl. I.e. 88, as to Welwitsch, 4881. Agelanthns glomo^atus^ 

 Van Tiegh. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xlii. 246, 738. 



Ito-wer Guinea. Angola: Huilla; near Lake Ivantala, on Gardenia Jovis- 

 tonantis, Hiern, Wehoitsch, 4880! between Nene and Jau, on Parinariiim Mobclci, 

 Oliv., Welwitsch, 4881! near Lopollo, Welwitsch, 4881b! 



01. L. loandensiSy Engl, d- Krause in Engl. Jahrh. xliii. 40(;. 

 liranchlets rather slender, about I lin. in diam. I ft. below the apex, 



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