SoO CXIX. LORANTHACE.E (sPRACUE). [LoTCinth'S. 



103. L. platyphyllus, llocJist. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl, Ah)/.<if!. i. M41. 

 Young branchlets smooth, subglaucous, about IJ lin. in diam. in. 

 below the apex, older ones rough, glabrous. Leaves ternate, subopposite 

 or alternate, lanceolate, ovate-oblong or elliptic-oblong (the lowermost 

 ones of each branchlet elliptic or obovate, smaller than the others), sub- 

 acute, obtuse or rounded at the apex, cuneate into the base. 2-4^ in. 

 long, |-lj in. broad, coriaceous, glabrous, bluish-green {Rosen), penni- 

 nerved ; lateral nerves oblique, about 5-8 on each side, slightly raised 

 on the upper surface, raised on the lower surface ; petiole 4-S lin. 

 long. Umbels axillary, solitary, 5-8-flowered ; peduncle 4-G lin. long ; 

 pedicels 2 J lin. long ; bract shorter than the receptacle and calyx, 1 »roadly 

 elliptic-ovate from a saucer-shaped base, | lin. long, minutely ciliate, 

 uml)onate at the base, ventral and lateral margins \-\ lin. long. Ke- 

 ceptacle and calyx together cupular, 1:^-1 1 lin. long, glabrous. Calyx 

 truncate, about 1 lin. long; intramarginal ring \ lin. long. Corolla 

 oiange-red, subcylindiic in bud, broadest about the middle, slightly 

 tapering upwaVds and downwards, shortly acuminate to the apex, 

 l|-2 in. long; tube split unilaterally; lobes separating from below 

 upwards, linear, shortly acuminate. Filaments inserted 2^-2 J lin. 

 above the base of the corolla-lobes, 4-5 lin. long, tapering upwards, 

 inflexed or involute; anthers linear, 3^-4J lin. long; connective pro- 

 duced J lin. beyond the cells. Disc pentagonal, not distinctly lobed, 

 J-J lin. high. Style not skittle-shaped above ; stigma ellipsoid, \ lin. 

 long. — Schweinf. in Bull. Herb, Hoiss. iv. App. ii. 148 ; Pax in Engl. 

 Jahrb. xxxix. (115. Schiraperina j^latyphylla, Van Tiegh. in Hull. Soc. 

 Bot. France, xlii. 257. 



Wile Ziand. Eritrea: ])lains between Mareb and Godofelassi, 500(» ft., 

 JSchiv&iiifurth, IHl I Abyssinia: Tigre ; Jt'lajcraune, 6'r/ft»?7?6/", 1584 I Mai Sillasa, 

 6000 ft., Eosen. 



Lora,ithus amamus^ Delile ex Van Ticgh. in liull. Soc. Bot. France, xlii. 257, 

 name only {Schimperina amatna, Ynn Tie<,'li. I.e.), iy unknown to me. It is founded 

 on a si)eciu)en in tlie Delessert lierlmrium, collected by Figari at Fa/.okl, I'l^per 

 Sennar; and is probably a form of L. platyphyUiis. 



104. Ij. unyorensis, Spraijxe. Young branches slightly compressed 

 and blackish in the upper part, tawny and finely lenticellate in the 

 lower, older ones subterete, IJ lin. in diam. 9 in. below the apex, pale 

 greyish-brown, finely lenticellate; internodes H-2J in. long. Leaves 

 opposite or subopposite, lanceolate, acuminate to an acute apex, obtu.se 

 or rounded at the base, 3^-4 J in. long, lj-l| in. broad, thickly coria- 

 ceous, glabrous, penninerved ; lateral nerves patulous, about <s on each 

 side, slightly raised on the upper surface, hardly visible on the lower ; 

 midrib prominent, especially on the lower surface ; petiole 5-8 Hn. long. 

 Racemes axillary, solitary or fa.scicled, very short, much-contracted, 

 umbel-like, 8-13-flowered ; peduncle 2J-4J lin. long, clavate, broadened 

 into the base; pedicels borne on the upper li-2J lin. of the peduncle, 

 1J-1| lin. long, broadened into the base; bract ovate-cupular, dorsal 

 margin rounded, J-| lin. long, ventral margin about J lin. long. Re- 

 ceptacle and calyx together campanulate. If lin. long, glabrous. Calyx 



