356 CXIX. LORANTHACE.E (sPRAGUE). [Lovanthus. 



149. L. Warneckei, Engl, in Engl. Jahrh. xl. 532. Young 

 branchlets greyish-brown, rather slender, 1J-1| lin. in diam. 1 ft. 

 below the apex, minutely pubescent, eventually becoming glabrous ; 

 internodes 1 J-2J in. long. Leaves opposite, sessile, broadly ovate or 

 (Engler) ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or subacute at the apex, cordate at 

 the base, l|-3 in. long, 1-1| in. broad, coriaceous, glabrous; lateral 

 nerves 3-4 on each side, strongly arcuate from a patulous base, anasto- 

 mosing far from the margin, raised on both surfaces, veins slightly 

 raised. Umbels axillary, solitary or fascicled, <S-12-flowered ; peduncle 

 2J lin. long, much expanded at the apex ; flowers inserted in a circle 

 round the margin of the expansion below an apical depression ; pedicels 

 1-1^ lin. long, minutely puberulous ; bract ovate-cupular, truncate or 

 emarginate-biapiculate, minutely puberulous, dorsal margin j lin. long, 

 ventral margin | lin. long. Receptacle and calyx together campanulate, 

 1J-1| lin. long, puberulous. Calyx f lin. long, subtruncate, ciliate, 

 margin slightly and irregularly split. Corolla over 1^ in. long in bud, 

 shortly pilose' outside, apical swelling ellipsoid-oblong, pentagonal, 

 slightly contracted below the depressed-truncate apex, 2 lin. long, 

 basal swelling ellipsoid, 2 J-o lin. long ; tube with T) dark longitudinal 

 lines, split unilaterally 7-8 lin. down ; lobes reflexed, spathulate, 3^ lin. 

 long, much thickened at the apex, depressed-truncate with an outwardly 

 directed triangular horizontal appendage | lin. long. Filaments inflexed, 

 tapering upwards, 2 lin. long, tooth obtuse, | lin. long; anthers oblong- 

 linear, 1 J lin. long. Disc sunk, pentagonal, J lin. high. Style skittle- 

 shaped above, thickened part 2J lin. long, neck hardly 1 lin. long ; 

 stigma ellipsoid, |-J lin. long. Berry ovoid-globose, 3 lin. long, 2| lin. 

 in diam., red.— De Wild. PI. Nov. Herb. Hort. Then. t. 77. 



Upper Guinea. Tofjo: near Lome, Warnecke, 36! on Pithecolobium dvlve, 

 Beuth., Bus.se, 3255! 



150. L. truncatus, Engl, in Engl. Jahrh. xx. 115. Young 

 branchlets densely and minutely pilose, |-1J lin. in diam. 6 in. below 

 the apex; internodes about 10 lin. long. Leaves opposite, ovate or 

 elliptic, rounded at the apex, rounded or subcordate at the base, 1-2 in. 

 long, f-l J in. broad, thinly coriaceous, glabrous ; lateral nerves 2-3 on 

 each side, arcuate-ascending ; petiole 2-3 lin. long. Umbels about 

 9-flowered ; peduncle about 1 J lin. long, densely papillate-pilose, much 

 expanded at the apex ; flowers arranged in a circle round the margin 

 of the expansion below the slightly concave top of the peduncle; pedi- 

 cels \ lin. long, papillate-pilose ; bract ovate-cupular, truncate, papil- 

 late-pilose outside, dorsal margin f lin. long, ventral margin \ lin. long. 

 Receptacle and calyx together campanulate, 1 1 lin. long, papillate outside. 

 Calyx f lin. long, slightly toothed. Corolla 1 J in. long in bud, truncate, 

 puberulous outside, basal swelHng ellipsoid, 2J-2J lin. long; lobes 

 reflexed, subspathulate, 3J lin. long, apex inflexed, much thickened 

 dorsally. Filaments about 2 lin. long, tooth J lin. long. — Acroste- 

 phamis truncatus, Van Tiegh. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xlii. 268. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leojie, Afzelius ! Gold Coast, Krause, 95 ! 



