Lora/it/cus.] cxix. loranthace.e (sprague). 381 



margin spreading or ascending, J-J lin. long. Receptacle and calyx 

 together cupular, IJ-IJ lin. long, rusty-tomentellous. Calyx |-<^- lin. 

 long, lobed ; intramarginal ring J- J lin. high. Corolla yellow, about 

 IJ in. long, villous-tomentose outside; tube split unilaterally 6-6-i lin. 

 down, basal swelling oblong-ovoid, 2^-:^ lin. long ; lobes erect, spathulate- 

 linear, subacute, 4| lin. long | iin. broad, the upper part with a hard 

 inner layer sharply demarcated below. Filaments inserted at the base 

 of the corolla-lobes, deflexed, 24 lin. long, tapering upwards, thickened 

 in the uppermost f lin., tooth I lin. long; anthers oblong-linear, IJ lin. 

 long. Disc J lin. high, 5-lobed nearly to the middle. Style skittle- 

 shaped above, thickened part 2J-o lin. long, neck Ij lin. long; stigma 

 ellipsoid, nearly J lin. long, with a minute apical depression. 



Upper Guinea. Togo : near Tambcrm«, 1000 ft., Kersling, A 502 ! 

 Northern Nigeria: Yola District, on Anogeissus leiocarpa, iiuiW. & Feri\, Dalzie/, 

 214! 



Very near L. hetet'omorp/ius, A. Kicli., with which it may have to he united 

 when further material comes to hand. 



190. L. heteromorphus, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, i. 340. Branch- 

 lets short, spreading or patulous, fulvous- or rusty-tomentose in a young 

 state, afterwards pubescent; branches stout, 2-2^ lin. in diam. G in. 

 below the apex, at tirst pubescent, soon becoming glabrous, longitudinally 

 wrinkled and cracked in a dried state ; internodes \-2\ in. long. Leaves 

 opposite, ovate, ovate-oblong, elliptic-oblong or lanceolate, acute, obtuse 

 or rounded at the apex, obtuse at the base, IJ— ^J in. long, 8-17 lin, 

 broad, coriaceous, tomentose or tomentellous in a young state, when 

 adult coarsely pubescent or finally glabrescent ; lateral nerves 4-5 on 

 each side, raised on the upper surface, less so on the lower; petiole 

 3-5 lin. long. Umbels axillary, solitary, 2-0-flowered ; peduncle, pedicels 

 and bract rusty-tomentellous ; peduncle l-o lin. long ; pedicels Ij-l J lin. 

 long ; bract erect, narrowly ovate from a saucer-shaj)ed base, concave, 

 1-1 J lin. long, ventral margin J-J lin. long. Receptacle and calyx 

 together cupular, slightly constricted below the apex, 1J-1| lin. long, 

 rusty-pubescent. Calyx J-J lin. long, ^-toothed, ciliate, teeth triangular; 

 intramarginal ring yq-J lin. high. Corolla l|-2 in. long, villous- 

 tomentose outside with red multicellular little- branched hairs; tube 

 split unilaterally about 5 lin. down, basal swelling ellipsoid or oblong- 

 ellipsoid, i^-^\ lin. long; lobes erect, spathulate-linear, 5-5J lin. long, 

 the upper part with a hard inner layer sharply demarcated below. 

 Filaments inserted at the base of the corolla-lobes, deflexed, 3 lin. long, 

 tapering upwards, tooth J-J lin. long ; anthers linear, 1|-1J lin. long. 

 Disc pentagonal, J-J lin. high, slightly 5-lobed. Style skittle-shaped 

 above, thickened part 3J-4 lin. long, neck l^-lf lin. long; stigma 

 depressed-globose, |-J lin. in diam. — Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 109 ; 

 Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxxix. GIG. L. regularis^ Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. 

 Boiss. iv. App. ii. 148, partly. 



Nile Xiand. Eritrea: Adi-Qoiuoschio, in East Dembelas, 6000 ft., Srhwein- 

 furtJi, 182 ! near Keren, Beccari, 51 ! Abyssinia: Tigre; Adowa, Schimper, 747; 

 Semen; .Jaja, Schimper, 406; Begemeder ; valley of the River Reb, Sltudner ! 

 Tacazze River, Peiit, 341 ! 



