382 cxix. LORANTiiACE.E (sprague). [Loraut/u's. 



191. L. musozensisy Rendle in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. xxxvii. 204. 

 Young branchlets shortly tomentose ; branches greyish, inconspicuously 

 lenticellate ; internodes |-1J in. long. Leaves subopposite, broadly 

 ovate, obtuse or rounded at the apex, rounded or subtruncate at the 

 base, 1|-)^ in. long, \^2 in. broad, coriaceous, rather thick, coarsely 

 pubescent with branched hairs on both surfaces, penninerved ; lateral 

 nerves slightly raised on both surfaces ; petiole 5-6 lin. long. Umbels 

 axillary, solitary, about 1 G -flowered ; peduncle, pedicels an<l bract densely 

 rusty-pubescent ; peduncle shortly clavate, 2-2| lin. long ; pedicels li-2 

 lin. long ; bract ovate from a flat or slightly saucer-shaped base, dorsal 

 margin | lin. long, ventral margin \-\ lin. long. Receptacle and calyx 

 together shortly campanulate, IJ lin. long, rusty-tomentose. Calyx 

 I lin. long, shortly toothed ; intramarginal ring \ lin. high. Corolla 

 Ij in. long, villous-tomentose outside with shortly branched hairs; tube 

 split unilaterally about 7^ lin. down, basal swelling ellipsoid, 2i lin. 

 long ; lobes erect, subspathulate-linear, 4| lin. long, the upper part 

 boat-shaped, 2J 'lin. long, ^ lin. broad, ^'.r lin. deep, oblong-lanceolate 

 seen from within, hard inner layer sharply demarcated below. Filaments 

 inserted about the base of the corolla-lobes, deflexed, '2\ lin. long, 

 slightly tapering upwards, thickened in the uppermost ^ lin., tooth \ lin. 

 long ; anthers linear, J ^-I | lin. long. Disc pentagonal, stout, \ lin. high, 

 hardly lobed. Style skittle-shaped above, thickened part about 2-2 lin. 

 long, neck 1§ lin. long ; stigma .subglobose, \ lin. in diam. 



10*116 Ziand. U^-aiula : Musozi, on tlie bark-cloth tig, Bagshan-e, 1^4 '. 



Vt-ry closely allied to L. heteromorphva . A. Tkicli. 



1!)2. la. gabonensis, Knyl. in En<il. JaJirh.xx. 127, t. ''">,,//;/. A'. 

 Branchlets slender, glabrous, drying blackish, internodes j-l.f in. long. 

 Leaves opposite, lanceolate, obtu.se or rounded at the apex, obtu.se at 

 the base, 2|-4 in. long, l-l^ in. broad, coriaceou.s, glo.s.sy, very finely 

 wrinkled and dark brown in a dried state; lateral nerves indistinct; 

 petiole 4-;") lin. long, narrowly winged. Umbels axillary, ternate, about 

 6-flowered ; peduncle 2 lin. long ; pedicels ;l-o| lin. long ; bract ovate 

 from a saucer-shaped base, acute or narrowly truncate, minutely ciliolate, 

 dorsal margin J lin. long, strongly umbonate on the lower pait, ventral 

 margin patulous, J lin. long. Receptacle I lin. long. Calyx ascending, 

 truncate, ciliolate, i lin. long. Corolla over l| in. long, truncate in 

 bud ; tube about 11 J lin. long, the lowermost o "lin. slightly swollen ; 

 lobes 10| lin. long, subspathulate above, thickened and shoulder-shaped 

 at the apex. Filaments inserted 1 J lin. above the base of the corolla- 

 lobes, 8 J lin. long, flattened, slightly tapeiing upwards, glabrous, tooth 

 subulate, ^ lin. long; anthers oblong, 1 lin. long, about ^ lin. broad, 

 emarginate at the apex. Disc annular, hardly lobed, ^ lin. high. — 

 Stephaniseus gabonensis, Van Tiegh. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xlii. 261. 



Xo'wer Guinea. Gaboon: Munda District ; Sibange Farm, iS'o^yaf/x, 305 I 

 Tessmann, 736, from the IJebar District, Spanish Guinea, probably belongs to 



L. gabonensis. It has larger, less coriaceous leaves than the type, and tlie lateral 



nerves are more distinct. 



