396 cxix. LORANTHACE/f: (si'RAgue). [Vlscvm. 



cups should prove to be constant, it will serve as an additional character by which 

 to distinguish the species from V. tubercvlatum. 



In V. tuberculatum each bracteal cup contains either a solitary female flower or 

 three flowers of which the central is male and the two lateral female. 



2. V. tuberculatum, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, i. 338. Stem terete 

 or subterete, 2^-3 lin. in diam. 1 ft. below the apex of the branchlets, 

 nearly smooth or more or less ribbed in a dried state, greenish-yellow, 

 tawny or brownish, glabrous, internodes up to 2 in. long; younger 

 branches and branchlets distinctly ribbed ; internodes of the branchlets 

 5-15 lin. long, the uppermost two or three distinctly compressed, strongly 

 6-8-ribbed, with 1 rib on each edge and 2-3 on each face. Leaves 

 obovate or elliptic, more rarely suborbicular, rounded at the apex, rather 

 abruptly contracted into a cuneate or subcuneate base, 0-18 lin. long, 

 3|-11^ lin. broad, entire or minutely crenulate especially in a young 

 state, coriaceous, glabrous, 3- or 5-nerved from the base, nerves rjiised 

 on the upper surface, less so on the lower; petiole J-1 lin. long. Inflor- 

 escences axillary, sessile, fascicled or solitary. Flowers .moucEcious, 

 tetramerous, each bracteal cup containing either a single female flower 

 or three flowers of which the central is male and the two lateral female. 

 Bisexual inflorescence: Bracteal cup boat-shaped, IJ-lJ lin. long, |-f 

 lin. high, margin horizontal or nearly so, ciliate from within. Male 

 flower obovoid in bud, 1 J lin. long. Petals ovate, | lin. long. Female 

 inflorescence : Bracteal cup ^-| lin. high including the lobes, -| lin. high 

 in the middle, lobes semicircular, ciliate from within. Female flower 

 1|-1| lin. long. Receptacle J-J lin. long. Petals yellow, ovate-oblong, 

 \-\ lin. long. Style \-\ lin. long. Berry orange or red, ellipsoid, 

 2^2j lin. long, more or less warted, especially in a young state ; sub- 

 tending bracteal cup hardly 1 lin. high, very shallowly lobed, lobes 

 rounded. — Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 81, t. 45; Engl, in Engl. 

 Jahrb. xx. 131 ; Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 198 ; Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 107; 

 Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. ii. 152 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. 

 Welw. i. 935 ; Rendle in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. xxxvii. 208 ; Van Tiegh. 

 in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xliii. 190. V. Stuhlmanni, Engl, in Engl. 

 Jahrb. xx. 132; Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 167. V. tdrchonanthum, Welw. ex 

 Van Tiegh. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xliii. 190, name only. V. 

 Campoi'uin, Engl. & Krause in Engl. Jahrb. xliii. 315. 



Wrile X.and. Eritrea: various localities, 5000-6500 ft., Schweinfurih S( Rita, 

 1058 ! Schweinfurth, 976, 1225, 1286, 1485, 1601. Abyssinia : Bellaka and Aman- 

 Eski, 7000 ft., Schimper, 471; Addi Dschoa, at tlie foot of Semayata Mountain, 

 8000 ft., Schimper, 468; Shoa, Petit; and without precise lot*aIity, Plowden ! 

 Uganda : near Mulema, Bagshaice, 332 ! 342 ; Kidung Ndogo, 6000-7(XX) ft., Scott- 

 Elliot^ 6401 ! Toro ; near the mouth of the Mpang,. River, 3500 ft., Bagshawe, 1154 ! 

 Eastern Ankole, 4500 ft., Bawe, 381 ! Equatorial East Africa, Gregory ! 



Iiower Guinea. Anp^ola : Huilla ; in elevated parts of the Chella Mountains, 

 near MumpuUa, on Tnrchonanthus camphoratus, Linn., Welwitsch, 4868! in tlie 

 Catumha forests, Welwitsch, 4869 ! 



Mozamb. Blstr. German East Africa : Kuragwe ; by the K.ngera River, 

 Bagshawe, 178! liukoba ; Itara, Mildbraed, 159! Usui, 4500 ft., Speke Sf Grant, 

 143 ! Uzinja; Kimoani Plateau, 4600 ft., Stuhlmann, 1410! 



