Vlscum.] CXIX. LOllANTHACE.4: (sPRAGUE). 40S 



12. V. rotundifolium, Linn. f. Suppl. 42 G. A small much- 

 branched shrub, glabrous or nearly glabrous in all its vegetative parts. 

 SJtem terete, 2-2J lin. in diam. J-1 ft. below the apex of the branchlets ; 

 older branches 8- or 12-ribbed, younger branches and branchlets 

 hexagonal, the uppermost branchlets slightly compressed ; internodes 

 2-18 lin. long. Leaves sessile or subsessile, broadly ovate (or more 

 rarely suborbicular), acute or apiculate at the apex, rounded at the 

 base, 2\-% lin. long, lJ-4 lin. broad, thickly coriaceous, obscurely 

 3-nervecl, brown or blackish in a dried state, margin cartilaginous. 

 Cymules axillary, solitary or fascicled, 3-flowered, usually composed of 

 a central male and two lateral female flowers, more rarely of three 

 female flowers; peduncle |-1J lin. long, produced iV~8 ^i'^- ^r less 

 beyond the bracteal cup. Bracteal cup distinctly lobed, IJ-lJ lin. 

 long ; lobes ascending, ovate or ovate-oblong, apiculate or subacute, 

 |-J lin. long, glandular-ciliolate. Flowers monoecious, tetramerous. 

 Male flowers : Receptacle and pedicel together obconical, | lin. long ; 

 pedicel about f lin. long ; receptacular tube J-J lin. long. Petals 

 marked off from the receptacle by a distinct groove on the outer 

 surface, ovate or ovate-deltoid, slightly unequal, |-| lin. long, |-J lin. 

 l)road, the two outer separated \ lin. from each other at the apex. 

 Anthers elliptic, J-| lin. long. Female flower : Receptacle and 

 pedicel together l^-lf lin. long; pedicel J-| lin. long. Petals ovate 

 or ovate-oblong, acute, J-| lin. long. Stigma projecting \-\ lin. above 

 the insertion of the petals. Berry pedicelled, red, orange or yellow, 

 ellipsoid, 2i lin. long; pedicel |-1 lin. long. — Thunb. Prodr. 31; 

 Fl. Cap. ed.^Schult. 154; DC. Prodr. iv. 279 ; Harv. in Harv. & Sond. 

 Fl. Cap. ii. 580; Engl, in Engl. Jahrb, xx. 131; Schinz in Bull. 

 Herb. Boiss. iv. App. iii. 55 ; V^an Tiegh. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, 

 xliii. 190. 



Jtovrer Guinea. German South-west Africa: Hereroland; Okahandja» 

 Binter, 291 ! 



Also in South Africa. 



13. V. tricostatum, E. Meyer in Drege, Zwei Pfl. IDocnimente, 94, 

 229, name only. A globose much-branched shrub, glabrous in all its 

 vegetative parts. Stem terete, about 2 J lin. in diam. 16 in. below tlie 

 apex of the branchlets; older branches 8- or 12-ribbed, younger 

 branches and branchlets hexagonal, the uppermost internodes slightly 

 compressed; internodes 4-16 lin. long. Leaves subsessile, spreading, 

 ovate-oblong, elliptic-oblong or lanceolate-oblong, very acute or 

 apiculate at the apex, obtuse or acute at the base, 4-7J lin. long, 

 1J-3J lin. broad, coriaceous, 3-nerved, green or brownish in a dried 

 state," margin cartilaginous. Cymules axillary, solitary or fascicled, 

 3-flowered, usually composed of a central male and two lateral female. 

 flowers, more rarely of three female flowers; peduncle \-% lin. long, 

 produced \ lin. or less beyond the bracteal cup. Bracteal cup distinctly 

 lobed, |-1 J lin. long ; lobes ascending, ovate or ovate-oblong, acute or 

 subacute, \-% lin. long, minutely glandular-ciliolate. Flowers monno- 

 cious, tetramerous. Male flower: Receptacle and pedicel together 



