^04 cxix. LORANTHAcEvt: (spraglie). [Viscujn. 



obconical, f lin. long ; pedicel about | lin. long ; receptacular tube 

 about J lin. long. Petals marked off from the receptacle by a distinct 

 groove on the outer surface, subequal, ovate, obtuse, about J lin. long, 

 I lin. broad. Anthers elliptic, J-^ lin. long. Female flower: 

 Receptacle and pedicel together about 1 J lin. long; pedicel about ^ lin. 

 long. Petals shortly ovate-oblong, obtuse or rounded, f-yV lin. long, 

 ^-| lin. broad. Stigma projecting J-i lin. above the insertion of the 

 petals. Berry pedicelled, orange-red (Dinter), ellipsoid, 1 J-2 lin. long ; 

 pedicel 1 lin. long. — Harv. in Harv. &, Sond. Fl. Cap. ii. 580; Engl, 

 ill Engl. Jahrb. xx. 131 ; Van Tiegh. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, 

 xliii. 190. 



£ower Guinea. German South-west Africa : Hereroland ; Okahandja, 4000 ft., 

 oil Zizyphns mucronata, Willd., Dinter, 287 ! 



Also in South Africa, where it is parasitic on Salix sp. 



Closely allied to the preceding, from which it differs in the more slender elongated 

 Tiranches and the shape of the leaves. According to Harvey (I.e.) the pedicel of the 

 berry is 2 lin. long, 



14. V. combreticola, Engl, in Engl. Jahrh. xl. 542 {V. com- 

 hrf.ticolum). A much-branched shrub, 1-1 J ft. high. Stem terete, 

 3^-4 lin. in diam. at the base, brown and slightly glossy in a dried 

 state. Branches and branchlets conspicuously flattened, ribbed in a 

 dried state; internodes broadly linear, tape-like, broadest in their upper 

 part, slightly contracted at the apex, slightly tapering into the base, 

 |-2J in. long, 1^-3 i lin. broad, those of the main branches much 

 thickened along the middle. Flowers dioecious, tetramerous. Male 

 intiorescences axillary, composed of l-o ii-flowered cymules, each of 

 which is borne by a bracteal cup. Bracteal cup subtended by a pair of 

 bracts at the base, sessile, boat-shaped, 1| lin. long; loV)es ascending, 

 rounded or obtuse, 1 lin. long, glandular-ciliolate; pedicel (solid base of 

 flower) hardly | lin. long. Receptacular tube f lin. long. Petals 

 alternately deltoid and deltoid-ovate, f lin. long, about | lin. broad. 

 Anthers trigonous with a convex outer surface, elliptic in outline, 

 J-|J- lin. long, y"f5^ lin. broad. Female inflorescences axillary, composed of 

 1 or 3 flowers, each of which is borne by a bracteal cup. Bracteal cup 

 conspicuously 2-lobed, 1 lin. high ; lobes | lin. long, rounded, glandular- 

 ciliolate, exceeding the receptacle at the time of expansion of the flower. 

 Receptacle shortly and broadly obovoid, | lin. long. Petals triangular, 

 over I lin. long, -r"o~i ^^^- broad, deciduous. Style broadly conical, i lin. 

 long ; stigma projecting \ lin. above the insertion of the petals. Berry 

 ellipsoid, 2 J lin. long, smooth or slightly warted. — V. dichotomum, Harv. 

 in Harv. ik Sond. Fh Cap. ii. 581, as to the Magaliesberg specimens, 

 excluding synonyms; De Wild. PI. Nov. Herb. Hort. Then. t. 89, 

 excluding synonyms; not of D. Don. 



Mozamb. Distr. Khodesin : Batoka country, Kirk I Mazoe District; Iron 

 JIask Hill, at 5000 It., Et/les, 456! 



Also ill the Transvaal. 



Visnim dichotomum, Harv. (I.e.), included two distinct species, 7^. anceps, E. 

 Meyer, and V. combreticola, Engl. V. artceps may be distinguished from V. com- 



