Viscnyu.] cxix. loranthace.e (sphague). 40B 



cymiile, borne in a bract eal cup, or of a central 3- flowered cymule and 

 1-2 flowers on each side. Bracteal cup broadly trough-shaped, | lin. 

 high, If lin. long, | lin. broad ; lobes slightly ascending, rounded, 

 nearly j lin. long, margin scarious. Solid base of flower J-| 

 lin. long. Receptacular tube hardly | lin. long. Petals deltoid- 

 ovate, |-| lin. long, yg^-1 lin. broad at the base. Anthers trigonous, 

 elliptic-oblong in outline, |-J lin. broad. Female inflorescence 

 consisting of l-o flowers, with or without bracteal cups. Bracteal cup, 

 when present, embracing only the base of the receptacle. Receptacle 

 and pedicel together | lin. long, obovoid ; receptacle coarsely and 

 densely warted ; pedicel J-| lin. long. Style tetragonal, J-| lin. long ; 

 stigma projecting y^.- lin. above the insertion of the petals. Berry con- 

 spicuously pedicelled, yellow, subglobose, 21 lin. in diam., coarsely and 

 densely warted; pedicel about | lin. long. — Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 

 131 ; Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. ?jH5. 



irile liand. Uganda: Unyoro; K'lhero, on Lako Albert, 2o00 ft., Baf/.shawer 

 913! 



XVXozamb. Dlstr. German East Africa : Uhehe ; near Lula, about 4000 ft.,. 

 Goetze, G05 \ Khodusia: Buluwayo, 4500 ft., Ei/les, 1139 ! 



Also in the Transvaal and Natal. 



The Kliodesian jdant is typical V. vernicosum. Those from Uganda ahdCJerman 

 East Africa have less warted fruits, and seem in some respects intermediate between 

 V. verrucosKin and V. Ba<jshaivei. 



23. V. tenue, Engl, in Engl. Jahrh. xx. 133. Much branched. 

 Branches terete, 1-1 J lin. in diam. 9 in. below the apex; branchlets slender, 

 snbterete, grooved in a dried state, less than ^ lin. in diam. near the apex ; 

 internodes J-lJ in. long. Flowers dia^cious, tetramerous. Male plant 

 unknown. Female plant : Flowers solitary or 2-3 together, 1 central 

 and 1-2 lateral, the solitary or central flower either without a bracteal 

 cup or inserted in a two-lipped antero-posterior cup which is half as 

 long as the receptacle at the time of expansion of the flower. Receptacle 

 obovoid, f lin. long, f lin. broad at the apex, smooth. Petals golden- 

 yellow, broadly ovate or ovate-oblong, f lin. long,^-y,y lin. broad, deci- 

 duous. Stigma projecting f lin. above the insertion of the petals. 

 Young berry sessile, ellipsoid, smooth. — Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 1(17, t. 19, figs. 

 H-L. Aspidixia temciSy Van Tiegh. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xliii. 193. 



XVXozamb. Blstr. German East Africa : Usambani ; at Bauf^arra, near Lutindi, 

 5000 ft., parasitic on Loraulhus Schelei, En^'l., Hoist, 3302a ! Usambara, Bt'chwaJd, 

 455 ! coast ui>posite Zanzibar Island, Kirk ! 



2-1. V. capense, Linn. f. Supjyl. ■12(>. A densely branched shrub. 

 Stem terete, about 2^ lin. in diam. near the base; branches and branch- 

 lets conspicuously nodose ; branches very numerous, spreading, longi- 

 tudinally wrinkled in a dried state; branchlets obtusely tetragonal; 

 internodes 2-^^ lin. long, the uppermost slightly compressed. Scale- 

 leaves spreading or at length more or less deflexed, deltoid, acute or 

 apiculate, ^-| lin. long. Lateral scale-leaves broadly subulate, J-| lin. 

 long. Flowers dioecious, tetramerous. Male inflorescence consisting of 



