432 cxx. SANTALACE^ (baker AND iiill). [Osijridicarpos. 



1. O. schimperianus, A. DC, in DC. Prodr. xiv. 635. An 

 undershrub ; branchlets long, slender, green, glabrous, sarmentose, 

 sulcate. Leaves shortly petioled, lanceolate, rather thick, dull dark 

 green and glabrous on both surfaces, the lower J-1 in. long, J in. broad, 

 the upper growing gradually smaller. Flowers in terminal racemes pro- 

 duced down into the axils of the upper leaves, 1-3 from a node on a 

 short erecto-patent peduncle ; bracteoles lanceolate, minute. Perianth 

 green, J in. long; lobes oblong, whitish, J-J the length of the tube. — 

 Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 199 ; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 

 iv. App. ii. 152; Oliv. in Hook. Ic. PL t. 1443, partly. I'Jvesium 

 schimperlanum^ Hochst. ex A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, ii. 235. 



wile Iiand. Eritrea : around Acrur, 6000 ft., Schweinfurth Sf Riva, 1034 ! 

 Mogod Valley, 4500 ft., Schweinfurth ^ Biva, 1605! Keren, Steudner, 1367! 

 Abyssinia: Mount Sholoda, Schimper, 404! Hildehrandf, 672! Beccari, 212. 

 Hritish East Africa: Uganda; Eldama Ravine and Mau, 7000-7500 ft., Whyte ! 

 Lykipia, Von Hohnel. 



2. O. scandens, Engl. Jahrh. xix. Beihl. 47, 29. An under- 

 shrub ; branchlets long, green, sulcate, slender, pubescent towards the 

 tip. Leaves shortly petioled, oblong, J- J in. long by half as broad, 

 obtuse with a mucro, narrowed to the base, comparatively thin, dull 

 green and pubescent on both surfaces, 3-5-nerved. Flowers solitary in 

 the axils of the upper leaves on short erecto-patent pubescent pedicels ; 

 bracts minute, ovate or lanceolate. Perianth J in. long above the 

 ovary ; lobes ovate, J the length of the tube. 



Mozamb. Dlstr. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro; Marangu, 3500 ft., 

 Volkens, 1723 ! 



3. O. Kirkii, Eiigl. Jahrh. xix. Beihl. 47, 30. An undershrub ; 

 branchlets long, slender, sarmentose, conspicuously sulcate, green, 

 glabrous. Leaves shortly petioled, oblong-lanceolate, acute, moderately 

 thick, dark green, glabrous, triplinerved, the lower 1-2 in. long, J-| 

 in. broad, the upper growing gradually shorter. Flowers in long 

 terminal racemes produced down into the axils of the upper leaves ; 

 pedicels short, erecto-patent, mostly 1-flowered ; bracts minute, lanceo- 

 late. Perianth green, J in. long ; lobes ovate, whitish, J the length of 

 the tube. Berry globose, the size of a pea. — 0. schimperianus, Oliv. in 

 Hook. Ic. PI. t. 1443, partly. 



Mozamb. Dlstr. German East Africa: Usagara; Mlali, Stuhlmann, 200. 

 British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; between Shibisa (Cbikwawa) and Tscliinmuzo, 

 2000-4000 ft.. Kirk ! 



4. O. linearifolius, Engl. Jahrh. xxviii. 385. A shrub 6-7 ft. 

 high ; branches long, virgate, longitudinally sulcate. Leaves linear, 

 |-1 in. long, yV-i ^^- b^'O^d, slightly narrowed to the base, obtuse, 

 with a cartilaginous apiculus. Flowers 3-7 in lax cymes ; bracts 

 lanceolate ; pedicels shorter than the flowers. Perianth-lobe deltoid. 

 Anthers sessile at the base of the lobes. Style as long as the turbinate 

 ovary. 



