ADDENDA. 1031 



long in bud, glabrous ; tube splitting between all the lobes 4-8 lin. down 

 from the insertion of the stamens (to 9-10 lin. above the base), basal 

 swelling obovoid, 2Jlin. long; lobes reflexed, lanceolate-spathulate, 4|- 

 4:^ hn. long from the insertion of the stamens, upper enlarged part lan- 

 ceolate, acute, 2 lin. long, over J lin. broad. Filaments inflexed, tapei- 

 ing upwards, 2J-2f lin. long ; tooth ^ lin. long ; anthers oblong, nearly 

 1 lin. long. Disc pentagonal, hardly lobed, J lin. high. Style skitth- 

 shaped above, thickened part 2J lin. long, neck 1 lin. long, the upper 

 half much thicker than the lower; stigma oblong-ellipsoid, about J lir. 

 long. 



South Central. Belgian Congo : Lukoleln, on the Congo, collector not known. 



Described from a specimen in the Brussels Herbarium. 



143. Loranthus glob if eras, A. Rich. 



V:ir. honiuensis, Sprague. Adil. : L. spathulifoUus, Engl. & Krausc in Engl. 

 Jahrb. xlv. 291. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : near Garua, 1000 ft., Ledermann, 3503, 3693 ! 



Var. salicifulius, Sprague. Add: L. Ostinii, Cliiov. in Ann. di Bot., Roma, ix. 133. 



irile Xiand. Abyssinia: Dembia; Asoso (on Acacia verugera, Scbweinf.) 

 C/iiovenda, 2696 ! Cococc Valley, above Gondar, Chiovenda, 1845. 



147. Loranthus lanceolatus, Bemiv. Add : L. dodensis, Engl. 

 & Krause in Engl. Jahrb. xlv. 289. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : near Dodo, 2300 ft., Ledermann, 2954 ! 



147«. Loranthus ophiodes, Siyrague in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, 

 Iviii. Mem. viii. 202. Branchlets glabrous, smooth and brownish in a 

 young state, afterwards ash-coloured, densely and finely lenticellate, 

 1J-1| lin. in diam. 1 ft. below the apex. Leaves ovate or lanceolate, 

 more or less acuminate to an obtuse apex, sometimes slightly apiculate, 

 cuneate or subcuneate into the base, 2-3 J in. long, f-lj in. broad, 

 coriaceous or subcoriaceous, dull on both surfaces, glabrous, margin 

 crispate ; lateral nerves 4-5 on each side, oblique, anastomosing indis- 

 tinctly a short distance within the margin, slightly raised on botli sur- 

 faces ; petiole 1-3 lin. long. Heads axillary, solitary, 5-G-flowered, 

 glabrous ; peduncle 1^-1 J lin. long; sockets of the flowers arranged in 

 a circle, saucer-shaped, |-1 lin. in diam., about J lin. deep, the inner 

 part of their walls enclosing the pentagonal or hexagonal slightly con- 

 cave apex of the peduncle ; bract shallowly cupular, dorsal margin about 

 I lin. long, minutely ciliate, ventral margin \ lin. long. Receptacle 

 and calyx together campanulate, IJ-lf Hn. long. Calyx truncate, 

 irregularly split, about 1 lin. long. Corolla glabrous, 1|- in. long in 

 bud, apical swelling ovoid-oblong, subacute, 2J lin. long, over 1 hn. 

 in diam., pentagonal, angles ribbed, basal swelling subglobose, 2-2^ hn. 

 long, IJ lin. in diam. ; tube split unilaterally C-6J lin. down ; lobes re- 

 flexed, linear-spathulate, very acute, 4i lin. long, J lin. broad. Fila- 

 ments inserted ^ lin. below the base of the corolla-lobes, involute, 

 tapering upwards, 3 lin. long, y^ lin. broad at the base, tooth stout, 

 I lin. long; anthers narrowly oblong, Ij hn. long. Disc i>enta- 

 gonal, fleshy, glabrous, \-\ lin. high. Style skittle-shaped above, 



