Gnidia] cxii. tiiymki-.<:a(e,e. 925 



thickets near Miiiiipulla in Oct. 185',', grew in comi)aiiy witli a (iuidta, 

 probably this species. 



5. G. Hoepfneriana (Jili: in En^'l. Bot. Juhil). .xix. p. L>G8 

 (21 Aug. ]8;il). 



Lasiosiphon Ifoepfneriannn Vatke ox Oilg, I.e. 



HriLL.v. — Perianth pentamerous, sulphur in colour. In dry bushy 

 sandy-earthy places between Murapulla and Lopollo, plentiful ; fl. 

 Oct. and Nov. 1859. No. 6479. An undershrul>, with erec-t sparingly 

 branched stems and yellow Howers : fr. Nov. \Xi>\). (Jki.i,. C.\i;r. KH;'). 

 An erect undershrub, 1 to 2 ft. hiyh ; stems several from a big rhizome, 

 sparingly branched ; flowers seen only in a withered condition having 

 apparently been yellow ; heads in fruit thick. In rocky bushy |)a8ture8 

 near Mumpulla, sporadic ; late fl.and infr. end of Oct. 1851). No. 6476. 



The following No. i.s apparently an nmle.scribed species of 

 Gnidia, related to ArtJirusoleiiJlavus llendle : — 



HuiLLA. — Stems several from a woody rootstock, .suberect, glabrous, 

 leafy, simple below, branched above ; branches erect, leafy, glaucescent ; 

 leaves oblanceolate, very obtuse at the apex, narrowed to an obtuse 

 shortly petiolate base, glabrous, glaucescent, ^ to Ij in. long by j'^ to \ 

 in. broad ; fruiting peduncle nearly 15 in. long, erect, very sparingly 

 pilose, nearly glabrate, dusky in the dry state ; involucral leaves about 

 4. broad, dusky when dry, nearly glabrate ; pedicels short, hispid with 

 long white erect hairs at the apex. In hilly bushy places about the 

 lake of Ivantala ; after the fall of the fr. Feb. 18G0. No. 6480. 



CXIII. LORANTHACE.^. 



The number of species and also that of individuals of the same 

 species increase progressively from the sea coast towards the 

 highlands of the interior, and culminate in the mountainous 

 forests of the districts of Pungo Andongo and liuilla at an 

 elevation between 4000 and 6000 feet. 



Nearly all the species are erect or more or less spreading shrubs 

 fiom 1 to 2t, ft. high, but one species forms a pendulous shrub 

 with slender branches 4 to 6 ft. long. Most of the species of 

 Loranthus as well as the single species of ViHcuni grow on the 

 lower or higher or even on the top branches of evergreen trees, 

 and less frequently on deciduous trees ; only a few brilliantly 

 flowering species occur in the torrid and treeless coast region, 

 at the base of low shrubs of jNIalvaceie and Petalidiinu very 

 much in the same manner as Cytinus Jli/pocistns L. grows on 

 Cistus on the sandy plains of Portugal ; sometimes in the hot 

 littoral region a beautiful Loraidhus is met with growing, not at 

 the base, but on the middle branches, or even on the main stem 

 of low slender twiggy shrubs, and in such cases the combination 

 of the bright green and broad-leaved parasite ;ind its gay crimson 

 flowers with the thinner and dillereutly shaped foliage of the 

 foster plant, forms one of the most striking features of parasitic 

 vegetation along the sea coast of Benguella and ^lossamedes ; for 

 instance, a small bush of Gossupiuui or allied genus, only 2 to 3 ft. 

 high, bore several stems of a pink-flowercd Loranthus nearly a foot 



