Loranthus] cxiii. loiiantiiace.k. 'J27 



contrast. The species of Loranthus mostly prefer partial shade, 

 while some like a denser shade and others ayain full li^'ht. 

 Welwitsch su<rgested that an attempt should he made to cultivate 

 the fine-rtowerod species of LuraiiUm.'i on small orange or fig-trees ; 

 the heriies could bo easily introduced from the west coast of 

 Africa, or they might there, (say) in Hierra Leone or Lagos, be 

 planted on small species of Ficus, which these parasites especLiUy 

 aftect, and they might then l)e forwarded together with the 

 matrix in Wardiau cases to Europe. 



The most magnificent species of Lm'anthus are those which 

 grow on Acacia and 7\im.arix trees, on account of the great 

 contrast between the colour and foliage of the hosts and their 

 parasites : for instance, L. (Jibjii about Lopollo on a species of 

 Acacia with yellow flower-heads and a tine pubescence, and 

 L. cinereus and L. Meyeri in Mossamedes on 7\imarix orientalis 

 Forsk. Sometimes, though rarely, a Loranthius gi-ew in large 

 masses on most of the trees of an extensive forest ; such an 

 occurrence was observed in February 1855, in Golungo Alto, 

 where a forest was covered as it were with a cherry-coloured 

 mat, all the tree-tops being overgrown with the richly coloured 

 flowers of a Loranthus. 



See Welwitsch, Apontam. p. 553. n. 112 (1859), and in Gard. 

 Chron. 1871, p. 835 (1 July). 



1. LORANTHUS Vaill., L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 207. 

 >S'>/cophila Welw. ex Van Tieghem in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. xli. 

 p. 485 (Sept. 1894). Acrostachys Van Tieghem, I.e., p. 504. 

 Agelaiithiis Van Tieghem, I.e., xlii. p. 24G (June 1895). Onco- 

 calyx Van Tieghem, I.e., xlii. p. 258 (June 1895). Phragmanthera 

 Van Tieghem, I.e., p. 2G1. Metula Van' Tieghem, I.e., p. 263. 

 Septimetula Van Tieghem, I.e., p. 266. Tapinanthus Van Tieghem, 

 I.e., p. 267. Aerostephanus Van Tieghem, I.e., p. 267. 



1. L. combretoides Engl. Nat. Pflanzenfam., Nachtrag, p. 128 



tSycophila combretoides Welw. ex Van Tieghem, I.e., xli. p. 486. 

 L. Mannii, var. combretoideus Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xx. p. 81 (16 Nov. 

 1894), non Oliv. 



PuNGO AxDONGO. — Sarmentose-scandeut, with the habit of a Cmn- 

 hrettan ; branches 6 ft. long, hanging down and waving in garlands : 

 flowers fleshy-coriaceous, yellowish, tetramei'ous, racemose ; anthers 

 ■J-celled. the cells with several subsidiary cells, almost honeycombed. 

 On the island of Calemba, between Quisonde and Condo. in the river 

 Cuanza ; growing on the long pendulous sarmentose branches, scarcely 

 as thick as a finger, of Ficus pendulu Welw. ex Van Tieghem., I.e., 

 p. 48G, Welw. herb. no. 0359 ; fl. March 18o7. No. 4852. 



2. L. Welwitschii Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xx. p, 87, t. 1, tig. B. (10 

 Nov. 1894). 



Oneocabjx Welicitschii Van Tieghem in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. xlii 

 p. 740 (1896). 



Mossamedes.— A shrublet, 1 to 2i ft. high, branched from the base ; 



