928 cxiii. LORANTHACE^. [Loranthus 



branches patent, virgate, dusky-black ; leaves glaucous, fleshy, brittle,, 

 ovate-lanceolate : flowers yellow ; perianth-tube whitish and inflated 

 at the base, above narrowed and green, then during the flowering 

 obliquely bent ; the lobes 5, yellow ; ovary green, narrowly ellipsoidal 

 and scarlet when ripe, one-seeded. By the rocky sides of the river 

 Bero, parasitical on the branches of Tamarix orientalia Forsk. (see ante 

 p. 55) ; fl. and fr. end of July 1859. The swelling of the branchlet of 

 the matrix at the base of the attached parasite is nearly spherical, a» 

 large as a moderate-sized walnut, depressed, and very hard, though 

 juicy. No. 4883. 



3. L. glaucocarpus Peyr. in Sitz. Akad. Wien, xxxviii. p. 571 

 (1860), ex descript. 



L. cistoides Welw. ex Engl., I.e., p. 103 ; Phragmanthera sp.,. 

 Van Tieghem in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. xlii. p. 262 (June 1895). 



PuNGO An'Dongo. — An intricately branched shrublet, 1 to 3 ft. high, 

 whitish-tomentose throughout ; flowers of a wine-orange colour ; fruit 

 blue when ripe. On the small tree " Molulu " in Compositse (cf . Vernonia 

 senegalemis Less. ; ante p. 528) and on Citrus Medica L., frequent on 

 the latter ; fl. and young fr. end of Oct. 1856. No. 4848. A much- 

 branched shrublet, 1 to 3 ft. high, scaly-hoary throughout ; perianth- 

 tube from greenish to very pale yellow, tomentose outside, the lobes at 

 the apex spathulate and rosy purple. On various trees such as Citrus 

 Aurantinm L., C. Medica L., Spondias Momhin L. (" Munguengue " 

 cf. Welw. Coll. Carp. 359), Gardenia (cf. Raudia andongensiH Hiem 

 "Welw. herb. no. 3096), and on cultivated plants of Ficus Carica L. : 

 far too abundantly infesting the prsesidium ; fl. middle of Jan. 1857 

 Seen also on Dichroatachys platycarpa Welw. herb. no. 1797. No. 4847. 



Benguella. — In open sandy maritime forests near Benguella, 

 together with two other species of Lorantlms, parasitical on Cordia 

 (cf. ante, p. 713) ; fl.-bud June 1859. No. 4853. 



MossAMEDES. — Flowers yellow, always veiny. By the banks of the 

 river Maiombo below Cazimba on the branchlets of Tamarix orientalise 

 Forsk. ; fl. Oct. 1859. No. 4857. 



Welwitsch proposed to place this species in a new subsection of the 

 genus, with the character : — Flowers pentandrous, fasciculate 3 or 4 or 

 rarely more together, each flower provided with a leaf-like bract. 



4. L. fulvus Engl., I.e. 

 Phragmanthera sp., Van Tiegh., I.e. 



HuiLLA.— A beautiful plant with orange-coloured flowers. In the 

 Monino forests, growing on Dodonaia viscosa Jacq. (Welw. herb. nos. 

 1691 and 1692 ; ayite, p. 172) and on a Combretacea (cf. Comhretum 

 holosericeurn Sond. ; ante, p. 350 ; Welw. herb. no. 4379), seen nowhere 

 else ; fl. beginning of Feb. 1860. No. 4886. 



5. L. cinereus Engl., I.e., p. 103. t. 2, fig. C. 

 Phragmanthera sp., Van Tiegh., I.e. 



MossAMEDES. — A densely branched shrublet, 1 to IJ ft. high ; leaves 

 fleshy, brittle, pals green, flowers pallid rosy, floccose-hoary, purple 

 inside ; stamens and style orange-coloured. Near S. Joao do Croque, 

 Rio Croque, Cabo Negro, plentiful, growing on Tamarix orientalis 

 Forsk. (cf. ante, p. 55) and the Composita " Quitoco " (cf. Pluchea 

 Dioscoridis DC. ; ante, pp. 557-558) ; fl. 3 Sept. 1859. No. 4884. 



6. L. Sterculiae Hiern, sp. n. 



A parasitical shrub, 5 to 7 ft. high ; branches dusky or ashy, 



