Loranthus] c\in. lorantiiacE/E. 'J2'J 



asperulous ; branclik'ts mostly spreading horizontally, strongly 

 tuberculate, puberulous with small compound articulate pallid 

 hairs, leafy ; leaves alternate or oftener ternate or even 

 (jiiai-ternately sub-verticillate, ovate-oblong, more or less obtuse 

 at the apex, nearly rounded or subcordate at the base, coriaceous, 

 very bright green above, pallid and lepidote-lioary beneath, 2 to 

 3 in. long by rj to I't in. broad, entire and narrowly revolute on 

 the margin, the younger ones whitish-tomento.se on l)oth faces : 

 petiole 'j to 1 in. long, more or less hairy or scaly ; Howers 1 ,' 

 to 2 in. long, sulphur-yellow, shortly pedunculate, very densely 

 clustered in fascicles, tonientose ; the perianth straight, odobed ; 

 the lobes valvate in .'estivation, line;ir-spathulate, .! in. long; the 

 tube narrowly cylindrical, about 1 Mn. long, lO-nerved, sliglitly 

 tapering from the middle downwards, somewhat thickened about 

 the base, stellate-hairy outside, minutely puberulous-scaly inside ; 

 epicalyx short, whitish-tomentose; anthers -}^ in. long ; fdaments 

 .stout, inserted about the throat of the perianth, twisted, i; in. long, 

 not toothed at the apex ; style nearly etjualling the perianth ; flower- 

 buds yellow, rigid, Heshy ; young fruit } in. long. 



GoLUNGO Ai/ro. — On wooded slopes by the river Delamboa, growing 

 on a Stcrcului (Bondo i;i Molemba ; of. ante, p. 82) and other deciduous 

 trees and usually clothing with its dense mass the topmost branches of 

 their heads : H. beginning of Sept. 1855. No. 5283. In fore.sts at the 

 right bank of the river Delamboa on Sterculias and Acacias ; young 

 fr. Jan. 185G. No. 5284. On the right hand side of the Ambaca 

 road, growing as it seemed exclusively on the upper branches of a 

 Malpighiaceous (?) tree ; fl. 13 Sept. 185G. Xo. 5285. 



Nearly related to L. cinereus Engl. 



7. L. Zygiarum Iliern, sp. n. 



A parasitical shrub, 2 to 3 ft. high, growing on the branches 

 of a species of Albizzia; branches dusky, rambling, quite patent, 

 rigid, tuberculate; In-anchlets at the extremities and young parts 

 puberulous or tomentellous ^\'ith short stellate or articulate tawny 

 hairs; leaves opposite or subalternate, crowded, oval, rounded or 

 obtuse at both ends, fleshy-coriaceous, subglaucous-green, without 

 gloss, glabrous or nearly so above, more or less spread with small 

 scattered stellate -scales beneath, l]-to 2^ in. long by 'i to InV in. 

 broad ; petiole ] to f in. long ; flowers splendidly scarlet, about 

 1^ in. long, slender, glabrous or nearly so, on short pedicels 

 arranged in lateral clusters several together on the l>ranchlets ; 

 epicalyx sub-hemispherical, green, small, wavy at the short free 

 entire margin ; bracts small; perianth-tube about IJ, in. long, 

 about ■— in. in diameter, cylindrical throughout or very little 

 dilated about the top ; the lobes 5, sublinear, broader at the base, 

 slightly spathulate towards the apex, about ] in. long ; fllaments 

 5, glabrous, opposite to the perianth-lobes, ] in. long, rather thick, 

 twisted, in.serted about the throat, not toothed at the apex ; 

 anthers -^., in. long, glabrous, attached at the base ; style glabrous, 

 about equalling the perianth ; young berries globose, green. 



GoLUNCio Ai.To. — By the banks of the river Delamboa rather rare, 



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