930 CXIII. LORANTHACE.«. [Lomilthus 



and in the Capopa forests rather plentiful ; fl. and young f r. beginning 

 of Nov. 1855. No. 5281. 



Related to L. oreophilm Oliv., but the leaves are very obtuse. 



8. L. anguliflorus Engl., I.e., p. 107. 



HuiLLA. — Flower-buds yellow-reddish, verging on scarlet. In 

 wooded mountainous places at the lake of Ivantala, growing on a 

 Caesalpiniaceous tree with the habit of a tamarind (cf. Bmclnjstegia 

 taniarmd Okies Welw. herb. no. 585 ; ante^ p. 301) ; fl.-bud end of 

 Feb. 1860. No. 4887. 



9. L. angolensis Engl, I.e., p. 101. 

 Metula sp.. Van Tiegh., I.e., p. 263, 



GoLixGO Alto.— A bard, woody shrublet, 2 to 3 in. high ; branches 

 twisted ; leaves coriaceous, rigid, somewhat glossy above, more or less 

 ferruginous-tomeutose beneath ; flowers orange-brickred, somewhat 

 rigid and dry, brittle. In rather elevated forests in Sobato Quilombo, 

 parasitical on " Musondo," that is, P.^rudosprmdias m'icrocarpo Engl. 

 (See ante, pp. 176, 177) ; fl. middle of July 1856. No. 4844- 



Benguklla. — Between Benguella and the river Catumbella, growing 

 on a species of Cordia ; without either fl. or fr. June 1859. Deter- 

 mination doubtful. No. 4870. 



10. L. Engleri Hiern. 



L. emarginatus Engl., I.e., p. 100; non Swartz (1788). 



Sejytimetula sp.. Van Tieghem, I.e., p. 266. 



PuNGO AxDOXGo. — Stems 2 to 3 ft. high ; leaves glossy ; flowers 

 from blood-red to scarlet. In the presidium growing on Sapotaceous 

 plants (cf. Chrij^Dphylhun cbiereum Engl. ; Welw. herb. no. 4823 ; ante, 

 p. 640), rather rare ; fl. Nov. 1856. No. 4849. 



11. L. cinnameus Hiern, sp.n. 



A rigid, comparatively robust shrub, with nearly straight and 

 svxbglabrescent branches patent or spreading at about half a right 

 angle with the stem ; branchlets tomentose -with rufous stellate 

 jointedrather short hairs ; internodes mostly shorter than the leaves, 

 rather thickened ; leaves opposite, patent, subsessile, ovate-oblong, 

 obtuse at the apex, cordate at the base, fleshy-coriaceous, dark or 

 glaucous green, glabrous or glossy above, paler or brown and 

 shortly stellate-tomentellous sometimes almost obsoletely so 

 beneath, 3 to 5 in. long by 1 to 11 in. broad, the young ones 

 densely clothed with a cinnamon-coloured tomentum ; young 

 fruits ellipsoidal or obovoid, very shortly pedicellate, arranged 

 several together in subsessile clusters lateral on the branchlets in 

 the axils of fallen leaves, densely clothed with a cinnamon- 

 coloured tomentum consisting of rather short branched jointed 

 stellate hairs, about i in. long, i in. broad, i in. thick, surmounted 

 with a short saticer-shaped rim about Jv in. in diameter surround- 

 ing the base of the fallen style. 



PuNGO Andongo. — In the little woods of the praesidium, very rare, 

 growing on Spoudiaceas (Mucumbi), (cf. Calesiam unti scorbutica, ante, 

 p. 179) ; young fr. March 1857. No. 4846. 



Appears to be related to L. hirsutissimns Engl. There is a specimen 

 in the National Herbarium in flower from the Congo collected by 

 Christian Smith which perhaps belongs to this species. 



