Loi'cinthus] cxiii. lorakthace.e. 933 



no. 1130), rare and seen only on one shrub; few li.-buds Oct. 1859. 

 No. 4861. Berries green-purplish. At the ]\rai(jml)o, climbing on 

 Tcunur'/.r (cf. 7'. nricntnlis Forsk. : ant<; p. 5.') ; Wt-lw. herlj. no. HW]) 

 and on " Umpeque " ; fr. Oct. 1S")9. No. 4855- A very rigid 

 sbrublet, U ft. high: stem and branches .swelling in the niiddle : 

 leaves lanceolate, glaucous, very sparse, erect : Howlts blood-n-d. On 

 the mountainous parts of Cazimlxv not far from the banks of the river 

 IMaiombo, not plentiful, growing on the branchlets of Mimosas ; H. and 

 very few leaves Oct. 1^59. No. 4876. A slender, glaucous, virgately 

 branched shrublet, 1 ft. high. In bushy sandy jjlaces at the banks 

 of the river Maiombo, near Pedra de Sal, growing on shrubs of 

 01acine;i; (cf. Xiimnid timerii-cuia L., «/(/*', p. 140); in young ti.-bud 

 Oct. 18o9. No. 4856. 



Hrii.LA. — A branched shrublet, 1 to 2 ft. high ; stem nodose, brittle ; 

 branches ascending, reddish dusky ; leaves glaucous. Near Humpata, 

 j>arasitical on 0.s7/?vsrtZ';/.ss////<'« Hochst.(Wehv. herb. no. (Ui^S) : without 

 tl. or fr. end of Oct. 1859. Apparently this species. No. 4879. 



Apparently on the leaves of this plant the Fungus n. "Jl'J grew at 

 Cavalheiros in July 1859: it is, probably, this species of Lnvantlmsi^ 

 the seeds of which are enveloped in a very sticky gummy matter, -which 

 is used as birdlime and also as gum for sealing letters. See Monteiro, 

 Angola, ii. p. 205 (1875). 



20. L. bumbensis lliorn, sp. n. 



A smooth, somewhat pallid, but little branched shrub ; branches 

 nearly straight ; internodes, at least the upper ones, shorter than 

 the leaves ; leaves mostly opposite or nearly so, spreading, ovate 

 or oval-oblong, obtuse at the apex, broad near or not far from the 

 obtuse or nearly rounded base, fleshy-coriaceous, glabrate, minutely 

 glandular-scaly, shortly petiolate, 1 to 21 in. long by ^ to 1 1 in. 

 broad; petiole about i in. long; flowers about 12 in. long just 

 before expansion, \l in. long when the lobes are reflected, brilliant, 

 blood-red, several together in abbi^eviated axillary cymes; peduncles 

 and pedicels very short, puberulous, rather thick ; bracts cupular, 

 usually with a small deltoid lip on one side, puberulous ; calyculus 

 with a small free wavy or lobulate ciliolate cup-shaped border, 

 pulierulous outside ; perianth tubular, puberulous outside ; the 

 tube \\-ith a globular enlargement (i in. in diameter) at the base, 

 then abruptly contracted and narrowly funnel-shaped above, at 

 length split down one side, and spreading out nearly flat above ; 

 the lobes 5, linear-spathulate, fleshy, thickened and pointed at the 

 apex, about | in. long, at length revolute at or below the middle ; 

 filaments 5, rather shorter than the perianth-lobes, each with a 

 short tooth at the apex, for .some time connivent, at length free 

 and separate and much curved in the open flower ; anthers yV in. 

 long ; style puberulous, equalling the (straightened) perianth, 

 angular about the top of the included portion, thinner above ; 

 stigma exserted. 



BuMHo.— Near Bumbo, parasitical on Acacias ; fl.Oct. 1859. No. 4864 



Nearly related to L. Mnjiri Presl. 



21. L. dependens Engl., I.e., p. 117. 



L. peHclulus Welw, ex Engl., I.e. ; non Sieb. Aci'ostephanus cle- 

 j^endensYsin Tieghem in Bull. 8oc. Bot. Fr. xlii. p. 2G8 (June 1895). 



