934 cxiii. LORANTHACE>E. [Lorantlms 



PuNGO Andongo. — A shrub of 4 to 10 ft. high, hanging a long way 

 down ; leaves glossy, deep green ; flowers very crowded, deep blood-red, 

 very handsome. Near Mutollo and at Candumba, growing on a species 

 of Citrus and on the Leguminosa called " Mucumba " (cf. Tounatea 

 madagascar'mida Taub. ; ante, p. 286) ; fl. Jan. 1857. No. 4851. 



22. L.BelvisiiDC.Prodr.iv.p.303(1830);Engl.,Z.c.,p.l08.n.67. 

 L. lanceolatus Pal. Beauv. Fl. Ow. ii. p. 8. t. 64 (1807) ; nou 



Ruiz & Pavon (1802). 



GoLUN(i(> Alto. — Leaves subglaucous-green ; flowers scarlet. In 

 elevated situations among the Queta mountains, growing on aged 

 trees of F'lcus (cf. F. trachypliiilhi Fenzl ; Welw. herb. no. 6389) ; 

 fl. Dec. 1855. No. 5279. A sbrublet, 3 to 4 ft. high ; branches I in. in 

 diameter at the base ; branchlets flexuous-twisted, rigid, ternately or 

 quaternately verticillate, covered with a grey corky-scarred bark ; 

 leaves opposite, fleshy, brittle, ovate or ovate-oblong, glaucous-green, 

 almost without gloss, pervaded with sordidly purple veins, nearly 

 always mutilated by insects ; flowers fleshy, purple, pubescent ; 

 perianth-segments linear-spathulate, cohering in a long tube, at the 

 time of the flowering with the tube burst at the apex into 5 strictly 

 reflected lobes ; filaments comparatively long, equal, 5, erect in the 

 bud and embracing the style, twisted inwards spirally and elastic at 

 the time of the flower ; anthei's rosy, oblong, basifixed ; style filiform, 

 gradually thickened upwards, a little narrowed below the stigma 

 where it is encircled by the anthers ; stigma oblong or ellipsoidally 

 capitate, green. Between Sange and Bango in wooded places, 

 parasitical on the same Ficus as the previous no. ; fl. and fr. 1 May 

 1856. No. 5280. 



23. L. Mechowii Engl., I.e., p. 118. 



LoANDA. — A divaricately branched shrub, 2 to 3 ft. high, parasitical 

 on the branches and branchlets of Adansonia dig/ fata B. Juss. ; leaves 

 fleshy-coriaceous, glaucous ; the young fruits ellipsoidal. In rather 

 elevated hilly places near Boa Vista ; fl. and young fr. May 1858. 

 No. 4843, and (stem, May 1854) Cull. Carp. 938. 



This is probably the glaucous-leaved Lorcuithus with deep red 

 flowers, nearly covering the Adansonia, which is mentioned by 

 Welwitsch in Proceed. Linn. Soc. ii. p. 329 (1854). 



Fungus n. 32 grew on the leaves of this parasite. 



Engler, I.e., p. 119, quotes again Welw. no. 4843 for his form 

 Wehcitschianus of this species, with leaves subacute at the base, 

 for a specimen with this No. belonging to the Coimbra university 

 herbarium. 



24. L. mollissimus Engl,, I.e., p. 119. 



Bumbo. — In shady places between Bruco and Chao da Xella, 

 parasitical on various trees ; fl. Oct. 1859. No. 4877- 



HuiLLA. — Leaves very caducous ; flowers scarlet. In forests near the 

 Monino, plentiful, parasitical on Eugenia (cf . E. guinecnsis var. Jiuillensis, 

 ante, p. 359 ; Welw. herb. no. 4403) and Sapotaceas (cf. Chrysophyllum 

 urgyrophyUum Hiern, a7ite, p. 641) ; fl. Jan. 1860. No. 4888. 



25. L. MoUeri Engl., I.e., p. 120. 



PuNGO Andongo. — Leaves rigidly coriaceous, subglaucous ; flowers 

 orange-yellow, at length in the dry state turning purple. On the 

 Calemba island in the river Cuanza, growing chiefly on the tree 

 " Mucage " (cf. Comhretun lepidotum (A. Rich.), a/de, p. 347, = C'. 

 Wehvitschii Engl.) ; fl. March 1857. No. 4845. 



