Loranthus\ CJCiii. LORANTHACBiB. 931 



12. L. bnmnens Engl., l.c., p. 88. 



Agelanthus bnmnews Van Tiegh., l,c., p. 738 (1896). 



PuNGO Andongo. — An erect or ascending shrub, growing in masses 

 as if forming thickets on the branches of Leguminous and other trees ; 

 leaves compactly coriaceous, with melastomaceous nervation ; flowers 

 blood-red, often densely covering chiefly the lateral branohlets. In 

 the forests of Pedras de Guinga and MutoUo, growing on Ceesalpinieae 

 with a tamarind-like habit (cf . Brachystegia tamarindoides Welw. ; 

 and Welw. herb. no. 572, ante, p. 302) ; scarcely weU-developed fl. 

 Jan. 1857. No. 4850. 



13. L. Henriquesii Engl., l.c., pp. 88-89, as to n. 4885, not as 

 to n. 4881. 



HuiLLA. — Flowers whitish-rosy. Near Mumpulla, on Panda trees 

 (cf. Brachystegia apicosformis Bentb. ; Welw. herb. no. 678 ; ante, 

 p. 300) ; fl.-bud Oct. 1859. No. 4885. 



14. L. glomeratus Engl., I.e., p. 89. 



L. Henriquesii Engl., I.e., pp. 88-89, as to n. 4881, not as to 

 n. 4885. AgeUmthus glomeratus Van Tiegh., I.e., p. 738. 



HuiLLA. — Flowers whitish-rosy (?). In Panda forests, on Gaxdenia 

 Jovis-tonantis Hiem, Welw. Coll. Carp. 168 (partly), ante, p. 461 ; 

 near the lake Ivantaia ; not yet in good fl. end of Feb. 1860. No. 4880- 

 In forests between Nene and J4u, on Parinari Mobola Oliv. (of. Welw. 

 herb. no. 1282 and Coll. Carp. 1 ; ante, p. 320) ; in young fl.-bud April 

 1860. No. 4881. In forests about Lopollo ; in young fl.-bud Dec. 1859. 

 No. 48816. 



This species should perhaps be reduced to the last, but if distinct 

 No. 4881 is better placed here. 



15. L. Gilgii Engl., l.c., p. 91. 

 Agelamthus Gilgii Van Tiegh., I.e., p. 738. 



HuiLLA. — A very elegant much-branched shrublet ; leaves glaucous ; 

 flowers white, purplish at the base and apex. On trees of Combretaoeae 

 (cf . Comhretum holosericeum Sond. ; ante, p. 360 ; Welw. herb. no. 4379) 

 plentiful, and on Mimoseae (cf. Acacia robusta Burch. ; Welw. herb, 

 no. 1833 ; ante, p. 314) rarely ; in the Lopollo country ; fl. Dec. 1859. 

 Not uncommonly in company with three or even four other species of 

 Loranthus. No. 4893. 



16. L. Buehneri Engl., I.e., p. 114, partly, t. 2. fig. E. 

 Ambeiz. — A shrub, virgate-erect, 3 to 6 ft. high, sparingly and 



patently branched ; leaves rigidly coriaceous, from glaucous to green ; 

 flowers peach-red, the older ones turning to orange-scarlet ; berries 

 from red to green when ripe. In maritime thickets composed of 

 a Celastrinea (cf . GymnoapoHa senegalensis Loesener ; ante, p. 145 ; 

 Welw. herb. no. 1361) behind the port of Ambriz, growing parasitioally 

 at the roots of a Malvacea (probably a species of Sida) though at first 

 sight terrestrial and not parasitical ; fl. and f r. Nov. 1853. No. 4842. 

 A shrub 5 to 7 ft. high ; leaves opposite, fleshy, glaucous ; flowers 

 axillary, subsessile, tubular, red. At the mouth of the river Loje, not 

 obviously parasitical ; fl. and f r. Nov. 1853. Coll. Caep. 937. 



No. 4854, which is also quoted by Engler, I.e., p. 115 for this species, 

 has sessile and more crowded leaves and the flower-buds are rounded 

 and not truncate at the apex ; I have referred it to L. sesaiUfolius Pal. 

 Beauv. 



