Loranthu8\ cxiii. loranthace^. 933 



no. 1180), rare and seen only on one shrub ; few fl.-buds Oct. 1859. 

 No. 4861. Berries green-purplish. At the Maiombo, climbing on 

 Tamarix (of. T. orientalis Forsk. ; ante, p. 55 ; Welw. herb. no. 1086) 

 and on " Umpeque " ; fr. Oct. 1859. No. 4855. A very rigid 

 shrublet, IJ ft. high ; stem and branches swelling in the middle ; 

 leaves lanceolate, glaucous, very sparse, erect ; flowers blood-red. On 

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

 Maiombo, not plentiful, growing on the branchlets of Mimosas ; fl. and 

 very few leaves Oct. 1859. No. 4876. A slender, glaucous, virgately 

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

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

 Olaoinese (cf. Ximenia ameriecma L., (mte, p. 140); in young fl.-bud 

 Oct. 1859. No. 4856. 



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

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

 parasitical on Osyris abyssinica Hochst. (Welw. herb. no. 6438) ; without 

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



Apparently on the leaves of this plant the Fungus n. 212 grew at 

 Cavalieiros in July 1859 ; it is, probably, this species of Loranthus, 

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

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

 Angola, ii. p. 205 (1875). 



20. L. bombensis Hiem, 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 2f in. long by |- to 1|^ in. 

 broad ; petiole about ^ in. long ; flowers about If in. long just 

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

 blood-red, several together in abbreviated axiUary 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, 

 puberulous outside; perianth tubular, puberulous outside; the 

 tube with a globular enlargement (^ 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 bplow 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 -^ in. 

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

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

 stigma exserted. 



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



Nearly related to L. Meyeri Presl. 



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



L. pendiUus Welw. ex Engl., I.e. ; non Sieb. Acrostephamis de- 

 pendens Van Tieghem in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. xlii. p. 268 (June 1895). 



