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tinguished by its peduncled, 6-fiowered inflorescences, which are in the 

 axils and also seriately arranged along one side of the internodes. 



LORANTHUS SAMARENSIS sp. nov. § Heteranthus. 



Frutex parasiticus, glaber, ramulis teretibus; foliis oppositis, 

 sessilibus, ovatis, usque ad 18 cm longis, crasse coriaceis, in 

 siccitate brunneis, utrinque minute verruculosis, apice obtuse 

 acuminatis, basi rotundatis vel leviter cordatis, nervis utrinque 

 5 vel 6, arcuato-anastomosantibus, subdistinctis ; inflorescentiis 

 secundum internodiis plus minusve confertis, fasciculis 4-floris, 

 sessilibus vel brevissime pedunculatis ; floribus teretibus, circiter 

 2.4 cm longis, 5-meris, petalis liberis. 



A parasitic glabrous shrub, the branches and branchlets terete, 

 reddish-brown, smooth. Leaves opposite, sessile, thickly coria- 

 ceous, brown when dry, of the same color on both surfaces, 

 minutely verruculose, ovate, 9 to 18 cm long, 7 to 11 cm wide, 

 often slightly inequilateral, apex obtusely acuminate, base 

 rounded, sometimes slightly cordate; lateral nerves 5 or 6 on 

 each side of the midrib, rather distinct, stout, curved, anasto- 

 mosing, the secondary ones and the reticulations obsolete. Flow- 

 ers terete, cylindric, 5-merous, all sessile, about 2.4 cm long, in 

 4-flowered fascicles, the fascicles sessile or on very short pedun- 

 cles (peduncles 2 mm long or less), densely crowded along one 

 side of the internodes, each flower subtended by a broad, rounded 

 bracteole 1.5 to 2 mm in length. Calyx cylindric, somewhat 

 thickened upward, about 4 mm long, the limb produced about 1 

 mm, truncate, minutely ciliate. Petals 5, linear, free, 2 cm long, 

 about 2 mm wide, the part above the insertion of the stamen 

 about 7 mm long, thickened, acute. Anthers oblong, 3 mm long, 

 continuous with the 2 mm long filament. 



Samar, Catubig River, Bur. Scl 24265 Ramos, February 7, 1916. 



A species manifestly allied to Loranthus cuernosensis Elm. and to L. 

 edanoii Merr., differing from the former in its flowers being densely crowded 

 in 4-flowered sessile or shortly peduncled fascicles on the internodes, not 

 axillary, and from the latter in its leaves being rounded or somewhat 

 cordate at the base; its 4-flowered, not 6-flowered fascicles; the peduncles, 

 when present, much shorter; and its longer flowers. 



LORANTHUS PACHYCLADUS sp. nov. § Dendrophthoe. 



Frutex parasiticus, glaber, ramis ut videtur plus minusve car- 

 nosis, in siccitate teretibus, laevis, nitidis, brunneo-olivaceis, 

 circiter 1 cm diametro; foliis ternatis vel subternatis, oblongis 

 ad oblongo-ellipticis, coriaceis, usque ad 10 cm longis, nitidis, 

 supra olivaceis, subtus pallidis, apice obtusis, basi cuneatis, nervis 

 utrinque circiter 6, valde obscuris vel subobsoletis ; inflorescentiis 

 axillaribus terminalibusque, circiter 10 cm longis, pedunculatis, 



