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white, densely many flowered, the rhachis puberulent with minute hairs. 

 Perianth 4-parted, the segments oblong-ovate, obtuse, about 1.5 mm. long. 

 Stamens 4; filaments Lnflexed in bud, exserted in anthesis, 2 to 3 mm. 



long; anthers about 1 mm. long. Pistillate inflorescence axillary, spicatc, 

 short, 1 to 1.5 cm. long, few (about 8) flowered, the rhachifi puberulent. 

 Perianth 4-parted, the segments imbricate, subequal, oblong-ovate, obtuse, 

 1.7 to 2 mm. long. Ovary sessile, oblong, exserted, 1-celled, glabrous; 

 style 2 mm. long, bipartite for two-thirds its length. 



Mindanao, District of Davao (278 DeVore & Hoover), April, 1903. Basilan 



(2440 Hutchinson) December, L905. "Common in forests above 15 m." Hutch- 

 inson. Bagobo Hulas, in Baailan Olis. 



A species characterized by its comparatively short inflorescence and caudate- 

 acuminate leaves, the margins of which are entire below anil more or less 

 irregularly creiiatc-senate above. 



URTICACEJE. 



CHAMABAINIA Wight, 



Chamabainia squamigera (Wall.) Wedd. in DC. Prodr. 16 (1869) 218. ('. ooa- 

 piduta Wight; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. End. 5 (188S) 580: C. H. Wright in 

 Forbes & Eternal. Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 26 (1899) 489. 



Luzon, District of Lepanto, Mount Data (4556 Merrill) November 4, 1905. In 

 the mossy forest at about 2,250 m. Western China to Northern India south to 

 Ceylon. 



An interesting case of geographical distribution, no species of the genus having 

 previously been reported from the Philippines. So far as I am able to determine 

 from descriptions alone, the Philippine form is not distinct from the Asiatic 

 species to which it is here referred. 



LORANTHACE2E. 



LORANTHUS Linn. 



Loranthus ahernianus Merrill sp. now | DendropthoS. 



Shrubby, branched, glabrous except the somewhat furf'uraceous inflor- 

 escence. Branches glabrous, rugose, lenticellate. reddish brown when 

 dry, rather slender. Leaves opposite, glabrous, coriaceous, pale when 

 dry, dull, ovate to oblong ovate, the base rather broad, rounded or obtuse, 

 the apex acuminate, <i to 10 cm. long, 2.5 to .1 cm. wide, the midrib prom- 

 inent, the lateral nerves very irregular, obscure petioles 1 cm. long. 

 Inflorescence of solitary, axillary, lateral and terminal racemose panicles 

 (I to 8 cm. long, rather many flowered, the axis and short branches fur- 

 furaceous, the 1.5 to 2 cm. long peduncles subtended by a whorl of small 

 imbricated bracts, the branches mostly above the middle, about 5 mm. 

 long, each usually three flowered, the middle flower sessile, the two lateral 

 ones pediceled. Flowers slender, tubular, about 3.5 em. long, yellow, 

 slightly enlarged below and at the apex, the subtending bracts ovate, that 

 of the sessile flower acuminate, 1 mm. long, those of the lateral pediceled 

 flowers smaller and often acute, the pedicels of the lateral flowers 3 to 4 



