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in its few-flowered umbels and in its flowers all being sessile, the 
lateral ones of each triad not pedicelled. Branches stout, terete, 
grayish or reddish-brown, the branchlets grayish-brown, terete, 
rather slender, the internodes 1 to 3 cm long. Leaves alternate, 
thickly coriaceous, opaque and rather pale or brownish when dry, 
ovate, 5 to 10 cm long, 3.5 to 6 cm wide, the apex acute or acumi- 
nate, the base broadly rounded; lateral nerves usually about 5 
on each side of the midrib, obscure, sometimes obsolete; petioles 
about 8 mm long. Umbels solitary, in the axils of leaves on the 
larger branches, gray-puberulent, the peduncles about 1.5 cm long, 
the primary umbellately arranged branches few, about 6 mm 
long, each bearing at its apex a triad of three sessile flowers, the 
subtending bracteoles triangular-ovate, acute, 2.5 mm _ long, 
puberulent. Calyx pubescent, narrowly obovoid, 4 mm long, the 
limb slightly produced, obscurely and broadly 5-toothed. Corolla 
puberulent, in bud cylindric, the tube about 6 mm long, the lobes 
5, about 1.5 mm wide, the part above the insertion of the stamens 
narrowly oblong, 6 to 7 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, acute. Fila- 
ments 4 to 5 mm long; anthers continuous, oblong, obtuse, 2 to 
2.5 mm in length. 
MINDANAO, District of Davao, Baganga, Bur. Sci. 15852 Fénix, August 
20, 1912, the flowers green and purplish. 
LORANTHUS MARITIMUS sp. nov. § Dendrophthoé. 
Frutex epiphyticus inflorescentiis exceptis glaber; ramis 
ramulisque teretibus; foliis alternis oppositisque, oblongis, in 
siccitate pallidis, utrinque concoloribus, opacis, usque ad 8 cm 
longis, petiolatis, nervis obsoletis vel subobsoletis; inflorescentiis 
e ramis vetustioribus, pedunculatis, umbellato-subcapitatis, 
pedunculatis; floribus circiter 3.8 cm longis, 5-meris. 
A parasitic shrub glabrous except the inflorescence. Branches 
stout, terete, reddish-brown, the branchlets terete, slender, gray- 
ish, the ultimate internodes 2 mm in diameter or less, up to 3 
cm in length, frequently much shorter. Leaves oblong, alternate, 
opposite or subopposite, coriaceous, uniformly pale when dry, 
opaque, 5 to 8 cm long, 1.5 to 3 ecm wide, the apex rounded or 
obtuse, the base acute; midrib prominent below, frequently 
evanescent below the apex, the lateral nerves entirely obsolete 
or very faint and about 3 on each side of the midrib, ascending; 
petioles about 5 mm long. Inflorescence from the larger 
_branches, lateral, not axillary, scattered along the internodes, 
the peduncles 1.5 to 2 cm long, all parts gray-puberulent. Pri- 
mary branches umbellately arranged at the apex of the pedun- 
