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cle, 8 mm long or less, stout, rather numerous, each bearing a 
terminal triad of 3 sessile flowers, the three bracteoles broadly 
ovate, obtuse, 1.5 mm long, connate below, the persistent calyces 
after the fall of the corollas appearing like a rather lax globose 
head. Calyx puberulent, narrowly obovoid, truncate, 3.5 mm 
long, the limb very slightly produced. Corolla cylindric in bud, 
3 cm long, purplish and green, puberulent externally, the lobes 
5, united below and forming a cylindric tube about 6 mm long, 
the lobes about 1 mm wide below, the reflexed part above the 
insertion of the stamens linear-oblong, obtuse, 7 mm long, 1 
mm wide. Filaments 6 mm long; anthers continuous, oblong, 
obtuse, 2.4 mm long. 
MINDANAO, Province of Surigao, Tamano, Bur. Sci. 15824 Fénix, August 
16, 1912, on trees along the seashore. 
A species manifestly in the same group with Loranthus haenkeanus Pres], 
but only distantly allied to that species. It is characterized by its inflores- 
cences being scattered along the older branches, not axillary, rather dense, 
and its flowers all sessile, the two lateral ones not at all pedicelled as in most 
of the forms in this group. 
LORANTHUS ALTERNIFOLIUS sp. nov. § Lepiostegeres? 
Frutex glaber, ramis ramulisque teretibus, tenuibus, brunneis, 
internodiis elongatis; foliis alternis, usque ad 11 cm longis, 
anguste oblongis ad oblongo-lanceolatis, subcoriaceis, nitidis, 
petiolatis, apice obtusis, basi acutis; floribus 6-meris, axillaribus, 
fasciculatis, sessilibus, 2 cm longis, fasciculis in alabastro in 
bractea solitaria inclusis. 
A glabrous shrub, the branches elongated, slender, terete, 
. smooth or somewhat striate, dark-brown when dry, the inter- 
nodes 3 to 9 cm long, the ultimate branchlets 1.5 mm in diameter. 
Leaves subcoriaceous, brittle when dry, olivaceous, of about the 
same color and shining on both surfaces, 7 to 11 cm long, 2 to 
3 cm wide, narrowly oblong to oblong-lanceolate, the apex 
rounded, the base gradually narrowed, acute; lateral nerves very 
slender, obscure or subobsolete, 6 or 7 on each side of the midrib; 
petioles 1 to 1.5 cmlong. Flowers in sessile, axillary, solitary fas- 
cicles at the nodes, 9 sessile flowers in each fascicle, in bud entirely 
enveloped by a single, brown, coriaceous or subcoriaceous bract, 
which bursts irregularly and falls at anthesis. Bracteoles sub- 
tending the flowers one to each calyx, orbicular or reniform, 
about 2 mm long. Calyx 2 mm long and about 2.5 mm in 
diameter, truncate. Corolla yellow, 6-merous, 18 mm long, 
cylindric, slightly gibbous, more or less inflated, the lobes united 
below forming a 5 mm long tube, the free portions 2 mm wide 
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