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below, gradually narrowed upwards to the acute apex, the parts 
above the insertion of the anthers lanceolate, 5 mm long. 
Anther sessile, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 4 mm long. 
MINDANAO, District of Zamboanga opposite the Island of Olutanga, in 
forests, altitude 30 meters, For. Bur. 13295 Foxworthy, DeMesa, & Villamil, 
May 17, 1912. 
A characteristic species probably belonging in the section Lepiostegeres, 
although the involucre enclosing the buds is composed of a single bract. 
Its comparatively narrow leaves which are rounded or obtuse at the apex 
and acute at the base, as well as its 9-flowered, axillary, sessile fascicles 
are its distinguishing features. 
LORANTHUS WORCESTERI sp. nov. § Macrosolen. 
Glaber, ramis ramulisque teretibus, griseis; foliis oppositis, 
sessilibus, anguste oblongis ad late ovatis, nitidis, obtusis, basi 
obtusis, late rotundatis, vel distincte late cordatis, nervis utrin- 
que 4 ad 8, laxis, irregularis, tenuibus; inflorescentiis axillaribus, 
pedunculis solitariis (vel fasciculatis), 3 ad 5 mm longis, 2-floris, 
floribus sessilibus, 6-meris, circiter 2 cm longis. 
A glabrous, parasitic shrub, the branches and branchlets terete, 
glabrous, light-gray, the bark slightly wrinkled when dry. 
Leaves opposite, sessile, exceedingly variable in size, narrowly 
oblong to broadly ovate, 6 to 11 cm long, 2 to 7 cm wide, pale 
when dry, shining on both surfaces, the apex obtuse or rounded, 
the base obtuse, broadly rounded, or broadly and distinctly cor- 
date; nerves 4 to 8 on each side of the midrib, slender, irregular, 
anastomosing, the reticulations lax. Peduncles axillary, solitary 
or few in each axil, 3 to 5 mm long, each bearing at its apex 
two sessile flowers, each flower subtended by an ovate, obtuse, 
3 mm long bract and two similar but smaller, free, orbicular, © 
1.5 mm long bracteoles. Calyx cylindric, about 7 mm long, the 
limb produced about 1.5 mm, slightly spreading, thin, truncate. 
Corolla pink and yellow, the lobes 6, very slightly united below, 
the buds cylindric, in anthesis more or less swollen above the 
base, lobes 6, about 1.5 cm long, 2.5 mm wide above the base, 
then narrowed to 1.5 mm at the insertion of the anthers, the 
produced part above the anthers narrowly oblong, obtuse or 
acute, very thick, 6 to 7 mm long, about 1.8 mm wide and thick. 
Anthers sessile, linear, 5 mm long. 
MINDANAO, Bukidnon Subprovince, near Sumilao, Bur. Sci. 15673 Fénia, 
August, 1912. 
A species with much the floral and inflorescence characters of Loranthus 
geminatus Merr., but not closely allied to that species, being at once distin- 
guishable by its very diversely shaped sessile leaves. Named in honor of the 
Honorable Dean C. Worcester, formerly Secretary of the Interior of the Phil- 
