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ippine Government, through whose invitation I was able to send a collector 
with him on his southern trip of inspection in 1912. 
LORANTHUS ELMERI sp. nov. § Macrosolen. 
Frutex parasiticus, glaber, ramis ramulisque teretibus; foliis 
oblongo-ovatis, crassissime coriaceis, oppositis, breviter petiolatis, 
usque ad 14 cm longis, sursum angustatis, obtusis vel obscure 
acuminatis, basi acutis, nervis lateralibus obscuris, utrinque cir- 
citer 7; racemis brevissimis, paucifloris, axillaribus, solitariis 
vel fasciculatis, haud 1 cm longis; floribus 6-meris, circiter 1.8 
em longis, basi bracteis bracteolisque 2 ornatis, pedicellis circiter 
1.5 mm longis. 
A parasitic shrub, quite glabrous, the branches and branchlets 
gray or grayish-brown, stout, terete. Leaves opposite, very 
thickly coriaceous, oblong-ovate, 8 to 15 cm long, 3.5 to 5 cm 
wide, brownish-olivaceous when dry, the upper surface shining, 
narrowed upward to the acute or obscurely acuminate apex, the 
base acute; lateral nerves very faint, about 6 on each side of the 
- midrib; petioles stout, 4 to 8 mm long. Inflorescence of axillary, 
solitary and fascicled, very short, few-flowered racemes, the 
racemes 1 cm long or less. Flowers 6-merous, their pedicels 1 
to 1.5 mm long, each bearing at its apex one, broadly ovate, acute, 
1.5 mm long bract and two smaller but similar bracteoles which 
are usually more or less connate. Calyx ovoid, about 3 mm 
long, truncate. Corolla 1.5 cm long, the tube about 6 mm 
long, 3.56 mm in diameter, somewhat inflated and obscurely 
angled, the lobes 6, rather abruptly narrowed, about 1 mm wide 
below the insertion of the stamen, the reflexed parts thickened 
upward, 7 mm long, acute or obtuse; filament about 3.5 mm 
long; anther continuous, 2 mm long. 
PALAWAN, Mount Pulgar, Elmer 12749 (type), 18138, March and May, 
1911, both distributed as Loranthus mirabilis Huerk & Muell.-Arg., a 
species that is quite different and which belongs in an entirely different 
section. 
The alliance of Loranthus elmeri is with L. ampullaceus Roxb. It is 
readily distinguished, however, by its very short racemes. 
LORANTHUS SERIATUS sp. nov. § Heteranthus. 
Frutex parasiticus glaber, ramis ramulisque teretibus, inter- 
nodiis elongatis; foliis oppositis, breviter petiolatis, oblongo- 
ovatis, coriaceis, opacis, usque ad 12 em longis, apice breviter 
obtuseque acuminatis, basi acutis, nervis lateralibus obscuris, 
circiter 6 utrinque, subobsoletis; floribus 5-meris, circiter 2.5 
em longis, in triadibus breviter pedunculatis dispositis, triadibus 
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