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above, reddish toward the base, about 3 em long, the basal 
bracteole narrowly ovate, 1 mm long or less. Calyx narrowly 
funnel-shaped, pubescent, about 3 mm long, the throat about 
2.5 mm wide, the limb produced, truncate, obscurely 4-toothed. 
Petals 4, entirely free, about 2.8 cm long, 2 mm wide, pubescent 
externally. Filaments 5 to 6 mm long; anthers continuous, 
narrowly oblong, obtuse, 3.5 mm long. Fruit not seen, said by 
the collector to be white. 
Luzon, Subprovince of Ifugao, Mount Polis, Bur. Sci. 19842 McGregor, 
February 10, 1913, on Medinilla. 
Apparently most closely.allied to Loranthus acutus Engl., but with much 
larger flowers than that species. It also resembles L. polillensis C. B. Rob., 
in some respects, but has smaller leaves, and more numerous, pubescent 
flowers. 
OLACACEAE 
WORCESTERIANTHUS genus novum 
Flores unisexuales. Calyx parvus, 5-dentatus, vix auctus. 
Petala 5, angusta, puberula. Fl. ¢: Petala valvata. Stamina 
petala duplopluria, alternatim inaequalia, filamentis gracilis; 
antherae orbiculari-ovoidae, rimis intus dehiscentibus. Ovarium 
rudimentum cylindricum, elongatum, puberulum. FI. ¢ : Petala 
imbricata. Stamina vel staminodia nulla. Ovarium ovoideum, 
glabrum vel basi pubescens, 2-loculare, loculis 1-ovulatis, ovula 
pendula. Stigma sessile, breviter 2-lobata. Drupa ovoidea vel 
subovoidea, 2-locellata, carne crasse coriacea vel sublignosa, pu- 
tamine crustaceo. Arbor dioica, parva, glabra vel subglabra. 
Folia alterna, ovata vel oblongo-ovata, penninervia, integerrima. 
Flores parvi, axillari, breviter pedicellati, ¢ numerosi, ¢ subso- 
litari. 
WORCESTERIANTHUS CASEARIOIDES sp. nov. 
Arbor parva, usque ad 12 m alta, partibus junioribus floribus- 
que exceptis glabra; foliis alternis, glabris, ovatis ad oblongo- 
ovatis, chartaceis, in siccitate nitidis, pallidis, usque ad 15 cm 
longis, basi acutis vel subrotundatis, apice acuminatis, nervis 
utrinque circiter 5, distantibus, laxe anastomosantibus, promi- 
nentibus; floribus parvis, 5-meris, ¢ circiter 3 mm longis ° 
paullo longioribus; fructibus solitariis, glabris, circiter 1.5 cm 
longis, acutis. 
A small tree reaching a height of about 12 m, glabrous except 
the young branchlets and the flowers, dioecious. Branches gray, 
terete, slender, the young ones very obscurely angled, the growing 
tips finely grayish-puberulent. Leaves alternate, exstipulate, 
