1X, C, 5 Merrill: Sertulum Bontocense, II 445 
densely gray-puberulent, 1 cm long or less, each bearing two 
lateral, sessile, and one median shortly pedicelled flowers, each 
flower subtended by a puberulent, ovate-oblong bracteole 2 mm 
long or less. Flowers 5- and 6-merous. Calyx densely pube- 
rulent, somewhat cylindric, truncate, narrowed below, about 5 
mm long, 2 mm in diameter. Corolla red and yellow, sparingly 
puberulent externally, cylindric, 3 to 3.5 cm long, the reflexed 
portions of the lobes above the insertion of the stamen about 7 
mm long. Anthers lanceolate, about 4 mm long, continuous with 
the short filament. 
Luzon, Bontoec Subprovince, Bauco, Vanoverbergh 1505, December 4, 
1912. 
A species in the same group with Loranthus haenkeanus Presl, and 
manifestly allied to that species, which it greatly resembles. It differs 
in its much narrower, longer, falcate leaves, and in its considerably longer 
flowers. The leaves are remarkably like those of some species of Eucalyptus, 
in the group with E. tereticornis Sm., in shape, texture, and color, from 
whence its specific name. 
RANUNCULACEAE 
RANUNCULUS Linnaeus 
RANUNCULUS LAXUS sp. nov. 
Caulis erectis, dichotomis, usque ad 50 cm altis, plus minusve 
hirsutis; foliis longe petiolatis, 3-sectis, segmentis usque ad 3.5 
em longis, serratis, hirsutis, petiolulatis; floribus longe pedicel- 
latis, flavis, circiter 8 mm diametro, sepalis reflexis; capitulis 
subglobosis vel ovoideis, 6 ad 8 mm diametro; carpellis glabris, 
laevis, circiter 3.5 mm longis, curvato-apiculatis. 
An erect, perennial, dichotomously branched herb about 50 
cm in height, the lower part of the stem, the petioles and to 
a less degree the leaves more or less hirsute with long, scattered, 
spreading hairs, the stems striate, up to 3.5 mm in diameter 
below, much smaller above, the branchlets nearly glabrous or 
only sparingly appressed-hirsute. Leaves long-petioled, all the 
lower ones divided into three, separate, petiolulate segments, the 
petioles up to 8 cm long, those of the uppermost leaves much 
shorter, the petiolules 4 mm long or less; segments sparingly 
hirsute, elliptic-ovate, 2 to 3.5 cm long, 1.5 to 2 cm wide, narrowed 
below to the acute base and above to the acute or somewhat 
acuminate apex, the margins in the upper one-half coarsely and 
irregularly serrate. Uppermost leaves bract-like, lanceolate, not 
lobed, about 1.5 cm long. Flowers few, yellow, about 8 mm in 
diameter, their pedicels 2 to 4 ecm long. Sepals oblong, mem- 
branaceous, obtuse, reflexed, outside with very few, widely scat- 
