PHILIPPINE LORANTHACEiB. 141 



Glabrous except the inflorescence. Branches terete, smooth, grayish- 

 ■or reddish-brown. Leaves alternate, oblong-elliptic to narrowly ovate- 

 elliptic, 4 to 10 cm long, 1.5 to 4.5 cm wide, the base acute or acuminate, 

 the apex blunt or very obscurely blunt-acuminate, brown and dull when 

 dry, thickly coriaceous, brittle; nerves three on each side of the midrib, 

 ascending, the reticulations obsolete or nearly so; petioles about 1 cm 

 long. Racemes axillary, solitary, simple, the rachis 3 cm long or less, 

 the pedicels about 3 mm long. Calyx densely grayish-puberulent, 2.5 

 to 3 mm long, the limb produced, obscurely 5-toothed, each subtended 

 by a broadly ovate, 2 mm long bracteole. Corolla red, somewhat curved, 



3 to 3.3 cm long, in bud slightly inflated above the middle, the apex 

 narrowed; lobes 5, linear, about 8 mm long and 1 mm wide. Filaments 



4 mm long; anthers continuous, 2.5 mm long. 



Luzon, Province of Rizal, San Francisco del Monte, Loher J('f81 (type) : Prov- 

 ince of llocos Norte, Bur. Sci. 2288 Mearns: without locality, Cuming 1955, 1965, 

 and a sheet in the herbarium of this Bureau without number. 



A species manifestly allied to Loranthus curvatus Blume, but with much smaller 

 flowers. 



25. Loranthus pentandrus Linn. Mant. (1767) 03; DC. Prodr. 4 (1830) 

 305; Blume Fl. Jav. Loranth. (1828) 33, t. 10; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 5 (1886) 

 216; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 184. 



Palawan, Merrill 692, Bur. Sci. 283 Bermcjos. 



India to the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, and Borneo. 



26. Loranthus subalternifolius Alerr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 

 188, excl. syn. Loranthus cumingii Engl. 



Amylothcca cumingii Van Tiegh. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France 41 (1894) 264. 



Ehjtranthe cumingii Engl. Nat. Pflanzenfam. Nachtr. 1 (1897) 126. 



Philippines, without locality, Cuming 1969 (type number of Amylothcca 

 cumingii Van Tiegh.). Luzon, Province of Benguet, Elmer 6191. 



The original specific name is invalidated in Loranthus by Loranthus cumingii 

 Engl, and L. cumingianus Engl. 



Endemic. 



27. Loranthus boholensis sp. nov. 



Glaber; foliis oppositis, coriaceis, petiolatis, lanceolatis vel late lanceo- 

 latis, usque ad 15 cm longis, basi rotundatis vel abrupte decurrenti- 

 acuminatis, apice gradatim acuminatis, nervis utrinque 3 vel 4, obscuris, 

 curvato-ascendentibus ; inflorescentiis axillaribus, solitariis vel fascicu- 

 latis, floribus omnibus sessilibus, tenuibus, G-meris, falcatis, in triadibus 

 breviter pedunculatis, racemose diepositis. 



Glabrous throughout. Branches terete, grayish, lenticellate. Leaves 

 opposite, lanceolate or broadly lanceolate, coriaceous, dark-colored or 

 brown, and somewhat shining on the upper surface when dry, 11 to 15 

 <;m long, 3 to 5 cm wide, broadest in the lower part, the base rounded 

 or abruptly and slightly decurrent-acuminate, gradually narrowed up- 

 wards to the acuminate apex, which is straight or slightly falcate; nerves 



