1 44 MERRILL. 



35. Loranthus haenkeanus Presl ex Schultes Syst. 7 (1829) 113; DC. Prodr. 

 4 (1830) 304; Vid. Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 231, Phan. Cuming. Philip. 

 (1885) 140; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 184. 



Loranthus malif alius Presl 1. c.; DC. 1. c.; Vid. I. cc., Sinopsis Atlas (1883) 

 t. 81, f. B.; F.-Vill. 1. c.; Naves in Blanco PI. Filip. ed. 3, pi. 459. 



Scurrula haenkcana et S. malifolia G. Don Gen. Hist. 3 (1834) 423. 



Dendrophthoe heankeana et D. malifolia Miq. PI. Ind. Bat. 1 1 (1856) 822. 



Candollina haenkcana et C. malifolia Van Tiegli. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fiance 42 

 (1895) 269. 



Candollina barthei Van Tiegh. 1. c. ? 



Loranthus barthei Engl. Nat. Pflanzenfam. Naclitr. 1 (1897) 129? 



Philippines, without locality, Cuming 19J t 7, 1951. Luzon, Province of Ilocos 

 Sur, For. Bur. 5657 Klcmmc: Province of Benguet, For. Bur. 15892 Bacani: 

 Province of Union, Elmer 5587 : Province of Pangasinan, For. Bur. 18032 Merritt: 

 Province of Tarlae, Hall s. n.: Province of Nueva Ecija, Bur. Sci. 5271 McGregor: 

 Province of Pampanga, Bur. Sci. 1929 Foxicorthy: Province of Bulacan, Yoder 

 251: Manila, Lyon s. n.: Province of Bataan, Bur. Sci. 1618, 1894 Foxicorthy, 

 For. Bur. 90 Barnes. Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Mrs. Clemens s. n. 



A very characteristic, but rather variable species. I have not seen the types 

 of the two species described by Presl, based on Heanke's Philippine material, but 

 the two have been distinguished by later authors by the erect and terminal in- 

 florescence of L. haenkeanus, and the lateral and refracted inflorescence of L. 

 malifolius, but these characters do not appear to me to be constant, and I can 

 detect no other specific differences either in the material before me or in the 

 original descriptions of the two species. The only description given by Van 

 Tieghem for the third species, Candollina barthei, is "ombelle terminale et 

 rfifractee," and I suspect that it, too, is only a form of L. haenkeanus Presl. On 

 most of the specimens above cited, including both numbers of Cuming's collection, 

 5- and 6-merous flowers are to be found in the same umbel. 



Endemic. 



36. Loranthus curranii sp. nov. 



Glaber, inflorescentiis exceptis; i'oliis alternis vol suboppositis, petio- 

 latis, coriaceis, oblongo-lanceolatis, usque ad 15 cm longis, basi rotundatis 

 vel acutis, apice acutis vel breviter acute acuminata, nervis utrinque cir- 

 citer 7, supra distinctis, subtus subobsoletis ; floribus 4-meris, circiter 3 cm 

 longis, in triadibus dispositis, latcralibus breviter pedicellatis, intermedia 

 sessile, triadibus umbellatim dispositis, pedunculis reflexis vel patulis, in 

 ram is vctustioribus. 



Glabrous except the inflorescence. Branches terete, light-gray or 

 brownish, stout. Leaves alternate or subopposite, coriaceous, brown when 

 dry and somewhat shining, oblong-lanceolate, 11 to 15 cm long, 4 to 5 

 cm wide, the base rounded or acute, the apex acute or shortly and sharply 

 acuminate; nerves about 7 on each side of the midrib, nearly obsolete 

 on the lower surface, on the upper rather distinct, anastomosing, curved, 

 the reticulations lax; petioles 1 to 1.5 cm long, stout. Umbels solitary, 

 the peduncles, pedicels and calyces densely ferruginous-puberulent, the 

 corolla slightly so, the peduncles spreading or recurved, about 1 cm long, 

 from the larger branches below the leaves, the flowers 4-merous, in 

 crowded triads which are umbellately arranged, their peduncles 3 to 4 



