148 MERRILL. 



For, Bur. llflSS Merritt; Mount Pulog, For. Bur. 180J t 5, 18084 Curran, Merritt, 

 d Zschokke; Mount Ugo, Bur. Sci. 5780 Ramos; without locality, Loher J,!,59. 

 Mindoko, Mount Halcon, For. Bur. J,l t 3J t Merritt. Mindanao, Mount Malindang, 

 For. Bur. J t 769 Mearns d Hutchinson. 



43. Loranthus williamsii sp. nov. 



Glaber; foliis oppositis, petiolatis, oblongis vel oblongo-lanceolatis, 

 obtusis, basi aeutis, usque ad 7 cm longis, nervis lateralibus tenuibns, 

 obscuris, utrinque 5 vel 6 ; capitulis axillaribus, solitariis, 4-floris, in 

 alabastro globosis, bracteis circiter G arete imbricatis involucratis, in- 

 terioribus circiter 1.4 cm longis, exterioribus minoribus, deciduis; flori- 

 bus sessilibus, 5- vel 6-meris, 3 cm longis. 



Glabrous throughout. Branches terete, grayish-brown, rather densely 

 lenticellate. Leaves opposite, coriaceous, dull-green when dry, not or but 

 slightly shining, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, the apex obtuse, base acute, 

 5 to 7 cm long, 1.5 to 2.5 cm wide; nerves 5 or 6 on each side of the 

 midrib, very slender, obscure; petioles about 3 mm long. Heads axillary, 

 when young globose, solitary, sessile, surrounded by about 6 strongly im- 

 bricated, brown, shining, coriaceous, elliptic to elliptic-ovate, rounded 

 deciduous bracts, the inner ones about 1.4 cm long, the outer gradually 

 smaller, the outermost ones about 8 mm long. Flowers 5- and 6-merous, 

 four in each head, sessile, the peduncle very stout, about 2 mm long, 3 mm 

 in diameter, marked by the bract-scars. Calyx 2.5 mm long, about 3 mm 

 in diameter, the limb produced, truncate. Corolla 27 mm long, the tube 

 3 to 4 mm in length, the lobes 5 or 6, 2 mm wide below, narrowed some- 

 what above, the reflexed portion above the insertion of the stamens 8 to 

 mm long. Anther sessile, linear, 7 mm long. 



Luzon, Province of Benguet, Baguio, Williams 973, September 21, 1904. Cum- 

 ing 1971} is probably referable here but my specimen is too fragmentary for certain 

 identification. 



A species well characterized by its 4-flowered, sessile, axillary, solitary heads, 

 the flowers sessile, 5- and 6-merous. 



DOUBTFUL AND EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



Loranthus ulancoanls F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 355. 



lirabejum f caliculatum Blanco PI. Filip. ed. 2 (1845) 39; ed. 3, 1: 72. 



F.-Villar's species was based on Blanco's Brabejum f caliculatum, but if the 

 latters description is correct in all particulars, the species can not be referred 

 to the Loranthaccac. I have therefore excluded it, although I have not been 

 able to make out the identity of Brabejum ? caliculatum, or to which family it 

 really belongs. 



Loranthus heterantuus Wall.; Vid. Sinopsis Atlas (1883) t. 81, f. A. 



Undoubtedly an erroneous identification, as the species has not been found 

 in the Philippines; I can not determine to which species Vidal's figure really 

 belongs. 



Dendroimitiioe incarnata Blume; Vid. Cat. PL Prov. Manila (1880) 40 

 (=Loranthus incarnatus Jack). 



