PHILIPPINE LOR A NTH ACE.*]. 153 



floribus 4-meris, verticillatis, in spicis simplicibus axillaribus terminal i- 

 busque solitariis, usque ad 3 cm longis dispositis. 



Branches terete, brown, glabrous. Leaves opposite, broadly ovate or 

 broadly elliptic, subcoriaceous, broad and rounded at botb base and apex, 

 3 to 5 cm long, 2 to 3.5 cm wide, the younger leaves like the branchlets 

 and inflorescence densely yellow-glandular-puberulent, tbe adult leaves 

 glabrous and often shining on the upper surface, beneath densely pale- 

 glandular-puberulent and somewhat shining; nerves 3 from the base, 

 extending nearly to the apex, slender, not prominent, the reticulations 

 very lax; petioles 3 to 5 mm long, ultimately glabrous. Spikes axillary 

 and terminal, solitary, 3 cm long or less, the flowers 4-merous, sessile, 

 whorled, each flower subtended by a small, ovate, acute, 1 mm long 

 bract. Perianth-lobes narrowly ovate, acute, about 1 mm long. 



Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Port Banga, For. Bur. 'J 132 Whit ford d- 

 Hutchinson, January, 11)08. 



A species well characterized by its broadly ovate or broadly elliptic leaves 

 which are rounded at both ends, and its simple spikes. 



:i. Notothixos philippinensis Elmer Lead. Philip. Bot. 2 (1908) 471 [phU- 



ippinense) . 



Hamulis foliisque junioribus intiorescontiisque densissime aureo- 

 glanduloso-puberulis; foliis oppositis, petiolatis, subcoriaceis, supra gla- 

 bris, subtus dense aureo- vel griseo-gbmduloso-pubcrulis, ovatis, ovato- 

 lanceolatis vel subellipticis, basi acutis vol obtusis, supra angustatis, apice 

 acutis vel acuniinatis, 4 ad 6 cm longis, cireiter 2.5 cm latis, trinerviis; 

 inflorescentiis axillaribus terminalibusque, cymosis, 2 ad 5 cm longis; 

 floribus 4-meris, ad apices ramulorum subcapitato-congestis. 



Negros, Cuernos Mountains, near Dumaguete, Elmer 10114, May, 1908, para- 

 sitic on Canarium at an altitude of about 300 in. Readily distinguished among 

 the Philippine species by its cymose inflorescence. 



The genus has three species in Australia, one in Ceylon, one in Penang, and 

 the above three in the Philippines. 



6. GIN ALLOA Korth. 



1. Ginalloa cumingiana (Presl) F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 185; Vid. Phan. 

 Cuming. Philip. (1885) 141, Rev. PL Vase. Eilip. (1886) 232. 



Yiscum cumingianum Presl Epim. (1851) 255; Walp. Ann. 2: 729. 

 PHILIPPINES, without locality, Cuming 1968, type number. 

 Endemic. 



Yar. angustifolia var. nov. 



Differt a typo foliis multo minoribus angustioribusque, 2 ad 4 cm 

 longis, 2 ad 4 mm latis. 



Luzon, Province of Benguet, Mount Pulog, For. Bur. 162Jf2 Curran, Merritt, 

 & Zschokkr. NEOBOS, Canlaon Volcano, Bur. Sci. 1139 Banks, June, 1900. 



