DR. O. STAPF ON THE FLORA OF MOUNT KINABALU. 221 
THYMEL/EACE X. 
DRAPETES ERICOIDES, Hooker fil. in Hook.. Ic. Pl. 895. 
From 12,000 feet to the top (Low; Haviland, 1078). 
Distribution : North Borneo; New Guinea, Mt. Knutsford. 
LORANTHACE.E. 
LORANTHUS ESTIPITATUS, Stapf, n. sp. ($ Dendrophthoé).—Frutex epiphytieus. Ramuli 
novelli ferrugineo-furfuracei, mox glabrati, vetustiores crebre lenticellis albidis 
conspersi. Folia opposita, petiolo circiter 3 lin. longo suffulta, oblonga vel elliptica 
vel plus minusve formam obovatam vel ovatam appetentia, 2-2 poll. longa, 4-14 
poll. lata, basi rotundata vel plus minusve breviter cuneata, apice obtusa, coriacea, 
juvenilia ferrugineo- vel fulvo-furfuracea, mox glabrata, nervis lateralibus utrinque 3, 
rarius 4, plerumque valde indistinetis. Cymulæ axillares, pedunculo 1-2 lin. longo 
(rarius longiore) suffultze, furfurace:e vel glabratee; pedicelli 2-4 lin. longi, sub 
flore ipso bracteam minutam ovatam vel rotundatam, margine ciliolatam gerentes. 
Calycis limbus brevissimus, ciliolatus. Corolla ¿n alabastro tubo incurvo vel 
subrecto, gracili, basi haud nisi anthesi imminente ampliato, apice obtuse capitato- 
clavata, plus minusve furfuracea, epería, 6-10 lin. longa, postice ultra medium 
fissa; lobi 4, lineari-spathulati, a medio refracti. Stamina lobis corollinis breviora ; 
antherz lineares, 1 lin. longe. Ovarium breviter oblongum vel globosum, vix 1 lin. 
longum, primo furfuraceum, demum glabrescens; stylus corolla paulo longior; 
stigma capitatum. Bacca ovoidea vel oblonga vel subglobosa, ad 3 lin. longa, 
glabrata. 
On the Tampassuk River, alt. 2500 feet (Haviland, 1351). 
Distribution: From Tonkin and South China to Borneo and the Philippines; Perak. 
I refer the following specimens to this species :—Tonkin : Tu-Phat {Balansa, 2329], 
Ououbi [Balansa, 1030]; South China: Lo Fau Shan, Prov. of Canton [Hort. Bot. 
Hongk. a. 1883, 7], Hainan [ Henry, 8261]; North Borneo: Kudat [Dr. Fraser, 183]: 
Philippines [ Cuming, 1970]; Perak [Scortechini, 311, 421 |. 
The Philippine specimen is enumetated as L. sphenoideus, Blume, in Vidal, Pl. Vasc. 
Filip. 231, together with no. 490 of Cuming; but only the latter can be referred to 
L. sphenoideus. Scortechini’s plant, on the other hand, was named Z. Sewrrula var. 
obtecta by Dr. King, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. lvi. p. 92. But, as in Cuming's specimen, 
no. 1970, the fruit is oblong and not at all clavate. I have carefully gone through our 
whole material of Z. Scurrula, which comprises several bundles, and found the shape 
of the fruit very uniformly clavate; and whilst I should not object to merging 
L. repandus, obovatus, and sphenoideus (all of Blume) into L. Scurrula, I think the 
species just described is distinct enough to deserve specific rank, the chief differential 
character being the shape of the ovary and fruit. It is not impossible that it will prove 
to be identical with Dendrophthoé fuscata, Mig. (= Loranthus Juscatus, Korth.), from 
Sumatra. The fruit of this species is said to be a “ bacca ovato-globosa,” but Miquel 
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