January 25, 1908] A CENTURY or New PLANTS 288 
flowered, sessile, glabrous; pedicels 1 to 3 mm. in length, 
slender, subtended at the base by two series of numerous per- 
sistent bracts, the larger series linear to spatulate and about 
3 mm. long, the smaller series laciniate and 1 to 2 mm. 
in length only; involucral bracts subtending the flowers 
nearly free but distinctly united at the base, 5 in number, 
membranous, brown when dry, oblong, the midvein con- 
spicuous, the finely reticulate sides inwardly folded, each 
provided with a 3 to 4 mm, long slender tail inserted upon 
the back just below the rounded apex; perianth of 5 seg- 
ments, separately inserted upon the base of the united 
basal portion of the involucre, 1 mm. long, coriaceous, sub- 
truncate, glabrous; young seeds sessile, easily detached, sublen- 
ticular, slightly more pointed toward the apex, glabrous, 
reticulate, brown, 1.5 mm. wide. 
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- Type specimen 9196, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Prov- 
ince of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1907. Exceedingly variable 
in size, either upon gravelly soil or upon nearly decaved 
stumps and logs in deep woods along water courses at 700 
meters on Mount Banahao. As far as known it extends 
from our region southward to the Island of Samar. Prob- 
ably nearest related to E. nigrescens Mig. but the receptacles 
of our specimen are not pedunculate. 
LORANTHACEAE. 
Loranthus banahaensis n. sp.—Epiphytic, forming more 
or less rigid tangled bushes, its host swollen where attached; 
branchlets rigid, crooked, rather sparse, breaking with a snap; 
bark smooth, yellowish, certain portions quite conspicuously 
brown colored, lenticelled. Leaves usually curved upon its 
upper lucid green side, beneath light almost sulphur yellowish 
green, glabrous, very thick and rigid, obovate to subelliptic, 
apex rounded, base acute to subcuheate, opposite to subopposed, 
margins entire, the average ones 10 cm. long, only one half 
i as wide; petiole thick, deciduous, 1 to 2 cm. in length, also 
glabrous; midvein prominent especially toward the base, 
dark brown, the 5 to 7 ascending lateral nerves very obscure. 
Flowers in dense sessile clusters, in the leaf axils or frequently 
between the bases of the leaf petioles; the conspicuous conically 
rounded buds covered with a greenish gray calyptrate hood 
