LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY 
EDITED BY A. D. E. ELMER, A. M. 
Le 
Vol. Itl. Manila, P. I., January 28, 1911. Art. 57 
LORANTHUS IN THE VICINITY OF MOUNT AFO 
BY 
A. D. E. Elmer 
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Loranthus secundiflorus bolsteri Elm. n. var. 
Branches yellowish gray; stalks of inflorescence yellowish 
green pulverulent; calyx short and thick, rim-like; corolla 5 
mm. shorter than in the species, the red apical tip without 
the yellowish green basal portion; the anthers in our variety 
are 2 mm. shorter, distinctly bifid at the —— lanceolately 
linear rather than setaceously linear. 
Field-note:—Epiphytic upon the upper limbs of rather 
large trees in humid forests at 4250 feet; the basal portion 
swollen, 0.5 foot thick, gray, comparatively little honey combed, 
inhabited by black ants; stems several or numerous from the 
same cluster, 7 to 11 feet long, freely rebranched; wood hard 
or tough, covered with smooth grayish brown bark; branchlets 
rather slender and flexible, somewhat drooping; leaves rigidly 
coriaceous, horizontal or descending, pale or yellowish green 
on both sides, flat or shallowly conduplicate on the upper 
side; inflorescence horizontal; stalks and calyx green except 
the purplish red margins of the latter; flowers arranged along 
the main axis in small groups of 3’s, ascending, odorless, the 
basal one fourth of the corolla dark fiery red, otherwise 
greenish in the bud and turning yellow in flower; the 6 seg- 
ments strongly reflexed, ultimately splitting clear down to the 
base; style greenish especially toward the stigma. 
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