1068 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. III, Arr. 57 
Type specimen 11701, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, September, 1909. 
Named with pleasure after F. H. Bolster, who found time 
besides his teaching work to collect a lot of interesting plants, 
a number of which are new to science. This species the 
Bagobos call ''Manago." 
Loranthus merrillii Elm. n. sp. 
Small horizontally spreading clusters, scattered on all the 
branches of a medium-sized tree; stems terete and gray, twigs 
green and much flattened. Leaves coriaceous, oppositely spread- 
ing along the branchlets, dull green, glabrous, the bluntly 
acute or obtuse apex slightly recurved, the smaller ones lan- 
ceolate with subcuneate bases, the larger ones ovately oblong 
with rounded or obscurely cordate bases, sessile, the entire 
margins brown and subinvolute in the dry state, 9 cm. long 
and 4.5 em. wide below the middle, frequently much smaller; 
midvein prominent beneath especially toward the base, with 
5 to 8 faint lateral pairs, the reticulations more evident from 
the upper side. Inflorescence terminal or from the upper- 
most leaf axils; rachis averaging 5 cm. long, glabrous, hor- 
izontally spreading, occasionally more than one, very dark 
green; flowers in triads and arranged in 2 rows along the 
sides from below the middle, all sessile; common peduncle 
short, thick, very finely puberulent; calyx green, 4 mm. long, 
columnar, entirely truncate at apex, subtended by a short 
and thick bract, finely pulverulent; corolla erect, strict, with 
a yellowish zone below the blunt bud tips, otherwise bright 
red, 1.5 cm. long, ultimately 7-segmented clear to the base, 
the apical portion enlarged, otherwise tubular; the segments 
spatulately linear, 5 mm. long, strongly reflexed; filaments 
compressed, smooth, 2 mm. long; anthers brownish, with 
light yellow pollen, at least as long, linear, basifixed; style 
reddish, terminated by a brownish capitate stigma, terete, 
nearly equalling the stamens; ovary green; young fruits ellip- 
soid, dark green except the dull red persistent calyx vestiges. 
Type specimen 10617, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, May, 1909. 
This beautiful species was collected on a medium-sized 
