January 28, 1911] LORANTHUS IN THE ViciwITY or Mount Aro 1069 
tree of Eurya on a densely forested ridge at 6000 feet of 
mount Calelan. Dedicated to Mr. E. D. Merrill who recently 
revised the Philippine Loranthaceae and published his mono- 
graph in the Philippine Journal of Science. The Bagobos call 
it '"Manago." 
Loranthus formicarium Elm. n. sp. 
Rigid subparasitie shrubs; stem 5 to 8 dm. long, branch- 
ed from near the base, several or numerous, at the base nearly 
2 dm. thick, honey combed and inhabited by small black ants; 
twigs mostly gray or yellowish, brown lenticelled. Leaves op- 
positely scattered along the branchlets, glabrous, pale green 
on both sides, turning dull brown when dry, entire, subses- 
sile, the smaller ones linearly oblong or lanceolately oblong, 
the larger ones ovately oblong, 1 dm. long by 4 cm. wide 
below the middle, base bluntly obtuse or broadly rounded and 
occasionally inequilateral, the apex characteristically rather 
broad and rounded; midvein evident from both sides, with 
4 to 6 lateral ascending nerves on either side, their tips 
reticulately anastomosing; petiole very short, comparatively 
thick, leaving large scars after becoming detached. Inflores- 
cence axillary; spike 3 to 5 em. long, glabrous, divaricate or 
ascending, bearing 2 rows of triads along its sides above the 
middle; common peduncle very short, subtended by minute 
bracts which soon fall off; the 2 lateral flowers sessile, the 
middle one distinctly pedicelled, all subtended by a single 
quite thick bract 3 mm. long and rather sharply pointed; 
calyx 3 mm. long, columnar, the margins thin and subtrun- 
cate or obscurely dentate, subtended by 3 triangularly acute 
bracts; corolla 3 em. long, glabrous, 6-segmented nearly to 
the base, the terminal reflexed segments linear and about 1 
em. long; filaments fleshy, glabrous, 6 mm. long; erect an- 
thers light yellow, basifixed, 3 mm. long, narrowly linear; 
style terete, as long as the stamens, bearing a small green- 
ish capitate stigma; apical portion of ovary conical, glabrous; 
fruits not seen. 
Type specimen 11304, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Distriet of Davao, Mindanao, August, 1909. 
On limbs of large trees in forests at 3000 feet. It is 
