JANUARY 28, 1911] LORANTHUS IN THE Vicinity OF Mount Apo 1071 
ly scattered along the branchlets, the sharply acute or acu- 
minate apices recurved and somewhat curved to one side, 
base obtusely rounded, dull green above, paler on lighter 
beneath, glabrous, turning grayish brown while curing, flat 
or only shallowly conduplicate, the margins entire but con- 
spicuously wavy, lanceolate to ovately oblong, the normal 
blades 12 cm. long by 4 cm. wide a trifle below the mid- 
dle, midrib raised beneath, with 4 to 7 ascendingly curved 
lateral pairs, reticulations obsolete, 5 to 8 mm. long, 
subterete except the groove along the upper side, leav- 
ing large circular scars after falling. Inflorescence pendu- 
lous, odorless, the numerous flowers crowded into dense 
fascicles, chiefly lateral; peduncle recurved, 1.5 to 2.5 cm. 
long, green, densely covered with a grayish brown pulveru- 
lence; secondary peduncles 3 mm. long, green and with 
a reddish tinge, similarly pulverulent, bearing 3 sessile flow- 
ers; calyx similar in vestiture, glaucously pink, 3.5 mm. 
long, 2.5 mm. wide across the truncate top, each subtended 
by a triangularly acute rigid bract, more or less angular or 
compressed; corolla glaucous pale pink or carnation red, 
3.5 em. long, tubular throughout, very finely pulverulent 
on the exterior, the lower side ultimately splitting open 
nearly to the base; the 4 or 5 segments reflexed, 6 mm. 
long, 2 mm. wide, ligulate, only their very tips yellowish 
green; filaments 4 mm. long, erect, pink except at the yellow- 
ish distal ends; anthers basifixed, yellow, linearly oblong, 3 
mm. long; style pink, exceeding the stamens, persistent, 
ultimately becoming recurved through the slit of the corolla 
tube, bearing a small similarly colored capitate stigma; fruits 
not seen. 
Type specimen 11817, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, September, 1909. 
This species was gathered in the densely humid forested 
basin at 4500 feet. Its glaucous carnation red flowers hang 
in dense clusters, which, with the dull green rigid leaves 
were quite ornamental. *‘Manago’’ is the native or Bagobo name. 
It is very closely related to L. malifolius Presl and L. 
curranii Merr., both with lateral and pendulous inflorescences. 
L. haenkeanus Presl with terminal and erect inflorescence is 
unknown to me. 
