1072 LEAFLETS or PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. III, Anr. 57 
Loranthus saccatus Elm. n. sp. 
Epiphytic and part parasitic on limbs of medium-sized trees; 
stem hard, rigid, occasionally creeping along its support, te- 
rete, 2 cm. thick or less, at the base usually developed into 
4 to 8 em. thick tubers, few to several, 1 to 2 m. long; 
branches only sparingly rebranched, rigid and hard; twigs 
slender, terete, yellowish gray, covered with minute yellow- 
ish brown lenticels; wood without odor or taste, white; bark 
brown, smooth or minutely checked. Leaves rigidly coria- 
ceous, horizontal or a trifle downwardly curved especially the 
slenderly acuminate or caudate apex, dark green above, paler 
beneath, glabrous, oppositely scattering along the branchlets, 
ovate or ovately oblong, varying in size, the larger ones 2 
dm. long by 1 dm. wide toward the broadly rounded 
or shallowly cordate base, entire, drying greenish brown; 
midrib conspicuously raised on the under side, with 4 
to 6 primary lateral nerves whose tips are reticulately 
united, the reticulations coarse and more evident from the upper 
surface in the dry state; petiole thick, averaging 1 cm. long, 
caniculate along the upper side. Inflorescence chiefly terminal 
or from the uppermost leaf axils; spikes yellowish green, 
spreading, lax, obscurely angular when dry, glabrous or 
yellowish brown scurfy below the middle, 1 dm. long in 
flower; common peduncles for the flowers less than 5 mm. 
long, glabrous, evenly scattered from below the middle, at 
the distal end bearing a single 4 mm. long ovately acute 
or acuminate bract; flowers erect, odorless, usually the sessile 
one fertile, the lateral or pedicelled ones sterile; calyx green, 
cylindric, 3 mm. long, with a thin minutely dentate or 
. Subtruncate top; corolla 2.5 cm. long, yellowish green 
or green at the clavate apex, the base conspicuously turgid 
or saccate, otherwise tubular, glabrous; segments more or 
less reflexed, 4 mm. long, ligulate, ultimately separating clear 
down to the bulbose base; filaments greenish, compressed, 3 
mm. long, linearly oblong; style with the capitate stigma 
of the same color, terete, exceeding the stamens, subpersis- 
tent; fruits not seen. 
Type specimen 11747, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, September, 1909. 
