January 28, 1911] LORANTHUS IN THE VICINITY OF Mount Apo 1073 
Collected on a Litsea tree in very humid densely forested 
flats at 4000 feet, south of the Baruring river. ''Manago" 
is the Bagobo name. 
Closely related to L. ahernianus Merr., but the difference 
in leaves and flowers is sufficient for specific recognition. 
Loranthus hexanthus Merr. 
Field-note for 10462:—A large tangled shrub, parasitic 
upon a Conocephalus; wood snapping rigid; old bark gray 
and brown, young bark smooth and green; leaves heavy, 
thick, leathery, similarly green on both sides; inflorescence 
upon ascending green stalks, axillary; calyx greenish, when 
mature pinkish; buds deeper red toward their tips; corolla 
5-segmented, the upper one third rotately spreading, ultimately 
splitting open clear to the base, paler red on the inner side, 
thick and quite rigid; filaments and style pale red, stigma 
deeper red; anthers light pink; fruit soft, yellowish red and 
becoming scurfy covered, containing a stony seed surrounded 
by sweet mucilaginous meat. On different hosts at 3000 feet. 
"Manago'' is the vernacular Bagobo name. 
Represented by number 10462, Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Mindanao, May, 1909; also numbers 11813 and 11854 from 
the same locality. 
The type is from Lake Lanao, central Mindanao. Very 
common in the vicinity of Todaya in light woods or shrub- 
beries and grows on a variety of trees and shrubs. 
Loranthus apoensis Elm. n. sp. 
A subparasitic shrub, upon limbs of medium-sized trees; 
stems numerous, 1 to 1.5 m. long, numerously branched 
and forming dense rounded masses, quite rigid, covered 
with brown more or less lenticelled bark, the twigs green 
and terete. Leaves ascending, deep olive green and shin- 
ing on the upper side, paler green beneath, flat, thickly 
and rigidly coriaceous, breaking with a snap, usually some- 
what twisted, turning blackish brown in the dry state, 
tips abruptly acute, base similarly obtuse, slightly inequilat- 
eral especially toward the base, subsessile, entire, opposite 
