1960 Leaflets of Philippine Botany (Vol. VI, Art. 98 



rather tightly attached to its host or support, though only 

 occasionally completely imbedded into the wooddy tissue. Its 

 underground origin is not known to me. My new Loranthus 

 terminaliflorus has the same habit though only a yard or so 

 in length above ground and is very sparingly branched. 



A decade of years ago there were known but few Phil- 

 ippine species of Loranthus. A few years ago all our then 

 known material represented about fifty species. When we come 

 to know our tree-top flora thouroughly there will be known 

 upward of two hundred species of Loranthus in the Philippines. 



Loranthus banahaensis Elm. 



Field-note: Parasitic and epiphytic upon limbs of large 

 trees in the humid wooded depression between Duros and 

 Cawilanan peaks at 3500 feet; stems several, a yard long or 

 less, only occasionally branched and forming tangled masses, 

 less than 0.5 inch thick, terete, flexible though easily break- 

 ing, covered with smooth yellowish gray bark; leaves also 

 easily breaking, shining on both sides, pale green especially 

 beneath; buds covered with a green bluntly conical rather thick 

 bract which toward anthesis bursts irregularly from apex to- 

 ward base; flowers erect, strict, usually in small clusters, only 

 0.75 inch long, the upper portion of the corolla deep red, 



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red. Candayon 



in Manobo. 



Represented by number 14065, Elmer, Cabadbaran (Mt 

 Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, October, 1912. 



Very common in the subalpine or alpine forests. 



raid 



Loranthus cauliflorus Merr. 



Field-note: Epiphytic and part scandent on a steep hu- 

 densely wooded slope at 3000 feet near the Dalahion river; 

 stem tightly cleaving and twining about the limbs of its support, 

 less than 0.5 inch thick, compressed, rigid, covered with len- 

 ticelled yellowish gray bark, occasionally giving off a branch 

 or group of branches; branchlets drooping, lax, terete, green; 

 leaves very heavy, hanging, paler beneath, usually twisted toward 

 the apex 7 flat, thick and leathery; fruits in small subsessile 



