November 29, 1913] Lorantftus from Mount Urdaneta 1961 



clusters, scattered along the branchlets, ellipsoid, 0,25 inch 

 long. "Tagdoan" in Manobo. 



Represented by number 13773, Elmer, Cabadbaran (Mt. 

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



Loianthus longituba Elm. n. sp. 



Very coarse subparasitic epiphytes; stems few to several, 

 spreading, 1 to 3 m long, 2 to 8 cm thick, rebranched; 

 wood odorless, slightly bitter, white or very slightly reddish 

 brown tinged, rigid and breaking with a snap, pith brown; 

 bark also brown except the smooth or dull gray coarsely checked 

 surface; branchlets few, the crooked twigs ascendingly curved 

 toward the leaf bearing portion. Leaves opposite or nearly so, 

 coriaceous, recurved and folded, heavy, easily breaking, pale 

 green beneath, drying dusty brown especially beneath, entire, 

 apex rather sharply acute to acuminate, ba<=e broadly cordate, 

 the average blades 14 cm long by 6 cm wide toward the base, 

 ovate; petiole 1.5 to 3 cm long, terete, stout, roughened j 

 midrib rounded and very pronounced beneath, glabrous though 

 similarly roughened, plane on upper side, much darker in co- 

 lor; lateral nerves very conspicuous beneath, the primary ones 

 3 to 5 pairs although with 1 or 2 relatively obscure basal 

 ones which are chiefly divaricate, the others ascendingly curved, 

 tips of the basal ones coarsely reticulate, those of the larger 

 ones only branched and becoming obscure. Spicate inflores- 

 cence usually in clusters from stem and branchlets; rachis 

 subglaucous green, terete, yellowish brown lanose, 3 to 13 

 cm long, generally ascendingly curved; flowers odorless, sim- 

 ilarly disposed, 5 to 8 cm in length, scattered all around 

 the stalks from near the base; calyx almost 5 mm long, 

 3 mm wide across the truncate or obscurely 5-toothed apex, 

 the distal portion enlarged, the two thirds basal part co- 

 lumnar and 2.5 mm thick, subtended by a thick acute sim- 

 ilarly lanose bract; corolla 5 to 7.5 cm long, fusiformly 

 thickened in the middle or above it, the basal one third 

 ruber and the middle portion citrinus, the apical portion 

 yellowish green, narrowly tubular, glabrous or puberulent 

 toward the base on the exterior, the thickest portion 7.5 

 ram in diameter; segments 5, twisted at the baBe, strongly 



