1962 



Leaflets of Philippine Botany 



[Vol. VI, Art. 98 



recurved or reflexed, 1.5 ram wide, somewhat tapering to 

 the apex, 1.5 cm long, roughened on the ventral side toward 

 the base, not easily separating toward the base; the valvate 

 margins extended into a ruffled edge along the inside of the 

 tube; stamens 5, opposite the corolla segments and inserted a 

 trifle below the throat; filaments atropurpureus, linear, 7 to 

 S mm long, glabrous, erect, compressed; anther yellowish to 

 brown, as wide and nearly as long as the filament, also flattened, 

 straight, gradually tapering toward the apex into a needle-like 

 point; style glabrous, 7 to 8 cm long, green, filiform, flut- 

 ed, 0.33 mm thick or slightly thickened toward the pulveru- 

 lently ridged distal end. 



Type specimen number 14053, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

 baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, 

 ober, 1912. 



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Only inhabiting the limbs of lofty trees along the wind 

 beaten ridge at 3500 feet altitude, between Duros and Ca- 

 wilanan peaks. "Pisawan" in Manobo. 



Foliage similar to that of Loranthus dementis Merr. but 

 our inflorescence is entirely different. 



Oct- 



Loranthus agusanensis Elm. n. sp. 



Epiphytic and part parasitic; stem 1.25 cm thick, 

 descending or horizontal, rather slender, only sparingly re- 

 branched; bark smooth, greenish gray; wood odorless and 

 tasteless, soft and greenish; branchlets green, easily breaking, 

 the slender subterete twigs green and glabrous. Leaves similarly 

 disposed, also breaking with a snap, rigidly coriaceous, much 

 duller green above, its sides equally brown, recurved toward 

 the slenderly acuminate apex, base broadly obtuse or cuneate, 

 entire and subinvolute in the dry state, broadly lanceolate 

 for the smaller leaves, otherwise ovately oblong, the larger 

 ones nearly 2 dm in length, varying from 5 to 7 cm wide 

 below the middle, opposite, well scattered; petiole less than 



s or ridged 



asce 



I cm long, glabrous, subterete; 



beneath, less so above; lateral nerves 6 to 9 



pairs, only evident from the upper side, reticulations none. 



Spikes lateral or axillary, dark green, slender, descending, 



3 to 5 cm long, only the distal 



one third densely flower 



