Vov EMBER 29, 19131 



LORANTHUS FROM MoUXT UrDANETA 



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i>earing; erect flowers in groups of 3 or upon very short 

 stalked triads, subtended by an involucre of 3 bluntly pointed 



and basally united bracts; calyx dark green, 2.5 mm long, 

 fully 1.5 mm thick, subterete or angularly flattened, glabrous, 

 terminated at the apex by a 6hort rim, cylindric though 

 distinctly narrower at the base; corolla ruber except the 

 green apical portion, 2 to 2.5 cm long, tubular, slightly 

 enlarged at the base and constricted above it, glabrous; the 

 .6 segments nearly separating clear down to the base, linear, 

 valvate and somewhat ridged on the exterior obtusely pointed 

 apex, the distal 5 ram long portion retlexed in anthesis and 

 punctate on the dorsal side, averaging 1.5 mm wide; stamens 

 also 6 and of a greenish color, opposite the corolla segments 

 and adnate to them 5 mm below the apex; filaments glabrous, 

 compressed, 2 mm long, erect; anthers basifixed, linear, a 

 trifle longer than the filaments, introrse, acutely pointed; 

 style red except the green terminal portion, filiform, glabrous, 

 2.5 cm long, terminated by a slightly enlarged greenish 

 stigma. 



Type specimen number 13405, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

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

 1912. 



Collected from trees and even from shrubby climbers in 

 humid Dipterocarp forested flats at 500 feet above sea. 

 Casandegan" in Manobo. 



dense 



Not Loranthus halconensis Merr. 



Loranthus urdanetensis Elm. n. sp. 



Epiphytic shrub; branches few, ascending or spreading, 

 1 in long or less, sparingly branched from near the base, 1.25 

 cm thick, terete but crooked and nodose or burly, very rigid, 

 covered with smooth brown bark. Leaves opposite or subopposite 

 or even alternate, ascending or horizontal, dull green above, 

 paler beneath, nearly flat or only the acuminate apex recurved, 

 curing reddish brown beneath and blackish brown above, broadly 

 lanceolate or the larger ones narrowly oblong, entire, base ob- 

 tuse, 7 to 10 cm long, 2 to 3 cm wide at or a trifle below 

 the middle; midrib conspicuous beneath and darker brown; lat- 

 eral nerves barely evident from the upper side, about 3 to 5 pairs, 



