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reticulations none; petiole 5 mm long, very dark reddish brown 

 on the dry specimens. Inflorescence upon slender glabrous 

 red pendant 2 to 3 cm long stalks, generally solitary from the 

 leaf axils or from their scars; flowers densely clustered at the 

 distal end of the peduncle, odorless, upon umhellately dis- 

 posed triads; pedicels of triads 2 to 3 mm long, glabrate, sub- 

 articulate but not bracteate at the base, terminated by an in- 

 volucre of 3 sharply pointed thick bracts; calyx sessile, its 

 basal portion green, otherwise red, turbinate, 3 mm long, te- 

 rete, gradually thickened from base toward apex, truncate, the 

 short rim-like portion roundly enlarged; corolla 0.5 cm long or 

 longer, deep blood red except the yellow apical segments, gradual- 

 ly expanded toward the apex, pulverulent on the exterior, other- 

 wise glabrous; segments 5, ligulate, averaging 2 mm wide, the 

 nearly 1 cm long apical portion reflexed in anthesis and 

 puberulent on the dorsal side, tips obtuse; stamens as many as 

 corolla segments and opposite them; filaments also reddish, 

 erect, compressed, inserted upon the throat, also glabrous, 5 

 mm long; anther yellow, biisifixed, 1 mm shorter, about as 

 wide as the filaments, basifixed, apex obtusely rounded, in- 



trorse; style yellowish above the middle, terete, 4 cm long, 

 smooth, 0.75 mm thick, bearing a subglobose green stigma. 

 Type specimen number 14092, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

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

 ober, 1912. 



Discovered this high alpine Loranthv* upon inclining 

 trunks and limb3 of the moss laden cold and summit peaks 

 at 6000 feet altitude of the mountain after which it is 

 named. The vernacular Manobo name is "Sinangson." 



Our present new species is distinct from the low valley 

 species, Loranthus agmanensis Elm., in having its triads arrang- 

 ed umhellately rather than spicately. Not Loranthus halconensU 

 Merr. because of small leaves, more slender peduncles, shorter 

 calyx and with longer corollas. 



Loranthus curtiflora Elm. n. sp. 



Epiphytic; stem 3 dm long or longer, few to several, 

 rebranched, ascending, crooked and nodulose, roughened with 

 raull blunt excrescences; the short ultimate ones compressed, 



