November 29, 1913] Loranthus from Mount Urdaneta 1965 



green, glabrous, the internodal portion usually expanded toward 

 the distal end. Leaves opposite, rather numerous along the 

 ultimate branchlets f leaving large scars after falling, ascend- 

 ing, rigidly coriaceous, nearly flat, obovately elliptic, glab- 

 rous, curing black on both sides, the entire margins eubinvolute 

 in the dry state, somewhat paler green beneath, rounded at apex, 

 broadly obtuse at base, 6 cm by 3 cm wide at or a trifle above 

 the middle, frequently smaller; petiole 5 mm long at least, 

 glabrous, black on the dry specimens; midrib rather prominent 

 beneath only; lateral nerves oblique, 3 to 5 pairs, relatively 

 obscure, branched or anastomosing toward their tips, slightly 

 plainer on the upper side, reticulations obscure. Spikes solitary 

 but from all leaf axils, strict, ascending, 1 cm long or less, 

 also glabrous, black, subterete, heavy, at its end with 1 to 3 

 flowers; flowers deciduous, upon 3 to 5 mm long glabrous 

 pedicels or subsessile; pedicels stout, articulate at the base, 

 divaricate except the terminal usually shorter one at the dis- 

 tal end provided with a whorl of 3 bluntly pointed persistent 

 bracts; calyx a trifle shorter though thicker, yellowish green, 

 cylindric, terminated by an expanded truncate rim; corolla 

 inflated, glabrous, 1,5 cm long, deep yellow; the 6 segments 

 separating down to the middle and ultimately to the base, linearly 

 oblong, 4.5 mm wide across the middle, occasionally a trifle un- 

 equal in size, narrowed toward both ends; the reflexed portion 

 greenish in color, about 5 mm long, obovately oblong from the 

 back side, bearing upon the ventral surface a prominent triangu- 

 larly shaped fleshy appendage; stamens 5, inserted a trifle be- 

 low the corolla throat and opposite the segments; filaments 

 subterete, 1 to 2 mm long, fleshy, glabrous, adnate to the whole 

 length of the corolla, erect; anther purplish, basifixed, nearly 

 3 mm long, as wide as the filament, truncately rounded at 

 apex; style terminated by a flattened capitate stigma. Young 



fruits subglaucous. 



Type specimen number 14089, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

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

 ober, 1912. 



In the humid cold and mossy summit peak of Masay or 

 mount Urdaneta at 6000 feet altitude. "Imbay" is its ver- 

 nacular Manobo name. 



