U)66 Leaflets of Philippine Botany I Vol. VI, Art. OK 



Loranthus surigaoensis Elm* n. sp. 



Epiphytic and subparasitic, upon the uppermost limbs of 

 trees; stem* ascending, branched from near the base, bendable; 

 wood whitish and pith brown, covered with a smooth brown 

 bark. Leaves opposite, copious, ascending, thickly coriaceous, 

 blackish when dry, flat, often appearing somewhat inequilateral 

 entire, sharply or bluntly acuminate, the larger ones 4 cm 

 long by 1.25 cm wide across the middle or just below it, 

 base obtuse or cuneate, glabrous; midrib black and conspicuous 

 beneath; lateral ascending nerves about 3 to 4 on each side 



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and very minute or obscure, reticulations none; petiole 3 to 

 5 cm. long, similar to the midrib in color both in the fresh 

 and in the dry state. Panicle ascending, strict, slender, solitary 

 or in axillary pairs, less than 1 cm long, glabrous, normally 

 terminated by 2 divaricate flowers; pedicel 1 to 3 mm long, 

 articulate at the base, terminated by a broadly 3 -toothed 

 cupular rim; calyx cylindric, glabrous, green, solitary and 

 sessile, its rim relatively broad and truncate, bud corolla 

 1.25 cm long, glabrous, ovately elongated, striately ridged 

 on the exterior, apparently becoming 6- segmented, the distal 

 portion becoming reflexed; stamens 6, opposite the segments 

 and irvserted upon the throat, anthers introrse; style smooth, 

 as long as the corolla with stamens, terete and fleshy, slightly 

 thickened toward the greenish stigma. 



Type specimen number 14098, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 



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

 ober, 1912. 



Small bunches upon Quercus vidalii Vil. in the wet forested 

 depression between the two to three summit peaks of Urda- 

 neta at 6250 feet altitude. 



* 



Related to the preceding. ■ 



Loranthus tniniatus Elm. n. sp. 



Epiphytic and part parasitic, upon a tree; branches 1 to 

 nearly 2 ra long, freely rebranched; twigs green and terete, 2.5 

 cm thick at the base, sprinkled with minute lenticels. Leaves 

 descending, flat, opposite, widely scattered, 



coriaceous 



quite a little paler green beneath, sessile, entire, curing caesius 



