November 29, 1913] Loranthus from Mount Urdaneta 19fi7 



threw 



on both sides, variable in zise and generally with some defect 

 or even broken, ovate in outline except for the slenderly 

 tapering acuminate usually subfalcate apex, b.ise broadly round- 

 ed and somewhat cordate, 2 dm in length more or less, relatively 

 1 dm wide below the middle, glabrous; midrib very stout and 

 compressed especially toward the base; lateral nerves 6 to 9 

 on each side, slightly raised or prominent beneatb, the basal 

 ones divaricate, the upper ones ascending and the much ascend- 

 ingly curved tips united, reticulations none. Inflorescence 

 occasionally terminal, usually axillary; spikes horizontal, dark 

 reddish brown, 5 to 8 cm long, terete, solitary or in 

 glabrous, alternatingly bearing small groups of flowers; flowers 

 erect, solitary or in small sessile groups, vermillion red from the 

 base to within two thirds of the top, then a white or creamy white 

 band and the apical one third murinus in color; calyx nearly 

 5 mm long, 2 mm thick, angularly terete especially at the 

 slightly enlarged base, glabrous, densely glandular, the rotately 

 spreading rim truncate or obscurely lobulate, the marginal por- 

 tion very thin and finely lacerate; corolla 3 cm long, glabrous, 

 slender in the bud state, only the external apical portion 

 strongly reflexed, the lobe3 ultimately splitting clear down to 

 the base, leathery, 2 mm wide at the base, gradually tapering to 

 the thick apical portion which is less than one half as wide; 



stamens 



oppo 



site the corolla segments at or a trifle below the throat; an- 

 thers 5 mm long, narrowly linear, 0.5 mm wide, the connective 



nearly black, the cell walls 



tapering 



a tine point; style as long as the corolla and of the same color, 

 terete, very obscurely constricted at the base. 



Type specimen number 13276, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

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



1912. 



Collected upon a species of Canarium on a forested ridge 



at 1250 feet altitude. "Payan" in Manobo. 



Both of my Loranthus merrillii and Loranthus aurantiacus 

 have their flowers upon triads. 



Loranthus aurantiacus Elm. n. sp. 



Epiphytic and part parasitic, upon limbs of trees; stems 

 several or few, widely spreading, rebranched, covered with a 



