November 29, 1913] Loranthus from Mount Urdaxkta 1969 



tember, 1912. 



Collected from limbs of large trees in a steep forested 

 ravine at 3000 feet altitude, between Duros and Cawilanan 

 peaks on the Dalahion river side. Its Manobo name is 



"Taydoan." 



Loranthus merrillu Elm, as to inflorescence, but our 

 leaves are distinctly nerved, apices more acuminate and with 

 less rounded bases. 



Loranthus preslii Elm. n sp. 



' Creeping or subscandent along small tree trunks or limbs 

 of large trees; stem 1.25 cm thick, terete but crooked; main 

 branches rigid, ascending, sparingly rebranched, also terete and 

 rather smooth, the terminal portion angular. Leaves rigid and 

 easily breaking with a snap, alternate to subopposite but 

 usually in whorls of 3, the sharp acuminate point recurved, 

 folded upon the upper duller green surface, drying dull reddish 

 brown, broadly lanceolate or narrowly elongated, entire, the 

 average blades 1 dm long by 2.5 cm wide below the middle, 

 frequently longer and broader, base obtuse or subrounded in 

 the large leaves; petiole stout, 1.5 to 3 cm long, flat when 

 dry, glabrous, leaving large scars after falling; midrib quite 

 conspicuous toward the base, lateral nerves very obscure, about 

 4 to 6 on each side. Inflorescent clusters chiefly along the 

 branches, occasionally along the stem, solitary or 2 to 3-cluster- 

 ed; peduncle pendantly recurved, 1 cm long, yellowish brown 

 velutinous, bearing at its distal end a dense umbel of triads; 

 pedicels thick, 1 to 2 mm long, even more densely velutinous, 

 articulate and ebracteate at base, terminated by an involucre 

 of 3 sharply pointed bracts, similar in vestiture; flowers in 

 groups of 3 and sessile, pendant, odorless, limp, each flower 

 subtended by a thick and rather acuminate pointed bract, the 

 stalk as well as the back of the bracts puberulent; calyx 

 yellowish green, cylindric though narrower at the base, very 

 finely and rather densely pubescent, 4.5 mm long, about one 

 half as wide as thick across the 5 irregularly apiculate apex, 

 incarnatus except the green apical portion; corolla tube straight 

 and nearly equal in thickness, 2.5 mm long, puberulent on 

 the exterior; segments 5, separating nearly to the base, linear, 



