November 29, 1913] Loranthus from Mount Urdaneta 19*1 



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sides, the slenderly and sharply acuminate apex recurved or 

 apices bluntly obtuse in the large leaves, base rounded or 

 in the large leaves obscure, cordate and frequently a trifle 

 inequilateral, very unequal in size, the smaller ones broadly 

 lanceolate, the larger ones oblong or ovately oblong, 15 to 20 cm 

 long by nearly one half as wide below the middle though fre- 

 quently smaller; midrib brownish, raised beneath and pul- 

 verulent in the young state, plane above; lateral nerves 5 

 to 9 pairs, only obscurely visible from the upper surface, 

 divaricate, strict, reticulations none; petiole 5 to 8 mm long, 

 relatively very thick, plane on the upper side, yellowish 

 pulverulent when young. Inflorescence upon terminal slender 

 flexible pendent 1 dm long or shorter branchlets; rachis 

 phort or 1 to 3 cm long, ascendingly curved, deciduous, yel- 

 lowish green, light fulvus puberulent or pulverulent, generally 

 solitary though occasionally 2 to 3-clustered, suberect; flowers 

 odorless, erect, crowded, deciduous, falling from base toward 

 apex, in threes upon cupular broadly 3-toothed triads dense- 

 ly arranged along the entire upper side of ,the rachis, all 

 similar in vestiture; calyx angular, red, subglabrous, 2 mm 

 long, with a membranously margined subtruncate or roundly 

 toothed expanded rim and obscurely fusiformly thickened be- 

 low the middle; corolla tubular, conspicuously constricted 

 toward the base and more or less angular, again slightly 

 enlarged, nearly 3 cm long, glabrous and smooth; segments 

 6, deep fiery red or ultimately light purpureus, separating 

 nearly to the base, 1.75 mm wide a trifle below the middle, 

 the 6 mm long distal portion strongly reflexed in anthesis, 

 obtusely pointed and puberulent on the dorsal side; stamens 

 of an equal number, oppositely inserted upon the segments 

 o( the corolla at its throat; filaments flattened, smooth, 2 

 mm long, erect, strict; anthers yellowish and as long, basi- 

 fixed, gradually tapering from the base to the very sharply 

 pointed apex. fc 



Type specimen number 14156, A. D. E % Elmer, Cabadbaran 

 (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, October, 1912. 



Discovered this low scandent undershrub in dense humid 

 woods in the vicinity of lake Doiiao at 5000 feet altitude, 

 in more or less stony soil. The Manobo3 call it "Anting- 

 Anting. ?? 



