132 SPECIES BLANCOANAE 
Loranthus paucifiorus Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 235, non Sw.=Loranthus 
tomentosus Blanco op. cit. ed. 2 (1845) 164; ed. 3, 1.(1877) 296, non 
Heyne=LORANTHUS sp. 
Feinandez-Villar considered that the form Blanco described 
was a valid species and retained it as Loranthus pauciflorus 
Blanco. While the species, as described, is certainly a Loran- 
thus, I know of no species that presents all the characters in- 
dicated by Blanco. I strongly suspect that Blanco had specimens 
of Loranthus philippensis Cham. & Schlecht., which he other- 
wise described as Lonicera symphoricarpos and as L. philip- 
pensis, and erroneously described the flowers as 6-merous; this 
is the only known Philippine Loranthus that conforms at all to 
Blanco’s description in other characters, and which, moreover, 
is widely distributed and abundant in the regions from which © 
he secured most of his botanical] material. : 
ELYTRANTHE Blume 
Hillia longifiora Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 235 (sp. nov.); ed. 2 (1845) 165; 
ed. 3, 1 (1877) 297=ELYTRANTHE AMPULLACEA (Roxb.) Engl. 
(Loranthus ampullaceus Roxb.). 
This reduction was originally made by Fernandez-Villar, the 
correctness of which was formerly doubted by me. There is 
no question, however, that Blanco’s description applies wholly 
to Elytranthe ampullacea Engl., at least as that species is rep- 
resented by the specimens cited by me, Philip. Journ. Sci: 4 
(1909) Bot. 146. 
Illustrative specimen from Bosoboso, Rizal Province, Luzon, 
parasitic on Anisoptera thurifera Blume, October, 1916 (Merrill: 
Species Blancoanae No. 1033). 
VISCUM Linnaeus 
Fusanus ? parasitus Blanco FI. Filip. ed. 2 (1845) 53 (sp. nov.); ed. 3. 
1 (1877) 100=VISCUM ORIENTALE Willd. 
Viscum philippense Llanos Frag. Pl. Filip. (1851) 52 (sp. nov.); F.-Vill. 
& Naves in Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. 3, 4* (1880) 38 p. p.=VISCUM 
ORIENTALE Willd. 
-Blaneo’s Fusanus parasitus was reduced by Fernandez-Villar 
to Viscum orientale Willd., which is apparently the correct dis-_ - 
position of it. Viscum philippense Llanos, however, was reduced - ie 
by him to V. articulatum Burm., although Llanos’s description 
in part, as to the leaves: “media verticiladas, aovado-oblongas, 
eoriaceas y lampifias” certainly applies to Viscum orientale 
Willd. It is probable that Llanos based his description on spe- __ 
veimens of Viscum articulatum growing as a parasite on V. 
orientale, as this relationship is occasionally presented by the 
