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SO, reddish-brown; branchlets somewhat crowded, leafless in 

 their lower parts, the leaves rather crowded above the middle. 

 Leaves subcoriaceous, brittle when dry, brownish, oblong-ovate 

 or oblong, 2.5 to 5 cm long, 1 to 2 cm wide, acute or somewhat 

 acuminate, base somewhat cordate, equilateral or subequilateral, 

 the upper surface scabrid, usually with few hairs along the 

 midrib, the lower surface of about the same color as the upper, 

 prominently pubescent with pale hairs on the midrib, lateral 

 nerves, and primary reticulations, the ultimate reticulations close, 

 evident on both surfaces, margins closely and finely coriaceous- 

 serrulate ; lateral nerves about 5 on each side of the midrib, prom- 

 inent, ascending, impressed on the upper surface; petioles 

 densely pale-villous, about 2 mm long. Cymes axillary, few- 

 flowered, pubescent, 4 to 7 mm long. Flowers 5-merous. Male 

 flowers: Sepals 5, elliptic to elliptic-ovate, concave, about 1.8 mm 

 long, imbricate, glabrous except the slightly ciliate margins. 

 Stamens 5. Pistillode cylindric, truncate, 1 mm long, glabrous, 

 except the distinctly ciliate base. Female flowers similar to the 

 males, the style-arms 1 mm long. Fruit reddish, 2.5 mm long, 

 ovoid, fleshy, glabrous, more or less wrinkled when dry, the seed 

 subglobose, about 1.2 mm in diameter. 



Camiguin de Mindanao, in thickets on slopes of the old volcano, Bur. Sci. 

 H600 Ramos, April 27, 1912. 



A specie^ well characterized by its depauperate size, small crowded 

 leaves, short petioles and cymes, and other characters. It resembles 

 somewhat Trema amboinensis Blume, and is undoubtedly allied to that 

 species, but is quite distinct in many essential characters. 



LORANTHACEAE. 



LORANTHUS L. 

 LORANTHUS CONFUSUS sp. nov. § Cichlanthus. 



Frutex parasiticus, ramis elongatis, tenuibus, ramulis subtus 

 foliis inflorescentiisque indumento stellato-leproso pallido dense 

 obtecto; foliis oppositis, breviter petiolatis, oblongis ad anguste 

 elliptico-oblongis, rotundatis vel acutis, usque ad 5.5 cm longis; 

 racemis brevibus, paucifloris; floribus 4-meris, corolla 12 mm 

 longa. 



A slender parasitic shrub, the branches elongated, the branch- 

 lets terete, about 1 mm thick, these, the lower surfaces of the 

 leaves and the inflorescence densely covered with a pale, stellate- 

 leprose indumentum, the tips of the branchlets sometimes fer- 

 rugineous. Leaves opposite, coriaceous, oblong to narrowly 

 elliptic-oblong, 2 to 5.5 cm long, 8 to 20 mm wide, apex rounded 



