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acute or cuneate; lateral nerves 4 or 5 on each side of the mid- 

 rib, indistinct, slender; petioles about 1 cm long. Heads axil- 

 lary, solitary, sessile, but the flowers quite enclosed by imbricated 

 bracts, forming a globose head. Flowers 6-merous, about 5 

 in each head, sessile. Calyx 2 mm long, truncate. Corolla 1.6 

 cm long, the lobes free nearly to the base, the reflexed part 

 above the insertion of the stamens 4 mm long. Anther erect, 

 sessile, 4 mm long. 



Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Sax River Mountains back of San 

 Ramon, Merrill 8270, November 28, 1911, parasitic on Englehardtia, altitude 

 about 1100 m. 



Allied to Loranthus williamsii Merr., but with much shorter flowers. 



OLACACEAE. 



CANSJERA Juss. 



CANSJERA RHEEDII Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1 (1791) 280; Mast, in Hook. f. 

 Fl. Brit, Ind. 1 (1875) 582. 

 Cansjera scandens Roxb. PI. Coromandel 1 (1795) 582. 

 Cansjera malabarica Lam. Encycl. 3 (1791) 433. 



SiBUTU Island, Sulu Archipelago, Merrill 5291, October 13, 1906, in 

 thickets along the seashore. 



India to southern China, through Malaya to northern Australia; the 

 genus new to the Philippines. 



Gmelin's specific name is here retained as being the one in common use. 

 Lamarck's Cansjera malabarica was, however, published during the same 

 year, and it will be difficult if not impossible to determine which has 

 priority. 



The species has previously been reported from the Philippines by 

 Meisner," but solely on Blanco's error in interpreting the species. The 

 species Blanco referred here is an Antidesma. 



MENISPERMACEAE. 



STEPHANIA Lour. 

 STEPHANIA RAMOSII Diels sp. nov. 



Caulis scandens glaber. Foliorum petiolus 4.5 ad 5 cm longus, 

 lamina peltata, papyracea, supra fere lucida, subtus paulo pal- 

 lidior, triangulari-ovata, apice acuta, acuminato-mucronulata, 8 

 ad 9 cm longa, 4 ad 5.5 cm lata. Inflorescentiae S pseudo- 

 racemosae, 5 ad 7 cm longae; pedicelli 1.5 ad 2 mm longi. Sep- 

 ala 6, 3 exteriora anguste spathulato-oblonga, 1.5 mm longa, 

 0.4 mm lata, 3 interiora latiora, elliptico-ovata, concava, cir- 

 citer 1.2 mm longa, 0.8 mm lata. Petala 5 conchiformia vel 



= DC. Prodr. 14 (1857) 519. 



