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the internodes not elongated. Leaves opposite, alternate, or 

 somewhat whorled at the lower nodes, thickly coriaceous, opaque, 

 oblong, 4 to 6 cm long, 1.5 to 3 cm wide, acute, the base rounded, 

 obtuse, or acute, usually brownish when dry, slightly or not at 

 all shining, the lateral nerves obsolete; petioles about 1 cm long. 

 Inflorescence axillary, solitary, umbellate, the peduncles about 

 2 cm long, all parts more or less gray-puberulent, each peduncle 

 bearing about 8, umbellately arranged, 5 mm long, primary 

 branches, each branch bearing at its apex a triad of one middle 

 sessile flower and two lateral, very shortly pedicelled flowers, 

 each flower subtended by a broadly ovate, concave, obtuse, 1 to 

 1.5 mm long bracteole, the pedicels of the lateral flowers 2 mm 

 long or less. Flowers 5-merous, reddish or yellowish, about 

 3.3 cm long. Calyx 3 mm long, puberulent, truncate, the limb 

 scarcely produced. Corolla cylindric in bud, the lobes quite 

 united below, forming a 4 mm long tube, the reflexed parts of 

 the lobes above the insertion of the stamens narrowly oblong, 

 obtuse, 5 to 6 mm long, 1 mm wide. Filaments 4 mm long; 

 anthers continuous, oblong, 1.5 mm long. 



Leyte, Mount Ibuni back of Dagami, Bur. Sci. 152^3 Ramos, August 22, 

 1912, growing in the tops of trees. 



A species in the same group with Loranthus haenkeanus Presl, and mani- 

 festly closely allied to that species. It is distinguishable by its very much 

 smaller, differently shaped leaves. 



LORANTHUS HOPEAE sp. nov. § Dendrophthoe. 



Frutex inflorescentiis minute puberulis exceptis glaber; ramis 

 ramulisque teretibus, bi- vel trichotomis, rigidis ; foliis oppositis, 

 crasse coriaceis, sessilibus, ovatis, in siccitate pallidis, nitidis, 

 usque ad 9 cm longis, apice rotundatis, basi late cordatis ; inflores- 

 centiis axillaribus, solitariis, brevibus, paucifloris; floribus extus 

 puberulis, 5-meris, circiter 17 mm longis. 



A parasitic shrub usually less than 50 cm in length, glabrous 

 except the minutely grayish-puberulent inflorescence. Branches 

 and branchlets terete, stiff, brownish or grayish, smooth, di- or 

 trichotomously branched, more or less divaricate, the ultimate 

 branchlets about 2 mm in diameter. Leaves opposite, sessile, 

 ovate, thickly coriaceous, pale and equally shining on both sur- 

 faces when dry, smooth, 5 to 9 cm long, 4 to 6 cm wide, apex 

 broadly rounded, base broadly cordate, often prominently so; 

 lateral nerves 5 or 6 on each si-de of the midrib, very obscure 

 or nearly obsolete. Inflorescence solitary, axillary and at the 

 nodes, minutely puberulent, 2.5 cm long or less, with few, usually 

 4, lateral branches which are less than 1 cm in length, each 

 bearing at its apex 2 or 3 sessile flowers, the bracteoles puber- 



