280 ^^^ Philippine Jowmal of Science 1914 



ulent, reniform, about 2.5 mm wide, 1.5 mm long, rounded. 

 Flowers 5-merous, orange, the tips of the petals glaucous. Calyx 

 cylindric, 5 mm long, puberulent, the limb slightly produced, 

 very obscurely crenulate or entire. Corolla 12 mm long, puber- 

 ulent externally, slightly inflated, cylindric, the lobes united for 

 the basal 3 to 4 mm, forming a tube, the reflexed part above 

 the insertion of the anthers oblong, obtuse, 2.5 mm long. 

 Anther lanceolate, sessile, 2 mm long. 



Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, coast opposite Olutanga Island, For. 

 Bur. 13297 Foxicorthy, De Mesa, & Villamil, May 18, 1912, on Hopea sp., 

 altitude about 20 meters. 



A very characteristic species, recognizable by its opposite, sessile, coria- 

 ceous leaves which are rounded at the apex and cordate at the base, its 

 few-flowered, axillary, puberulent inflorescences, and puberulent flowers. 

 In leaf-form it is quite similar to Loranthiis merrillii Elm., but is entirely 

 different in its inflorescence. 



LORANTHUS DEMESAE sp. nov. § Dendrophthoe. 



Frutex glaber, ramis ramulisque teretibus; foliis oppositis, 

 sessilibus, coriaceis, nitidis, usque ad 10 cm longis, ovatis 

 vel late elliptico-ovatis, apice acutis vel leviter acuminatis, basi 

 rotundatis, reticulatis; nervis utrinque circiter 10, tenuibus; in- 

 florescentiis axillaribus, solitariis, brevibus, paucifloris; floribus 

 circiter 2 cm longis 6-meris; corolla inflata, infra cylindrica, 

 supra acute 6-angulata. 



A glabrous parasitic shrub the branches and branchlets terete, 

 brownish or somewhat grayish, smooth. Leaves opposite, ses- 

 sile, coriaceous, shining when dry, brownish-olivaceous, of about 

 the same color on both surfaces, 6 to 10 cm long, 4 to 6 cm wide, 

 the apex acute or somewhat acuminate, the base rounded ; lateral 

 nerves about 10 on each side of the midrib, slender, not promi- 

 nent, the reticulations rather fine, the lateral nerves anastomosing 

 near the margin. Inflorescence axillary, solitary, few-flowered, 

 the rachis 5 mm long or less, the flowers 2 or 3 (rarely more?). 

 Calyx oblong-cylindric, truncate, 3 mm long, 1.8 mm in diameter. 

 Corolla red, about 18 mm long, much inflated, 6 mm in diameter, 

 the lower one-half cylindric, the upper part sharply and promi- 

 nently 6-angled, the tube two-thirds to three-fourths as long as 

 the corolla, the lobes about 4 mm wide at the base, narrowed to 

 the insertion of the anthers and there 2 mm wide, thence 

 gradually narrowed to the acute or obtuse apex, the reflexed 

 portion above the insertion of the anthers 5 to 6 mm long, 

 lanceolate. Anthers oblong, 2 mm long, much more slender than 

 are the thick, cylindric, 2.5 mm long filaments. 



