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Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Talisay, on tall trees, altitude 40 to 

 50 meters. For. Bur. 13788 Foxworthy, DeMesa, & Villmnil, June 19, 1912. 



A species well characterized by its ovate, sessile leaves which are acute 

 or acuminate at the apex and rounded at the base, by its axillary, very 

 short, few-flowered inflorescences, and its much inflated corollas which are 

 cylindric below and sharply and prominently 6-angled above. 



LORANTHUS LAGUNENSIS sp. nov. § Dendrophtho'e. 



Frutex glaber; foliis coriaceis, ovatis vel oblongo-ovatis, 

 brunneis, oppositis, breviter petiolatis, usque ad 11 cm longis; 

 floribus 6-meris, sessilibus, circiter 1.7 cm longis, in fasciculis 

 axillaribus vel lateralibus dense confertis, fasciculis vix involu- 

 cratis, circiter 8-floris. 



A glabrous shrub, the branches very stout, rough, brownish 

 or grayish, the ultimate ones about 5 mm in diameter, lenticel- 

 late. Leaves opposite, thickly coriaceous, ovate to oblong-ovate, 

 6 to 11 cm long, 3.5 to 6.5 cm wide, brown when dry and some- 

 what shining on both surfaces, the lower a little paler than the 

 upper, the apex obtuse, the base usually acute; lateral nerves 

 about 7, very obscure or subobsolete, the reticulations entirely 

 obsolete; petioles stout, about 5 mm long. Inflorescence of 

 solitary, sessile, axillary or at the nodes, very dense, non-in- 

 volucrate fascicles, about 8 flowers in each fascicle. Flowers 

 sessile, subtended by a solitary bracteole which is reniform, 

 rounded, about 2 mm wide and 1.5 to 2 mm long. Calyx globose 

 or ovoid, 2 mm long, truncate. Corolla about 1.5 cm long, the 

 tube 1.5 mm long, the lobes 6, linear, narrow, the reflexed part 

 above the insertion of the stamens thick, obtuse, 4 mm long. 

 Anthers linear-lanceolate, acuminate, sessile, 3.5 mm long. 



Luzon, Province of Laguna, Dahican River back of San Antonio, Bur. 

 Sci. 1506U Ramos, June, 1912, host not indicated. 



A species apparently in the group with Loranthus haenkeanus Presl, 

 in spite of the differences in the characters of the inflorescence in the 

 species. If the fascicles were involucrate the species might well be placed 

 in the section Lepiostegeres, but there is quite no indication of an involucre 

 in the material examined. 



LORANTHUS FENICIS sp. nov. § Dendrophtho'e. 



Frutex parasiticus, inflorescentiis exceptis glaber, ramis ramu- 

 lisque teretibus; foliis alternis, ovatis, opacis, crasse coriaceis, 

 usque ad 10 cm longis, acutis vel acuminatis, basi late rotundatis, 

 nervis utrinque circiter 5, obscuris vel obsoletis; pedunculis 

 solitariis, axillaribus, floribus umbellatim dispositis; floribus 

 5-meris, circiter 3.3 cm longis, extus puberulis, in triadibus 

 dispositis, omnibus sessilibus. 



A species manifestly allied to Loranthus haenkeanus, differing 



