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in its few-flowered umbels and in its flowers all being sessile, the 

 lateral ones of each triad not pedicelled. Branches stout, terete, 

 grayish or reddish-brown, the branchlets grayish-brown, terete, 

 rather slender, the internodes 1 to 3 cm long. Leaves alternate, 

 thickly coriaceous, opaque and rather pale or brownish when dry, 

 ovate, 5 to 10 cm long, 3.5 to 6 cm wide, the apex acute or acumi- 

 nate, the base broadly rounded; lateral nerves usually about 5 

 on each side of the midrib, obscure, sometimes obsolete ; petioles 

 about 8 mm long. Umbels solitary, in the axils of leaves on the 

 larger branches, gray-puberulent, the peduncles about 1.5 cm long, 

 the primary umbellately arranged branches few, about 6 mm 

 long, each bearing at its apex a triad of three sessile flowers, the 

 subtending bracteoles triangular-ovate, acute, 2.5 mm long, 

 puberulent. Calyx pubescent, narrowly obovoid, 4 mm long, the 

 limb slightly produced, obscurely and broadly 5-toothed. Corolla 

 puberulent, in bud cylindric, the tube about 6 mm long, the lobes 

 5, about 1.5 mm wide, the part above the insertion of the stamens 

 narrowly oblong, 6 to 7 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, acute. Fila- 

 ments 4 to 5 mm long; anthers continuous, oblong, obtuse, 2 to 

 2.5 mm in length. 



Mindanao, District of Davao, Baganga, Bur. Sci. 15852 Fenix, August 

 20, 1912, the flowers green and purplish. 



LORANTHUS MARITIMUS sp. nov. § Dendrophthoe. 



Frutex epiphyticus inflorescentiis exceptis glaber; ramis 

 ramuhsque teretibus; foliis alternis oppositisque, oblongis, in 

 siccitate pallidis, utrinque concoloribus, opacis, usque ad 8 cm 

 longis, petiolatis, nervis obsoletis vel subobsoletis ; inflorescentiis 

 e ramis vetustioribus, pedunculatis, umbellato-subcapitatis, 

 pedunculatis ; floribus circiter 3.3 cm longis, 5-meris. 



A parasitic shrub glabrous except the inflorescence. Branches 

 stout, terete, reddish-brown, the branchlets terete, slender, gray- 

 ish, the ultimate internodes 2 mm in diameter or less, up to 3 

 cm in length, frequently much shorter. Leaves oblong, alternate, 

 opposite or subopposite, coriaceous, uniformly pale when dry, 

 opaque, 5 to 8 cm long, 1.5 to 3 cm wide, the apex rounded or 

 obtuse, the base acute; midrib prominent below, frequently 

 evanescent below the apex, the lateral nerves entirely obsolete 

 or very faint and about 3 on each side of the midrib, ascending; 

 petioles about 5 mm long. Inflorescence from the larger 

 branches, lateral, not axillary, scattered along the internodes, 

 the peduncles 1.5 to 2 cm long, all parts gray-puberulent. Pri- 

 mary branches umbellately arranged at the apex of the pedun- 



