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cle, 3 mm long or less, stout, rather numerous, each bearing a 

 terminal triad of 3 sessile flowers, the three bracteoles broadly 

 ovate, obtuse, 1.5 mm long, connate below, the persistent calyces 

 after the fall of the corollas appearing like a rather lax globose 

 head. Calyx puberulent, narrowly obovoid, truncate, 3.5 mm 

 long, the limb very slightly produced. Corolla cylindric in bud, 

 3 cm long, purplish and green, puberulent externally, the lobes 

 5, united below and forming a cylindric tube about 6 mm long, 

 the lobes about 1 mm wide below, the reflexed part above the 

 insertion of the stamens linear-oblong, obtuse, 7 mm long, 1 

 mm wide. Filaments 6 mm long; anthers continuous, oblong, 

 obtuse, 2.4 mm long. 



Mindanao, Province of Surigao, Tamano, Bur. Sci. 15824- Fenix, August 

 16, 1912, on trees along the seashore. 



A species manifestly in the same group with Loranthus haenkeanus Presl, 

 but only distantly allied to that species. It is characterized by its inflores- 

 cences being scattered along the older branches, not axillary, rather dense, 

 and its flowers all sessile, the two lateral ones not at all pedicelled as in most 

 of the forms in this group. 



LORANTHUS ALTERN IFOLIUS sp. nov. § Lepiostegeres? 



Frutex glaber, ramis ramulisque teretibus, tenuibus, brunneis, 

 internodiis elongatis; foliis alternis, usque ad 11 cm longis, 

 anguste oblongis ad oblongo-lanceolatis, subcoriaceis, nitidis, 

 petiolatis, apice obtusis, basi acutis ; floribus 6-meris, axillaribus, 

 fasciculatis, sessilibus, 2 cm longis, fasciculis in alabastro in 

 bractea solitaria inclusis. 



A glabrous shrub, the branches elongated, slender, terete, 

 smooth or somewhat striate, dark-brown when dry, the inter- 

 nodes 3 to 9 cm long, the ultimate branchlets 1.5 mm in diameter. 

 Leaves subcoriaceous, brittle when dry, olivaceous, of about the 

 same color and shining on both surfaces, 7 to 11 cm long, 2 to 

 3 cm wide, narrowly oblong to oblong-lanceolate, the apex 

 rounded, the base gradually narrowed, acute ; lateral nerves very 

 slender, obscure or subobsolete, 6 or 7 on each side of the midrib ; 

 petioles 1 to 1.5 cm long. Flowers in sessile, axillary, solitary fas- 

 cicles at the nodes, 9 sessile flowers in each fascicle, in bud entirely 

 enveloped by a single, brown, coriaceous or subcoriaceous bract, 

 which bursts irregularly and falls at anthesis. Bracteoles sub- 

 tending the flowers one to each calyx, orbicular or reniform, 

 about 2 mm long. Calyx 2 mm long and about 2.5 mm in 

 diameter, truncate. Corolla yellow, 6-merous, 18 mm long, 

 cylindric, slightly gibbous, more or less inflated, the lobes united 

 below forming a 5 mm long tube, the free portions 2 mm wide 



