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below, gradually narrowed upwards to the acute apex, the parts 

 above the insertion of the anthers lanceolate, 5 mm long. 

 Anther sessile, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 4 mm long. 



Mindanao, District of Zamboanga opposite the Island of Olutanga, in 

 forests, altitude 30 meters, For. Bur. 13295 Foxworthy, DeMesa, & Villamil, 

 May 17, 1912. 



A characteristic species probably belonging in the section Lepiostegeres, 

 although the involucre enclosing the buds is composed of a single bract. 

 Its comparatively narrow leaves which are rounded or obtuse at the apex 

 and acute at the base, as well as its 9-flowered, axillary, sessile fascicles 

 are its distinguishing features. 



LORANTHUS WORCESTERI sp. nov. § Macrosolen. 



Glaber, ramis ramulisque teretibus, griseis; foliis oppositis, 

 sessilibus, anguste oblongis ad late ovatis, nitidis, obtusis, basi 

 obtusis, late rotundatis, vel distincte late cordatis, nervis utrin- 

 que 4 ad 8, laxis, irregularis, tenuibus ; inflorescentiis axillaribus, 

 pedunculis solitariis (vel fasciculatis), 3 ad 5 mm longis, 2-floris, 

 floribus sessilibus, 6-meris, circiter 2 cm longis. 



A glabrous, parasitic shrub, the branches and branchlets terete, 

 glabrous, light-gray, the bark slightly wrinkled when dry. 

 Leaves opposite, sessile, exceedingly variable in size, narrowly 

 oblong to broadly ovate, 6 to 11 cm long, 2 to 7 cm wide, pale 

 when dry, shining on both surfaces, the apex obtuse or rounded, 

 the base obtuse, broadly rounded, or broadly and distinctly cor- 

 date ; nerves 4 to 8 on each side of the midrib, slender, irregular, 

 anastomosing, the reticulations lax. Peduncles axillary, solitary 

 or few in each axil, 3 to 5 mm long, each bearing at its apex 

 two sessile flowers, each flower subtended by an ovate, obtuse, 

 3 mm long bract and two similar but smaller, free, orbicular, 

 1.5 mm long bracteoles. Calyx cylindric, about 7 mm long, the 

 limb produced about 1.5 mm, slightly spreading, thin, truncate. 

 Corolla pink and yellow, the lobes 6, very slightly united below, 

 the buds cylindric, in anthesis more or less swollen above the 

 base, lobes 6, about 1.5 cm long, 2.5 mm wide above the base, 

 then narrowed to 1.5 mm at the insertion of the anthers, the 

 produced part above the anthers narrowly oblong, obtuse or 

 acute, very thick, 6 to 7 mm long, about 1.8 mm wide and thick. 

 Anthers sessile, linear, 5 mm long. 



Mindanao, Bukidnon Subprovince, near Sumilao, Bur. Sci. 15673 Fenix, 

 August, 1912. 



A species with much the floral and inflorescence characters of Loranthua 

 geminatus Merr., but not closely allied to that species, being at once distin- 

 guishable by its very diversely shaped sessile leaves. Named in honor of the 

 Honorable Dean C. Worcester, formerly Secretary of the Interior of the Phil- 



