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ippine Government, through whose invitation I was able to send a collector 

 with him on his southern trip of inspection in 1912. 



LORANTHUS ELMERI sp. nov. § Macrosolen. 



Frutex parasiticus, glaber, ramis ramulisque teretibus; foliis 

 oblongo-ovatis, crassissime coriaceis, oppositis, breviter petiolatis, 

 usque ad 14 cm longis, sursum angustatis, obtusis vel obscure 

 acuminatis, basi acutis, nervis lateralibus obscuris, utrinque cir- 

 citer 7; racemis brevissimis, paucifloris, axillaribus, solitariis 

 vel fasciculatis, baud 1 cm longis; floribus 6-meris, circiter 1.8 

 cm longis, basi bracteis bracteolisque 2 ornatis, pedicellis circiter 

 1.5 mm longis- 



A parasitic shrub, quite glabrous, the branches and branchlets 

 gray or grayish-brown, stout, terete. Leaves opposite, very 

 thickly coriaceous, oblong-ovate, 8 to 15 cm long, 3.5 to 5 cm 

 wide, brownish-olivaceous when dry, the upper surface shining, 

 narrowed upward to the acute or obscurely acuminate apex, the 

 base acute ; lateral nerves very faint, about 6 on each side of the 

 midrib ; petioles stout, 4 to 8 mm long. Inflorescence of axillary, 

 solitary and fascicled, very short, few-flowered racemes, the 

 racemes 1 cm long or less. Flowers 6-merous, their pedicels 1 

 to 1.5 mm long, each bearing at its apex one, broadly ovate, acute, 

 1.5 mm long bract and two smaller but similar bracteoles which 

 are usually more or less connate. Calyx ovoid, about 3 mm 

 long, truncate. Corolla 1.5 cm long, the tube about 6 mm 

 long, 3.5 mm in diameter, somewhat inflated and obscurely 

 angled, the lobes 6, rather abruptly narrowed, about 1 mm wide 

 below the insertion of the stamen, the reflexed parts thickened 

 upward, 7 mm long, acute or obtuse; filament about 3.5 mm 

 long; anther continuous, 2 mm long. 



Palawan, Mount Pulgar, Elmer 127^9 (type), 13138, March and May, 

 1911, both distributed as Loranthus mirabilis Huerk & Muell.-Arg., a 

 species that is quite different and which belongs in an entirely different 

 section. 



The alliance of Loranthus elmeri is with L. ampullaceus Roxb. It is 

 readily distinguished, however, by its very short racemes. 



LORANTHUS SERIATUS sp. nov. § Heteranthus. 



Frutex parasiticus glaber, ramis ramulisque teretibus, inter- 

 nodiis elongatis; foliis oppositis, breviter petiolatis, oblongo- 

 ovatis, coriaceis, opacis, usque ad 12 cm longis, apice breviter 

 obtuseque acuminatis, basi acutis, nervis lateralibus obscuris, 

 circiter 6 utrinque, subobsoletis ; floribus 5-meris, circiter 2.5 

 cm longis, in triadibus breviter pedunculatis dispositis, triadibus 



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