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in ramis seriatim dispositis et ad nodos f asciculatis ; petalis 

 intus ad basim ligulatis. 



A parasitic glabrous shrub, the branches and branchlets 

 terete, reddish-brown, smooth except where the flowers are 

 borne, the internodes 10 to 15 cm long, the ultimate branchlets 

 about 2 mm in diameter. Leaves opposite, coriaceous, oblong- 

 ovate, 8 to 12 cm long, about 5 cm wide, greenish-olivaceous on 

 both surfaces when dry, not shining, the apex shortly and obtusely 

 acuminate, the base acute, sometime a little decurrent; lateral 

 nerves slender, very obscure, nearly obsolete, about 6 on each 

 side of the midrib; petioles 3 to 5 mm long. Flowers red, 

 5-merous, the peduncles of the double triads stout, 2 mm long, 

 fascicled at the nodes and also numerous ones seriately arranged, 

 along one side of the branches along the internodes. Flowers 

 6 on each peduncle, sessile in two triads, each flower subtended 

 by a reniform-orbicular, rounded, obscurely pubescent, 2 mm 

 long bracteole. Calyx cylindric, 3.5 to 4 mm long, the limb 

 produced about 1 mm, truncate, minutely ciliate-pubescent. 

 Buds cylindric. Petals 5, free, 1.8 mm wide below, 1.5 mm 

 wide above, 2 to 2.2 cm long, the reflexed part above the insertion 

 of the stamens 6 to 7 mm long, each petal with a membrana- 

 ceous, reflexed, ovate, obtuse, 1 mm long, ligule-like organ on the 

 inner side attached about 3 mm above the base. Filaments 

 about 2 mm long; anthers continuous, linear, 3 to 4 mm long. 



Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Mount Pulongbato, Bur. Sci. 161t2U 

 RciJlo, September 28, 1912. 



A very characteristic species, distinguishable by its peculiarly arranged 

 flowers, the flowers sessile in double triads on very short peduncles which 

 are fascicled at the nodes and serially arranged along one side of the 

 internodes. The peculiar ligule-like growth on the inner surface of the 

 petals shortly above the base is characteristic, both of the present species 

 and of the very similar and closely allied Loranthus cauliflorus Merr. 

 Loranthus seriatus is distinguished from L. cauliflorus by its very obscurely 

 veined leaves and its flowers in double triads, that is, 6 flowers in two 

 triads sessile at the apex of each peduncle, not with three flowers only as 

 in the latter species. 



LORANTHUS FALCATI FOLI US sp. nov. § Heteranthus. 



Frutex scandens, glaber, ramulis teretibus; foliis oppositis, 

 usque ad 16 cm longis, brevissime petiolatis, oblongo-lanceolatis, 

 leviter falcatis, coriaceis, opacis, acuminatis, basi acutis vel obtu- 

 sis, nervis utrinque circiter 8, obscuris, subobsoletis ; floribus 

 5-meris, ad nodos fasciculatia, sessilibus, circiter 2.5 cm longis, 

 alabastro cylindraceo. 



A scandent, parasitic, glabrous shrub, the stems long-climbing 

 on the host, the branches and branchlets terete, the latter reddish- 



