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brown or grayish, 3 mm in diameter or less, the internodes 5 to 

 8 cm long. Leaves opposite, subsessile or very shortly petioled, 

 oblong-lanceolate, 10 to 16 cm long, 3 to 6 cm wide, somewhat 

 falcate, not shining, coriaceous, the apex acuminate, the base 

 obtuse or acute, brownish or greenish when dry; lateral nerves 

 subobsolete, about 8 on each side of the midrib, very obscure; 

 petioles 2 mm long or less. Flowers 5-merous, axillary, sessile, 

 fascicled, 12 or less at each node, red below, yellow above, the 

 buds rather slender, cylindric, outside very obscurely pubescent 

 with very short scattered hairs. Calyx 3.5 to 4 mm long, straight 

 or somewhat curved, the limb produced about 2 mm, membrana- 

 ceous, somewhat spreading, truncate, margins minutely ciliate- 

 pubescent. Petals 5, quite free, 1.5 mm wide below, very 

 slightly narrowed upward, the apex obtuse, the reflexed portion 

 above the insertion on the stamens linear-oblong, about 8 mm 

 long, 1 mm wide. Filaments 4 mm long; anthers continuous, 

 linear, 2 mm long. 



Mindanao, Bukidnon Subprovince, Sumilao, on trees in forests, Bur. Sci. 

 15746 Fenix, August 3, 1912. 



A species well characterized by its scandent habit, its opposite, subsessile, 

 subfalcate, obscurely nerved, coriaceous leaves, and its quite sessile, axillary, 

 fascicled flowers. It is perhaps as closely allied to Loranthus cuernosensis 

 Elm. as to any other species, but is very different from that form. 



LORANTHUS MEDINILLICOLA sp. nov. § Heteranthus. 



Frutex scandens, parasiticus, inflorescentiis exceptis glaber; 

 ramulis teretibus, tenuibus; foliis verticillatis, lanceolatis vel 

 ovato-lanceolatis, coriaceis, acuminatis, usque ad 10 cm longis, 

 nervis utrinque 4 vel 5, obscuris ; inflorescentiis axillaribus, soli- 

 tariis, pedunculatis, subumbellatis, paucifloris; floribus 4-meris, 

 circiter 3 cm longis. 



A slender, nearly glabrous, scandent, parasitic shrub, the 

 branches and branchlets rather slender, terete, light-gray or 

 brownish, mostly smooth, the ultimate branchlets 2 mm in 

 diameter or less. Leaves whorled, usually 4 at each node, the 

 internodes 4 to 8 cm long, the leaf-blades coriaceous, lanceolate 

 or oblong-lanceolate, 6 to 10 cm long, 1 to 3.4 cm wide, narrowed 

 below to the acute base and above to the rather slenderly acumi- 

 nate apex, rather dull when dry; lateral nerves 4 or 5 on each 

 side of the midrib, slender, obscure, ascending; petioles 4 to 8 

 mm long. Inflorescence axillary, solitary, the peduncle slender, 

 1.5 to 2 cm long, sparingly pubescent, bearing at its apex 4 or 

 more subumbellately arranged branchlets, each branchlet bear- 

 ing two, spicately arranged, sessile flowers, the branchlets pubes- 

 cent, about 4 mm long. Flowers sessile, 4-merous, bright yellow 



