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above, reddish toward the base, about 3 cm long, the basal 

 bracteole narrowly ovate, 1 mm long or less. Calyx narrowly 

 funnel-shaped, pubescent, about 3 mm long, the throat about 

 2.5 mm wide, the limb produced, truncate, obscurely 4-toothed. 

 Petals 4, entirely free, about 2.8 cm long, 2 mm wide, pubescent 

 externally. Filaments 5 to 6 mm long; anthers continuous, 

 narrowly oblong, obtuse, 3.5 mm long. Fruit not seen, said by 

 the collector to be white. 



Luzon, Subprovince of Ifugao, Mount Polls, Bur. Sci. 198^2 McGregor, 

 February 10, 1913, on Medinilla. 



Apparently most closely allied to Loranthus acutus Engl., but with much 

 larger flowers than that species. It also resembles L. polillensis C. B. Rob., 

 in some respects, but has smaller leaves, and more numerous, pubescent 

 flowers. 



OLACACEAE 



WORCESTERIANTHUS genus novum 



Flores unisexuales. Calyx parvus, 5-dentatus, vix auctus. 

 Petala 5, angusta, puberula. Fl. s : Petala valvata. Stamina 

 petala duplopluria, alternatim inaequalia, filamentis gracilis; 

 antherae orbiculari-ovoidae, rimis intus dehiscentibus. Ovarium 

 rudimentum cylindricum, elongatum, puberulum. Fl. ? : Petala 

 imbricata. Stamina vel staminodia nulla. Ovarium ovoideum, 

 glabrum vel basi pubescens, 2-loculare, loculis 1-ovulatis, ovula 

 pendula. Stigma sessile, breviter 2-lobata. Drupa ovoidea vel 

 subovoidea, 2-locellata, carne crasse coriacea vel sublignosa, pu- 

 tamine crustaceo. Arbor dioica, parva, glabra vel subglabra. 

 Folia alterna, ovata vel oblongo-ovata, penninervia, integerrima. 

 Flores parvi, axillari, breviter pedicellati, 6 numerosi, 9 subso- 

 litari. 



WORCESTERIANTHUS CASEARIOIDES sp. nov. 



Arbor parva, usque ad 12 m alt'a, partibus junioribus floribus- 

 Que exceptis glabra; foliis alternis, glabris, ovatis ad oblongo- 

 ovatis, chartaceis, in siccitate nitidis, pallidis, usque ad 15 cm 

 longis, basi acutis vel subrotundatis, apice acuminatis, nervis 

 utrinque circiter 5, distantibus, laxe anastomosantibus, promi- 

 nentibus; floribus parvis, 5-meris, $ circiter 3 mm longis 9 

 paullo longioribus; fructibus solitariis, glabris, circiter 1.5 cm 

 longis, acutis. 



A small tree reaching a height of about 12 m, glabrous except 

 the young branchlets and the flowers, dioecious. Branches gray, 

 terete, slender, the young ones very obscurely angled, the growing 

 tips finely grayish-puberulent. Leaves alternate, exstipulate. 



