XIII. c. 5 Merrill: Noteworthy Philippine Plants 279 



elliptic, keeled, 7 to 11 mm long, 3.5 to 6 mm wide. Flowers 

 6-merous, red, sessile, each triad subtended by a bracteole. 

 Calj^ cylindric, somewhat thickened upward, 3 mm long, the 

 limb produced about 1 mm, somewhat spreading, thin, more or 

 less crenate-lacerate. Corolla in bud about 18 mm long, cylin- 

 dric, somewhat enlarged in the median portion, the lobes wholly 

 united for the lower 5 mm, the free parts 1.5 mm wide below, 

 narrowed upward, the part above the insertion of the anther 

 linear, reflexed, 3.5 mm long, acute. Anther linear, subsessile, 

 2.5 mm long. 



Samar, Caminiwan on the Catubig River, Bur. Sci. 24135 Ramos, Feb- 

 ruary 8, 1916, at low altitudes. 



A species of the section Macrosolen not very closely allied to the others 

 of this group known from the Philippines. The elliptic to oblong-elliptic, 

 carinate bracteoles, one bracteole subtending each triad of sessile flowers, 

 are characteristic. 



LORANTHUS SPRAGUEI nom. nov. 



Loranthus pubiflorus Merr. in Philip, Journ. Sci. 7 (1912) Bot. 263, 

 non Sprague. 

 Mr. T. A. Sprague of the Royal Gardens, Kew, England, has kindly called 

 my attention to the fact that Loranthus pubiflorus Merr. is a name pre- 

 occupied by the African L. pubiflorus Sprague, the latter published a few 

 months before the Philippine one, and I accordingly propose the above new 

 name for the Philippine form described by me. 



LORANTHUS PALAWANENSIS nom. nov. 



Loranthus fragilis Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 9 (1914) Bot. 278, non 

 Sprague. 



Loranthus fragilis Sprague was published in 1910 for an African species, 

 and accordingly the Philippine form described by me in 1914 under the same 

 specific name is here called Loranthus palawanensis Merr. 



ELYTRANTHE Blume 

 ELYTRANTHE ACURAE sp. nov. 



Frutex parasiticus, glaber, ramis ramulisque teretibus; foliis 

 oppositis, coriaceis, in siccitate pallide brunneo-olivaceis, nitidis, 

 ovatis ad oblongo-ovatis, usque ad 18 cm longis, acuminatis, basi 

 rotundatis, nervis utrinque circiter 8, distantibus, subtus sub- 

 prominentibus ; racemis axillaribus, brevibus, paucifloris, bracte- 

 olis usque ad ^ connatis; floribus 6-meris, curvatis, circiter 5 

 cm longis. 



A parasitic glabrous shrub, the branches and branchlets pale- 

 brownish, terete, smooth, the internodes 3.5 to 11 cm long. 

 Leaves opposite, coriaceous, ovate to oblong-ovate, about 18 cm 

 long, 8 to 9 cm wide, apex prominently acuminate, base rounded, 

 when dry pale-brownish-olivaceous, shining; lateral nerves about 



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