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close to the margin, the reticulations slender, obscure; petioles 

 3 to 5 mm long. Spikes short, mostly less than 2 cm long, glab- 

 rous, each with few fruits. Cups shallow, cinereous-puberulent, 

 about 1.3 cm in diameter, the lamellae 5 to 7, the lower ones 

 distant, the upper close, denticulate. Glans conical-ovoid, brown, 

 glabrous, shining, apiculate, about 1.4 cm long and wide, the 

 younger ones more or less pubescent. 



Luzon, Rizal Province, Mount Lumutan, Bur. Sci. 29587 Ramos & Edano, 

 in the summit forests, altitude apparently about 1,000 meters. The 

 same species is also represented by Bur. Sci. 9J^i5 Robinson from a similar 

 altitude on Mount Binuang, Tayabas Province, Luzon. 



The alliance of this species is manifestly with Quercus philippinensis 

 A. DC, from which it is distinguished by its smaller, not caudate-acuminate 

 leaves and smaller fruits. Its fruits are much smaller than are those 

 of Quercus minahassae Koord., another allied species. 



LORANTHACEAE 



LOR AN THUS Linnaeus 

 LORANTHUS CONFERTIFLORUS sp. nov. § Heteranthus. 



Frutex parasiticus inflorescentlis exceptis glaber; ramis 4- 

 angulatis, ramulis acutissime tetragonis, internodiis elongatis; 

 foliis oppositis, coriaceis, olivaceis, nitidis, oblongis ad late 

 oblongo-lanceolatis, acuminatis, basi rotundatis, usque ad 13 cm 

 longis, nervis utrinque circiter 9, vix prominentibus ; inflorescen- 

 tlis axillaribus, solitariis, usque ad 3 cm longis ; floribus 6-meris, 

 cylindraceis, omnibus sessilibus, in triadibus subsessilibus vel 

 breviter pedunculatis dispositis, secundis, rhachibus dense 

 puberulis. 



A parasitic shrub, glabrous except the densely puberulent 

 rachis and bracts of the inflorescences. Branches stout, brown- 

 ish, distinctly 4-angled, the older ones becoming nearly terete, 

 the angles represented by raised lines, the younger branchlets 

 very sharply 4-angled, the internodes 3 to 9 cm long. Leaves 

 opposite, coriaceous, olivaceous and of the same color on both 

 surfaces, shining when dry, oblong to broadly oblong-lanceolate, 

 8 to 13 cm long, 3 to 5 cm wide, narrowed upward to the rather 

 prominently acuminate apex, base rounded; lateral nerves not 

 prominent, distant, irregular, about 9 on each side of the midrib, 

 the reticulations lax, obscure ; petioles about 1 cm long. Inflores- 

 cences axillary, solitary, about 3 cm long, the flowers all secund, 

 very densely arranged along one side of the densely puberulent 

 rachis, all sessile in triads, the triads racemosely arranged on 

 very short peduncles. Flowers red, 6-merous, about 23 mm 

 long, the buds very slightly enlarged at the base and again above 



