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the very slight constriction, cylindric, the bracts 3, forming a 

 small involucre at the apex of the short peduncle, one bract sub- 

 tending each flower, ovate, obtuse to subacute, about 3 mm long, 

 densely puberulent. Calyx subcylindric, oblong, about 3 mm 

 long, the limb slightly pubescent, somewhat spreading, irre- 

 gularly lobed. Petals free to the base, or the basal margins 

 slightly cohering, the petals linear, about 20 mm long, the re- 

 flexed part above the insertion of the anthers narrowly oblong, 

 3 to 3.5 mm long, slightly puberulent on the back. Anthers 

 linear, continuous, 2 to 2.5 mm long. 



Leyte, Tigbao, near Tacloban, Wenzel 12U9, May 25, 1915, a parasitic 

 shrub about 2 m high. 



A very characteristic species readily recognized by its elongated inter- 

 nodes, prominently 4-angled stems and branchlets, and its very dense, 

 solitary inflorescences, the flowers all secund, all sessile in triads, the triads 

 with very short peduncles racemosely arranged along the densely puberulent 

 rachis. 



LORANTHUS CRASSILI M BUS sp. nov. § Heteranthus. 



Frutex parasiticus, glaber, ramis ramulisque teretibus, eras- 

 sis, internodiis brevibus ; foliis oppositis, petiolatis, crasse coria- 

 ceis, oblongis, usque ad 13 cm longis, obtusis, basi acutis, nervis 

 reticulisque obsoletis; inflorescentiis axillaribus, solitariis, circi- 

 ter 3 cm longis ; floribus circiter 2.8 mm longis, 6-meris, solitariis 

 vel in diadibus vel triadibus racemose dispositis; petalis liberis. 



A parasitic glabrous shrub, the branches and branchlets terete, 

 stout, brown when dry, the latter smooth, about 5 mm in dia- 

 meter, the internodes 1.5 to 3 cm long. Leaves opposite, very 

 thickly coriaceous, oblong, 12 to 13 cm long, 4.5 to 5 cm wide, 

 the upper surface greenish-olivaceous when dry, the lower brown, 

 smooth, slightly shining, apex obtuse, base acute or somewhat 

 decurrent-acuminate, midrib very prominent, the lateral nerves 

 and reticulations obsolete, or the former faintly visible on the 

 upper surface; petioles stout, 1.5 to 2 cm long. Inflorescences 

 axillary, solitary, the rachis about 3 cm long, the flowers race- 

 mosely arranged, more or less secund, solitary, in pairs, or in 

 triads, their peduncles about 4 mm long, the flowers subtended 

 by a whorl of ovate, acuminate, coriaceous, 4 mm long bracts. 

 Calyx cylindric, about 4 mm long, slightly contracted below the 

 thin limb, the limb about 1 mm long, irregularly lacerate-toothed. 

 Petals 6, linear, free, the unopened flowers somewhat angular, not 

 inflated, the petals about 24 mm long and 2 mm wide below, nar- 

 rowed upward, the reflexed part above the insertion of the stamen 

 narrowly oblong, acute or somewhat acuminate, 6 mm long. 



