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Anthers linear-oblong, 3 mm long, subsessile. Bracteoles sub- 

 tending the calyces ovate, acuminate, about 2 mm long. 



Luzon, Nueva Ecija Province, Mount Umingan, Bur. Scl 26^09 Ramos 



6 Edano, August 15, 1916, on trees in forests, altitude about 300 meters, 

 the flowers red and yellow. 



This very characteristic species is readily distinguishable by its very 

 thickly coriaceous leaves, the veins and reticulations obsolete, or the former 

 faintly visible on the upper surface. It does not appear to be closely 

 allied to any previously described Philippine form. 



LORANTHUS EDANOII sp. nov. § Heteranthus. 



Frutex parasiticus, glaber, ramis ramulisque teretibus, inter- 

 nodiis elongatis; foliis oppositis, sessilibus, crasse coriaceis, 

 oblongo-ovatis, usque ad 16 cm longis, apice obtusis vel obtuse 

 acuminatis, basi obtusis, in siccitate minute verruculosis, brun- 

 neo-olivaceis, nervis primariis utrinque circiter 5, subobscuris, 

 curvato-adscendentibus, secondares obsoletis ; inflorescentiis axil- 

 laribus et secus internodiis seriatim dispositis, breviter peduncu- 

 latis, 6-floris; floribus omnibus sessilibus, 5-meris, cylindraceis, 

 circiter 16 mm longis, petalis liberis. 



A parasitic glabrous shrub, or the inflorescences very obscurely 

 ferruginous-puberulent. Branches and branchlets terete, dark- 

 brown, smooth, or the older branches lenticellate, the internodes 



7 to 11 cm in length. Leaves opposite, sessile, thickly coriaceous, 

 dull, brownish-olivaceous, of the same color on both surfaces 

 and minutely verruculose when dry, often slightly inequilateral, 

 oblong-ovate, 11 to 16 cm long, 5.5 to 6 cm long, apex obtuse 

 to obscurely blunt-acuminate, base obtuse; lateral nerves about 



5 on each side of the midrib, curved-ascending, not prominent, 

 evanescent or obscurely anastomosing, the secondary nerves and 

 reticulations obsolete. Inflorescences axillary and seriately ar- 

 ranged along one side of the internodes, all peduncled and 6- 

 flowered. Peduncles about 5 mm long. Flowers red, 5-merous, 

 all sessile, and each subtended by a reniform-ovate, rounded 

 bracteole, about 2 mm long and 2.5 mm wide. Calyx cylindric, 

 slightly curved, 3.5 mm long, the limb truncate, produced about 

 1 mm. Petals 5, linear, free, about 13 mm long, 1 mm wide, 

 glabrous, the portion above the insertion of the stamen thick- 

 ened, narrowly oblong-obovate, obtuse, 3 mm long. Anthers 

 oblong, continuous with the filament, 1.2 mm long, the filament 

 as long as the anther. 



Luzon, Nueva Ecija Province, Mount Umingan, Bur. Sci. 262^1 Ramos 



6 Edano, August 8, 1916, on trees at low altitudes. 



A very characteristic species, in vegetative characters approaching 

 Loranthus cuemosensis Elm. and L. seriatus Merr. It is readily dis- 



