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A parasitic glabrous shrub, the branches terete, the branchlets 

 somewhat compressed, dull-brownish, smooth, the internodes 5 

 to 10 cm long. Leaves opposite, coriaceous, dull-brownish when 

 dry, ovate to broadly ovate, 11 to 16 cm long, 8 to 13 cm wide, 

 obtuse, base broadly acute to subtruncate; lateral nerves 8 to 

 10 on each side of the midrib, distinct, the secondary ones and 

 the reticulations obsolete or nearly so; petioles stout, about 1 

 cm long. Heads axillary, 15- to 20-flowered, the bracts coria- 

 ceous, the outer ones reniform, 1 cm long and 2 cm wide, the 

 inner ones obovate, the bracteoles linear-oblong to oblong, some- 

 what keeled, about 11 mm long, obtuse. Calyx 4 mm long, 

 cylindric, the limb inflated, membranaceous, produced about 1.5 

 mm. Corolla-tube inflated below, the lobes six, united for the 

 lower 5 mm, the free portions 2 mm wide below, narrowed 

 upward, the reflexed part above the insertion of the stamens 

 oblong, obtuse, 5 mm long. Anthers linear, acuminate, sessile, 

 4 mm long. 



Samar, Catbalogan, Bur. Sci. 17i48 Ramos, April 22, 1914, on trees in 

 damp forests at low altitudes, the inflorescence reddish, but the corollas 

 green and yellow. 



A species readily distinguished among all the Philippine representatives 

 of the section Lepeostegeres by its very broad leaves. 



LORANTHUS OVATIBRACTEUS sp. nov. § Macrosolen. 



Frutex parasiticus, glaber, ramulis ramulisque teretibus ; f oliis 

 oppositis, breviter petiolatis, oblongo-ovatis, coriaceis, usque ad 

 15 cm longis, obtusis, basi acutis vel leviter decurrento-acumina- 

 tis, in siccitate supra brunneo-olivaceis, subtus pallidis, nervis 

 utrinque 6 ad 8, obscuris; capitulis axillaribus 12- ad 15-floris, 

 sessilibus, bracteis ovatis, leviter carinatis, circiter 13 mm longis, 

 bracteolis ellipticis ad oblongo-ellipticis, carinatis, 7 ad 11 mm 

 longis ; floribus in triadibus sessilibus dispositis, 6-meris, circiter 

 21 mm longis. 



A parasitic, glabrous shrub, the branches and branchlets terete, 

 the former pale- the latter dark-brown, smooth, the internodes 

 2 to 5 cm long. Leaves opposite, oblong-ovate, coriaceous, shin- 

 ing, 12 to 15 cm long, 5.5 to 7.5 cm wide, narrowed upward 

 to the obtuse apex and below to the acute or somewhat decurrent- 

 acuminate base, the upper surface dark brownish-olivaceous, 

 the lower surface pale-brownish; lateral nerves 6 to 8 on each 

 side of the midrib, slender, very obscure, often evanescent, the 

 secondary nerves and reticulations obsolete; petioles 5 to 8 mm 

 long. Heads axillary, sessile, 12- to 15-flowered, the outer four 

 bracts ovate, coriaceous, acute, more or less keeled, about 13 

 mm long, the bracteoles subtending the triads elliptic to oblong- 



