PHILIPPINE LORANTHACE^. 133 



4. Leaves petioled; flowers 6-merous 38. L. banahaensis 



2. Each flower subtended by a bract, and by an additional pair of similar, 

 usually smaller bracteoles, these bracteoles free or united into a single 

 retuse one. § IVIacrosolen. 

 3. Flowers in simple racemes, each flower subtended by a small bract and 



two smaller, free bracteoles 39. L. ampullaceus 



3. Flowers in triads, each peduncle bearing two triads, the flowers 5-merous, 



all sessile 40. L. macgregorii 



3. Flowers in pairs, each peduncle bearing two sessile, 6-merous flowers. 



41. M. geminatus 

 2. Flowers in axillary, sessile fascicles, which are surrounded by large, ovate 

 to elliptic, imbricated, deciduous bracts, entirely inclosing the young 

 inflorescence. § Lepiostegebes. 



3. Flowers about 30 in each head 42. L. congestifloriis 



3. Flowers 4 in each head. 43. L. tvilliamsii 



§ PHOENICANTHEMUil. 



1. Loranthus pentapetalus Eoxb. Fl. Ind. 1 (1820) 190; DC. Prodr. 4 

 (1830) 295; Blume Fl. Jav. Loranth. (1828) 39, t. I4, 23 A; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. 



Ind. 5 (1886) 206; Forbes & Hemsl. in .Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 26 (1894) 406; 

 Rolfe in Journ. Bot. 23 (1885) 215; Vid. Plian. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 140, 

 Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 231; Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 50. 



Lanthorus spicifer Presl Epim. Bot. (1851) 257; Walp. Ann. 2: 727; Van 

 Tiegh. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France 41 (1894) 487. 



Phoenicanthemum pentapetalum Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 1^ (1856) 823. 



Dendrophthoe pentapetala G. Don Gen. Hist. 3 (1832) 419. 



Loranthus spicifer F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 183; Vid. Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. 

 (1886) 231. 



Lanthorus hlumeanus Van Tiegh. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France 41 (1894) 488. 



Lanthorus pentasepalus Van Tiegh. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France 41 (1894) 488. 



Lanthorus cumingii Van Tiegh. 1. c. 



Loranthus cumingii Engl. Nat. Pflanzenfam. Nachtr. 1 (1897) 128. 



Loranthus hlumeanus Engl. 1. c. 



Philippines, without locality, Cuming 19Ji9, type number of the genus Lan- 

 thorus Presl; Cuming 1915, type number of Lanthorus cumingii Van Tiegh. 

 Babuyanes Islands, Camiguin, Bur. Hci. 'illl Fenix. Luzon, Province of Benguet, 

 Ambuklao to Daklan, Merrill U02; Baguio, For. Bur. 4901 Curran, Elmer 8493; 

 Kias Hill, Williams 932: Province of Pampanga, Mount Abu, Bur. Sci. 1993 

 Foxworthy : Province of Bataan, Lamao River, Whitford 1219, For. Bur. 2243 

 Meyer, Elmer 6891, For. Bur. 80 Barnes: Province of Rizal, Bosoboso, Merrill 

 1832, For. Bur. 2134 Ahern's collector, Bur. Sci. 1499 Ramos: Province of Tayabas, 

 Elmer 9114 ■' Province of Camarines, For. Bur. 12291 Curran. 



Nepal to Burma and southern China, the INIalay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, 

 and Borneo. 



A widely distributed species, with rather constant characters, considering its 

 range. I am unable to distinguish any constant characters by which the four 

 species recognized by Van Tieghem, Lanthorus pentapetalus, L. spicifer, L. cumingii, 

 and L. blumeanus, can be separated from Loranthus pentapetalus Roxb. 



2. Loranthus sessiliflorus Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 188. 

 Luzon, Province of Benguet, Baguio, Elmer 6057: Province of Bataan, Lamao 



River, Whitford 1111 : Province of Tayabas, Lucban, Elmer 1845. Mindoro, Baco, 

 Merrill 1242, 4O4I, McGregor 125; Aglubang River, For. Bur. 11499 Merritt. 

 Endemic. 



