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about 8 on each side of the midrib, obscure; petioles stout, 2 to 3 cm 

 long. Cymes solitary or few at the nodes, rarely additional ones scattered 

 along the branches, the rachis less than 1 cm long, bearing at its apex 

 three short branches, each branch in turn bearing three pedicelled yellow 

 flowers, so that the cyme is made up of three triads. Pedicels 2 to 3 mm 

 long, slender. Cah'x 4.5 mm long, narrowed below, the limb produced, 

 truncate, each subtended by a single, ovate, 1.2 mm long bract. Petals 5, 

 free, 3 to 3.5 cm long, about 1.7 mm wide. Filaments 2 mm long; 

 anthers continuous, 5 mm long. 



Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens 777, November, 1906, 

 on trees overhanging the lake. 



A species closely allied to Loranthns bicoloratus Elmer, but with much larger, 

 differently shaped leaves, longer flowers and anthers. 



13. Loranthus bicoloratus Elmer Leafl. Philip. Bot. 2 (1908) 470. 



Glaber; foliis coriaceis, in sicco brunneis, opacis, oblongis vel late 

 oblongo-lanceolatis, oppositis, petiolatis, 7 ad 14 cm longis, circiter 5 cm 

 latis, basi acutis vel obtusis, apice aeutis, obtusis, vel leviter acuminatis, 

 nervis utrinque 3 ad 5, obscuris; cymis ad nodes solitariis vel 2 vel 3 

 fasciculatis ; floribus omnibus pedicellatis, in triadi])us 3 vel 4 dispositis ; 

 petalis 5, liberis, circiter 3 cm longis. 



Negros, Cuernos Mountains, near Dumaguete, Elmer 9950, type number, 

 collected on Leucosyke, in densely thicketed ravines at an altitude of about 760 m. 



From the original description of the species, one would infer that it belongs 

 in the section Dendrophthoe, but examination of type nuxterial shows that the 

 petals are entirely free. 



Endemic. 



14. Loranthus hexanthus sp. nov. 



Glaber; foliis oppositis, petiolatis, opacis, oblongo-ovatis, usque ad 10 

 cm longis, basi acutis vel acuminatis, apice obtusis, acutis vel acuminatis, 

 rectis vel leviter f alcatis, nervis utrinque circiter 3, obscuris, subobsoletis ; 

 pedunculis axillaribus, brevibus, 6-floris, floribus omnibus sessilibus, in 

 triadibus 2 dispositis; petalis liberis, circiter 1.7 mm longis. 



Glabrous throughout. Branches grayish-brown or dark-colored, terete. 

 Leaves opposite, oblong-ovate, straight or slightly falcate, 8 to 10 cm 

 long, 3 to 5 cm wide, thickly-coriaceous, brittle and dull when dr}', 

 brown, base acute or acuminate, apex obtuse, acute, or acuminate; nerves 

 about 3 on each side of the midrib, very obscure, the reticulations often 

 obsolete; petioles 1 cm long or less. Inflorescence axillary and at the 

 nodes, the peduncles solitary or few at each node, 8 mm long or less, 

 each peduncle bearing at its a]::!^x six sessile flowers, arranged in two 

 triads, each flower subtended by a broadly ovate, obtuse l)ract ahout 

 2.5 mm long. Calyx 4 mm long, the limb produced, truncate or 

 irregularly and obscurely toothed. Petals 5, free, about 1.7 cm long, 

 the buds slightly angled, and a little enlarged at tlie apex, the portion 



