PHILIPPINE LORANTHACE^. 141 



Glabrous except the inflorescence. Branches terete, smooth, grayish- 

 or reddish-brown. Leaves alternate, oblong-elliptic to narrowly ovate- 

 elliptic, 4 to 10 cm long, 1.5 to 4.5 cm wide, the base acute or acuminate, 

 the apex blunt or very obscurely blunt-acuminate, brown and dull when 

 dry, thickly coriaceous, brittle; nerves three on each side of the midrib, 

 ascending, the reticulations obsolete or nearly so; petioles about 1 cm 

 long. Eacemes axillary, solitary, simple, the rachis 3 cm long or less, 

 the pedicels about 3 mm long. Calyx densely grayish-puberulent, 2.5 

 to 3 mm long, the limb produced, obscurely 5-toothed, each subtended 

 by a broadly ovate, 2 mm long bracteole. Corolla red, somewhat curved, 



3 to 3.3 cm long, in bud slightly inflated above the middle, the apex 

 narrowed; lobes 5, linear, about 8 mm long and 1 mm wide. Filaments 



4 mm long; anthers continuous, 2.5 mm long. 



Luzon, Province of Rizal, San Francisco del Monte, Loher If^Sl (type) : Prov- 

 ince of Ilocos Norte, Bur. Sci. 2288 Meams: without locality, Cuming 1955, 1965, 

 and a sheet in the herbarium of this Bureau without number. 



A species manifestly allied to Loranfhus curvatus Blume, but with much smaller 

 flowers. 



25. Loranthus pentandrus Linn. Mant. (1767) 63; DC. Prodr. 4 (1830) 

 305; Blume Fl. Jav. Loranth. (1828) 33, t. 10; Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 5 (1886) 

 216; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 184. 



Palawan, Merrill 602, Bur. Sci. 283 Bermejos. 



India to the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, and Borneo. 



26. Loranthus subalternifolius Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 

 188, exel. syn. Loranthus cumingii Engl. 



Amylotheca cumingii Van Tiegh. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France 41 (1894) 264. 



Elytranthe cumingii Engl. Nat. Pfianzenfam. Nachtr. 1 (1897) 126. 



Philippines, without locality, Cuming 1969 (type number of Amylotheca 

 ■cumingii Van Tiegh.). Luzon, Province of Benguet, Elmer 6191. 



The original specific name is invalidated in Loranthus by Loranthus cumingii 

 Engl, and L. cumingianus Engl. 



Endemic. 



27. Loranthus boholensis sp. nov. 



Glaber; foliis oppositis, coriaceis, petiolatis, lanceolatis vel late lanceo- 

 latis, usque ad 15 cm longis, basi rotundatis vel abrupte decurrenti- 

 acuminatis, apice gradatim acuminatis, nervis utrinque 3 vel 4, obscuris, 

 ■curvato-ascendentibus ; inflorescentiis axillaribus, solitariis vel fascicu- 

 latis, floribus omnibus sessilibus, tenuibus, 6-meris, falcatis, in triadibus 

 breviter pedunculatis, racemose dispositis. 



Glabrous throughout. Branches terete, grayish, lenticellate. Leaves 

 opposite, lanceolate or broadly lanceolate, coriaceous, dark-colored or 

 brown, and somewhat shining on the upper surface when dry, 11 to 15 

 cm long, 3 to 5 cm wide, broadest in the lower part, the base rounded 

 x)r abruptly and slightly decurrent-acuminate, gradually narrowed up- 

 wards to the acuminate apex, which is straight or slightly falcate; nerves 



