142 MERRILL. 



3 or 4 on each side of the midrib, indistinct, curved-ascending; petioles 



1 to 1.5 cm long. Inflorescence axillary, solitary or fascicled, rachis 2 

 cm long or less, the flowers all sessile, greenish-yellow, red at the base, 

 secund, arranged in triads which are very shortly peduncled, the triads 

 racemosely arranged, their peduncles 2 to 2.5 mm long. Calyx cylindric, 



2 to 2.5 mm long, each subtended by an ovate, 1.4 mm long bract. 

 Corolla very slender, 6-cleft, about 2.5 cm long, 1.5 mm in diameter, the 

 tube 4 to 5 mm long. Filaments 3 mm long; anthers continuous, 3.5 mm 

 long. 



BoHOL, Tagbilaran, parasitic on trees near the seashore, Bur. »S'cf. 1277 McGregor, 

 July 12, 190G. 



Allied to the preceding and to the next species, but characterized by its very 

 slender and elongated flowers and its lanceolate, petioled leaves. 



28. Loranthus secundiflorus Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (190G) Siippl. 187. 

 Mindanao, Province of Surigao, Surigao, Bolster 237, February, 1906, and 



without number, May-June, 190G: Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens 

 s. n., March. 1906: District of Davao, ^ViU^ams 2695. 

 Endemic. 



29. Loranthus mindanaensis Merr. 1. c. 186. 



^Mindanao, District of Davao, Copeland 3Jfl, DeVore d Hoover 285, Williams 

 2580. Specimens from Guimaras, For. Bur. 101 (lammill, and from Negros, 

 Whitford 1^/89, are probably referable here, diflfering from the type in some minor 

 characters. 



Endemic. 



The above four species form a group of closely allied forms which are often 

 diflicult to distinguish. Additional material may lead to the reduction of some 

 of them. 



30. Loranthus revolutus sp. nov. 



Glaber; foliis oppositis, ellipticis vel oblongo-ellipticis, coriaceis, in 

 sicco nitidis, usque ad 7 cm longis, petiolatis, apice late rotundatis vel 

 obtusis, basi dccurrenti-acuminatis, marginc revolutis, nervis utrinque 



4 ad 6, vix distinctis; inflorescentiis in ramis vetustioribus, solitariis, 

 floribus 5-meris, in triadibus racemose dispositis, floribus latoralibus 

 brevissime pedicellatis, intermedio sessile. 



r;ial)rous tlirougliout. Branches stout, gray, terete, the branchlets 

 brownish, obscurely angled. Leaves opposite, elliptic to oblong-elliptic,. 

 thickly coriaceous, brown and somewlutt shining when dry, 5 to 7 cm 

 long, 2 to 3.5 cm wide, the Jiuirgins rather strongly recurved, the apex 

 broad, rounded or obtuse, the base docun'ent-acuminatc ; nerves 4 to G on 

 each side of the midrib, Jiot distinct; petioles nearly 1 cm long. In- 

 florescence from the lai'ger l)ranches below the leaves, solitary, the rachis 

 2 to 2.5 cni long, flower-bearing only above the middle, the flowers 

 arranged in triads. Uie middle one of each iriad sessile, (he two lateral 

 ones very shortly (1 mm) pedicelled, the triads in turn racemosely dis- 

 posed, the peduncles 2 to 3 mm long. Calyx cylindric, about 4 mm long, 

 obscurely toothed. Corolla yellow, red at the tij). 2.5 cm long, 5-cleft 



