PHILIPPINE LORANTHACB^. 147 



lary one to three in each axil, about 4 mm long, each bearing at its apex 

 two sessile flowers. Calyx 6 mm long, cylindric, the limb produced about 

 1.5 mm, somewhat spreading, obscurely toothed, each subtended by one 

 broadly ovate, obtuse, 2.5 to 3 mm long bract, and a second similar 

 one as long, but wider, which is retuse at the apex, apparently formed 

 of two connate bracteoles. Corolla 1.5 cm long, inflated below, angled, 

 in anthesis about 6 mm in diameter, narrowed to 3.5 mm at the apex, 

 the tube 3 to 4 mm long, the lobes 6, 4 mm wide below, narrowed to 2 

 mm above, the reflexed portion above the insertion of the stamens 5 to 

 6 mm long. Filament about 2 mm long ; anthers continuous, 3 mm long. 



Mindanao, Province of Surigao, Catel, Merrill S.'f.'th October 5, 1906, parasitic 

 on various shrubs along the river slightly above the influence of tide-water. 



A species well characterized by its short, 2-flowered peduncles, the flowers 

 sessile, 6-merous, each subtended by two bracteoles. 



§ Lepiostegeres. 



42. Loranthus congestiflorus sp. nov. 



Glaber; foliis oppositis, petiolatis, crasse coriaceis, oblongo-ovatis vel 

 ovato-ellipticis, usque ad 9 cm longis, apice acutis, leviter acuminatis, 

 vel obtusis, basi acutis, nervis utrinque circiter 4, obscuris, vel obsoletis; 

 capitulis axillaribus terminalibusque, sessilibus, circiter 30-floris, bracteis 

 6 ad 10 arete imbricatis involucratis, interioribus circiter 2.5 cm longis, 

 exterioribus minoribus, deciduis; floribus brevissime pedicellatis, 6-meris, 

 3 cm longis. 



Glabrous throughout. Branches stout, terete, gray, the younger ones 

 smooth, reddish-brown. Leaves opposite, oblong-ovate to ovate-elliptic, 

 5 to 9 cm long, 2 to 3.5 cm wide, thickly coriaceous, brown or olivaceous 

 when dry, dull or very slightly shining, the apex acute, slightly acuminate 

 or obtuse, the base acute ; nerves about 4 on each side of the midrib, very 

 obscure or entirely wanting; petioles 0.5 to 1.5 cm long, stout. In- 

 florescence of sessile, axillary and terminal, many-flowered, globose heads, 

 before anthesis entirely inclosed by 6 to 10, coriaceous, imbricated 

 bracts, the inner ones at the time of anthesis elliptic-ovate, 2.5 cm long, 

 the outer ones suborbicular, smaller, all coriaceous, brown, shining, decid- 

 uous; in immature specimens the bracts are much smaller, and the heads 

 are globose, but with the increase in size of the heads, the bracts also 

 increase in size. Flowers about 30 in each head, very shortly pedicelled, 

 racemosely arranged on a very stout, short rachis. Calyx about 4 mm 

 long, somewhat angled. Corolla 2.6 to 2.8 cm long, greenish-white to 

 greenish-yellow, the tube about 3 mm long, the lobes 2 mm wide below, 

 gradually narrowed upwards, the reflexed portion above the insertion of 

 the anthers 8 mm long. Filaments 2 mm long; anthers continuous, 5 

 mm long. 



Luzon, Province of Benguet, Mount Tonglon, For. Bur. 5037 Curran, August, 

 1906 (type), For. Bur. 10833 Curran, December, 1908, For. Bur. 11093 Whitford, 



