148 MERRILL. 



For. Bur. U183 Merritt; Mount Pulog, For. Bur. 180-ff5, 18084 Curran, Merritt, 

 <€ Zschokke; Mount Ugo, Bur. Sci. 5780 Ramos; without locality, Loher 4Jf59. 

 MiNDORO, Mount Halcon, For. Bur. Ji^SJf Merritt. Mindanao, Mount Malindang, 

 For. Bur. JfUGO Mearns tC- Hutchinson. 



43. Loranthus williamsii sp. nov. 



Glaber; foliis oppositis, petiolatis, oblongis vel oblongo-lanceolatis, 

 obtusis, basi acutis, usque ad 7 cm longis, nervis latcralibus tenuibus, 

 obscuris, utrinque 5 vel 6; capitulis axillaribus, solitariis, 4-floris, in 

 alabastro globosis, bracteis circiter 6 arete imbricatis involucratis, in- 

 terioribus circiter 1.4 cm longis, exterioribus minoribus, deciduis; flori- 

 biis sessilibus, 5- vel 6-meris, 3 cm longis. 



Glabrous throughout. Branches terete, grayish-brown, rather densely 

 lenticellate. Leaves opposite, coriaceous, dull-green when dry, not or but 

 slightly shining, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, the apex obtuse, base acute, 

 5 to 7 cm long, 1.5 to 2.5 cm wide; nerves 5 or 6 on each side of the 

 midrib, very slender, obscure; petioles about 3 mm long. Heads axillar}^ 

 when young globose, solitary, sessile, surrounded by about 6 strongly im- 

 bricated, brown, shining, coriaceous, elliptic to elliptic-ovate, rounded 

 deciduous bracts, the inner ones about 1.4 cm long, the outer gradually 

 smaller, the outermost ones about 8 mm long. Flowers 5- and 6-merous, 

 four in each head, sessile, the peduncle very stout, about 2 mm long, 3 mm 

 in diameter, marked by the bract-scars. Calyx 2.5 mm long, about 3 mm 

 in diameter, the limb produced, truncate. Corolla 27 mm long, tlie tube 

 3 to 4 mm in length, the lobes 5 or 6, 2 mm wide below, narrowed some- 

 what above, the reflexed portion above the insertion of the stamens 8 to 

 9 mm long. Anther sessile, linear, 7 mm long. 



Luzon, Province of Benguet, Baguio, Williams 973, September 21, 1904. Cum- 

 ing 191' Jf is probably referable here but my specimen is too fragmentary for certain 

 identification. 



A species well characterized by its 4-flowered, sessile, axillary, solitary heads, 

 the flowers sessile, 5- and 6-merous. 



DOUBTFUL AND EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



LoRANTUUS BLANCOANUS F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 355. 



Brahejum f caliculatum Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. 2 (1845) 39; ed. 3, 1 : 72. 



F.-Villar's species was based on Blanco's Brahejum ? caliculatum, but if the 

 latter's description is correct in all particulars, the species can not be referred 

 to the Loranthaceac. I have therefore excluded it, although I have not been 

 able to make out the identity of Brahejum f caliculatum, or to which family it 

 really belongs. 



Loranthus heterantiius Wall.; Vid. Sinopsis Atlas (1883) t. 81, f. A. 



Undoubtedly an erroneous identification, as the species has not been found 

 in the Pliilippincs; I can not determine to which species Vidal's figure really 

 belongs. 



DENDRoiMrnioi: incaknata Blunic; Vid. Cat. PI. Prov. Manila (1880) 40 

 {=zLoranthus incarnatus Jack). 



