PHILIPPINE LORANTHACE^. 153 



fioribus 4-mei'is, verticillatis, in spicis simplicibus axillaribus terininali- 

 busque solitariis, usque ad 3 cm longis dispositis. 



Branches terete, brown, glabrous. Leaves opposite, broadly ovate or 

 broadly elliptic, subcoriaceous, broad and rounded at both base and apex, 

 3 to 5 cm long, 2 to 3.5 cm wide, the younger leaves like the branchlets 

 and inflorescence densely yellow-glandular-puberulent, the adult leaves 

 glabrous and often shining on the upper surface, beneath densely pale- 

 glandular-puberulent and somewhat shining; nerves 3 from the bas^e, 

 extending nearly to the apex, slender, not prominent, the reticulations 

 very lax; petioles 3 to 5 mm long, ultimately glabrous. Spikes axillary 

 and terminal, solitary, 3 cm long or less, the flowers 4-merous, sessile, 

 whorled, each flower subtended by a small, ovate, acute, 1 mm long 

 bract. Perianth-lol)es narrowly ovate, acute, about 1 mm long. 



Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Port Banga, For. Bur. 9132 Whit ford d- 

 Hutchinson, January, 1908. 



A species well characterized by its broadly ovate or broadly elliptic leaves 

 which are rounded at botli ends, and its simple spikes. 



3. Notothixos philippinensis Elmer Leafl. Philip. Bot. 2 (1908) 471 {phil- 

 ippinense) . 



Eamulis foliisque junioribus inflorescentiisque densissime aureo- 

 glanduloso-puberulis ; foliis oppositis, petiolatis, subcoriaceis, supra gla- 

 bris, subtus dense aureo- vel griseo-glanduloso-puberulis, ovatis, ovato- 

 lanceolatis vel subellipticis, basi acutis vel obtusis, supra angustatis, apice 

 acutis vel acuminatis, 4 ad 6 cm longis, circiter 2.5 cm latis, trinerviis; 

 inflorescentiis axillaribus terminalibusque, cymosis, 2 ad 5 cm longis; 

 floribus 4-meris, ad apices ramulorum subcapitato-congestis. 



Xegros, Cuernos Mountains, near Dumaguete, Elmer 10114, May, 1908, para- 

 sitic on Canarium at an altitude of about 300 m. Readily distinguished among 

 the Philippine species by its cymose inflorescence. 



The genus has three species in Australia, one in Ceylon, one in Penang, and 

 the above three in the Pliilippines. 



6. GIN ALLOA Korth. 



1. Ginalloa cumingiana (Presl) F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 185; Vid. Phan. 

 Cuming. Philip. (1885) 141, Pvev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 2.32. 



Viscum cumingianuni Presl Epim. (1851) 255; Walp. Ann. 2: 729. 

 Philippines, without locality, Cinning 19GS, type number. 

 Endemic. 



Var. angustifolia var. nov. 



Differt a typo foliis multo minoribus angustioribnsque, 2 ad 4 cm 

 longis, 2 ad 4 mm latis. 



Luzon, Province of Benguet, Mount Pulog, For. Bur. lG2'i2 Curran, Merritt, 

 li Zschokkc. Negrcs, Canlaon Volcano, Bur. Sci. 1130 Banks, June, 1906. 



