PROTEACEAE-LORANTHACEAE 



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commemoration of Doctor Robinson's work in Amboina and 

 of his critical work on the Philippine representatives of this 

 difficult family.* 



PROTEACEAE 



HELICIA Loureiro 



H ELICI A SERRATA (R. Br.) Blume in Ann. Sci. Nat. II 1 (1834) 215. 



Rhopala serrata R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 10 (1811) 193. 



Arbor vespertilionum Rumph. Herb. Amb. 7: 17 (p. p., excl. t. 10!). 

 Amboina, Paso, Robinson PL Rumph. Amb. 281, October 29, 1913, near 

 the seashore. 



Arbor vespertilionum Rumph. was first reduced to Helicia 

 serrata by Blume, in Ann. Sci. Nat. II 1 (1834) 215. He in- 

 cluded also t. 10 with the statement "figura male expressa." 

 The figure is manifestly no Helicia, refers to Arbor vesperti- 

 lionum II described on page 17 following the description that does 

 apply to Helicia, and is Schizomeria serrata Hochr. (see p. 244). 



LORANTHACEAE 

 LOR AN THUS Linnaeus 



LORANTHUS RUM PHI I sp. nov. § Heteranthus. 



Viscum amboinicum album Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 60, t. 33. 

 Amboina, Batoe gadjah and Soja road, Robinson PI. Rumph. Amb. 517 

 (type), August 4, 1913; Koesoekoesoe sereh, Robinson PI. Rumph. Amb. 

 516, August 23, 1913, parasitic, altitude 50 to 200 meters, locally known 

 as bunga manumpang and daun manumpang. 



Frutex parasiticus glaber, ramis ramulisque tenuibus, tere- 

 tibus; foliis oppositis, petiolatis, coriaceis, oblongis ad anguste 

 oblongo-obovatis, obtusis, basi attenuatis, usque ad 8 cm longis. 

 nervis utrinque 3 vel 4, obscuris vel subobsoletis, adscenden- 

 tibus ; inflorescentiis axillaribus, solitariis, usque ad 2 cm longis ; 

 floribus cylindraceis, teretibus, gracilis, circiter 2.4 cm longis. 

 5- vel 6-meris, omnibus sessilibus, in triadibus vel diadibus 

 breviter pedunculatis racemose dispositis. 



A parasitic, entirely glabrous shrub, the branches elongated, 

 up to at least 70 cm in length, slender, terete, reddish-brown 

 or dark in color when dry, the younger ones somewhat com- 

 pressed at the nodes, smooth, the internodes 2 to 4 cm in length. 

 Leaves opposite, coriaceous, olivaceous and rather dull when dry, 

 oblong to narrowly oblong-obovate, 5 to 8 cm long, 1.5 to 3 cm 

 wide, apex rounded to obtuse, base gradually narrowed, attenuate 



* Philippine Urticaceae. Philip. Journ. Sci. 5 (1910) Bot. 465-543; 6 

 (1911) Bot. 1-33, t. 1-3; Philippine Urticaceae II, ibid. 299-314. 



