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close to the margin, the reticulations slender, obscure; petioles 
3 to 5 mm long. Spikes short, mostly less than 2 cm long, glab- 
rous, each with few fruits. Cups shallow, cinereous-puberulent, 
about 1.3 cm in diameter, the lamellae 5 to 7, the lower ones 
distant, the upper close, denticulate. Gians conical-ovoid, brown, 
glabrous, shining, apiculate, about 1.4 cm long and wide, the 
younger ones more or less pubescent. 
Luzon, Rizal Province, Mount Lumutan, Bur. Sci. 29587 Ramos & Edano, 
in the summit forests, altitude apparently about 1,000 meters. The 
same species is also represented by Bur. Sci. 9UU5 Robinson from a similar 
altitude on Mount Binuang, Tayabas Province, Luzon. 
The alliance of this species is manifestly with Quercus philippinensis 
A. DC., from which it is distinguished by its smaller, not caudate-acuminate 
leaves and smaller fruits. Its fruits are much smaller than are those 
of Quercus minahassae Koord., another allied species. 
LORANTHACEAE 
LORANTHUS Linnaeus 
LORANTHUS CON FERTI FLOR US sp. nov. § Heteranthus. 
Frutex parasiticus inflorescentiis exceptis glaber; ramis 4- 
angulatis, ramulis acutissime tetragonis, internodiis elongatis; 
foliis oppositis, coriaceis, olivaceis, nitidis, oblongis ad late 
oblongo-lanceolatis, acuminatis, basi rotundatis, usque ad 13 cm 
longis, nervis utrinque circiter 9, vix prominentibus ; inflorescen- 
tiis axillaribus, solitariis, usque ad 3 cm longis ; floribus 6-meris, 
cylindraceis, omnibus sessilibus, in triadibus subsessilibus vel 
breviter pedunculatis dispositis, secundis, rhachibus dense 
puberulis. 
A parasitic shrub, glabrous except the densely puberulent 
rachis and bracts of the inflorescences. Branches stout, brown- 
ish, distinctly 4-angled, the older ones becoming nearly terete, 
the angles represented by raised lines, the younger branchlets 
very sharply 4-angled, the internodes 3 to 9 cm long. Leaves 
opposite, coriaceous, olivaceous and of the same color on both 
surfaces, shining when dry, oblong to broadly oblong-lanceolate, 
8 to 13 cm long, 3 to 5 cm wide, narrowed upward to the rather 
prominently acuminate apex, base rounded; lateral nerves not 
prominent, distant, irregular, about 9 on each side of the midrib, 
the reticulations lax, obscure ; petioles about 1 cm long. Inflores- 
cences axillary, solitary, about 3 cm long, the flowers all secund, 
very densely arranged along one side of the densely puberulent 
rachis, all sessile in triads, the triads racemosely arranged on 
very short peduncles. Flowers red, 6-merous, about 23 mm 
long, the buds very slightly enlarged at the base and again above 
