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the very slight constriction, cylindric, the bracts 3, forming a 
small involucre at the apex of the short peduncle, one bract sub- 
tending each flower, ovate, obtuse to subacute, about 3 mm long, 
densely puberulent. Calyx subcylindric, oblong, about 3 mm 
long, the limb slightly pubescent, somewhat spreading, irre- 
gularly lobed. Petals free to the base, or the basal margins 
slightly cohering, the petals linear, about 20 mm long, the re- 
flexed part above the insertion of the anthers narrowly oblong, 
3 to 3.5 mm long, slightly puberulent on the back. Anthers 
linear, continuous, 2 to 2.5 mm long. 
Leyte, Tigbao, near Tacloban, Wenzel 1249, May 25, 1915, a parasitic 
shrub about 2 m high. 
A very characteristic species readily recognized by its elongated inter- 
nodes, prominently 4-angled stems and branchlets, and its very dense, 
solitary inflorescences, the flowers all secund, all sessile in triads, the triads 
with very short peduncles racemosely arranged along the densely puberulent 
rachis, 
LORANTHUS CRASSI LIMBUS sp. nov. § Heteranthus. 
Frutex parasiticus, glaber, ramis ramulisque teretibus, cras- 
sis, internodiis brevibus; foliis oppositis, petiolatis, crasse coria- 
ceis, oblongis, usque ad 13 cm longis, obtusis, basi acutis, nervis 
reticulisque obsoletis; inflorescentiis axillaribus, solitariis, circi- 
ter 3 cm longis ; floribus circiter 2.8 mm longis, 6-meris, solitariis 
vel in diadibus vel triadibus racemose dispositis; petalis liberis. 
A parasitic glabrous shrub, the branches and branchlets terete, 
stout, brown when dry, the latter smooth, about 5 mm in dia- 
meter, the internodes 1.5 to 3 cm long. Leaves opposite, very 
thickly coriaceous, oblong, 12 to 13 cm long, 4.5 to 5 cm wide, 
the upper surface greenish-olivaceous when dry, the lower brown, 
smooth, slightly shining, apex obtuse, base acute or somewhat 
decurrent-acuminate, midrib very prominent, the lateral nerves 
and reticulations obsolete, or the former faintly visible on the 
upper surface; petioles stout, 1.5 to 2 cm long. Inflorescences 
axillary, solitary, the rachis about 3 cm long, the flowers race- 
mosely arranged, more or less secund, solitary, in pairs, or in 
triads, their peduncles about 4 mm long, the flowers subtended 
by a whorl of ovate, acuminate, coriaceous, 4 mm long bracts. 
Calyx cylindric, about 4 mm long, slightly contracted below the 
thin limb, the limb about 1 mm long, irregularly lacerate-toothed. 
Petals 6, linear, free, the unopened flowers somewhat angular, not 
inflated, the petals about 24 mm long and 2 mm wide below, nar- 
rowed upward, the reflexed part above the insertion of the stamen 
narrowly oblong, acqte or somewhat acuminate, 6 mm long. 
