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tinguished by its peduncled, 6-flowered inflorescences, which are in the 
axils and also seriately arranged along one side of the internodes. 
LORANTHUS SAMARENSIS sp. nov. § Heteranthus. 
Frutex parasiticus, glaber, ramulis teretibus; foliis oppositis, 
sessilibus, ovatis, usque ad 18 cm longis, crasse coriaceis, in 
siccitate brunneis, utrinque minute verruculosis, apice obtuse 
acuminatis, basi rotundatis vel leviter cordatis, nervis utrinque 
5 vel 6, arcuato-anastomosantibus, subdistinctis ; inflorescentiis 
secundum internodiis plus minusve confertis, fasciculis 4-floris, 
sessilibus vel brevissime pedunculatis ; floribus teretibus, circiter 
2.4 cm longis, 5-meris, petalis liberis. 
A parasitic glabrous shrub, the branches and branchlets terete, 
reddish-brown, smooth. Leaves opposite, sessile, thickly coria- 
ceous, brown when dry, of the same color on both surfaces, 
minutely verruculose, ovate, 9 to 18 cm long, 7 to 11 cm wide, 
often slightly inequilateral, apex obtusely acuminate, base 
rounded, sometimes slightly cordate; lateral nerves 5 or 6 on 
each side of the midrib, rather distinct, stout, curved, anasto- 
mosing, the secondary ones and the reticulations obsolete. Flow- 
ers terete, cylindric, 5-merous, all sessile, about 2.4 cm long, in 
4-flowered fascicles, the fascicles sessile or on very short pedun- 
cles (peduncles 2 mm long or less), densely crowded along one 
side of the internodes, each flower subtended by a broad, rounded 
bracteole 1.5 to 2 mm in length. Calyx cylindric, somewhat 
thickened upward, about 4 mm long, the limb produced about 1 
mm, truncate, minutely ciliate. Petals 5, linear, free, 2 cm long, 
about 2 mm wide, the part above the insertion of the stamen 
about 7 mm long, thickened, acute. Anthers oblong, 3 mm long, 
continuous with the 2 mm long filament. 
Samar, Catubig River, Bur. Sci. 24265 Ramos, February 7, 1916. 
A species manifestly allied to Loranthus cuernosensis Elm. and to L. 
edanoii Merr., differing from the former in its flowers being densely crowded 
in 4-flowered sessile or shortly peduncled fascicles on the internodes, not 
axillary, and from the latter in its leaves being rounded or somewhat 
cordate at the base; its 4-flowered, not 6-flowered fascicles.; the peduncles, 
when present, much shorter; and its longer flowers. 
LORANTHUS PACHYCLADUS sp. nov. § Dendrophthoe. 
Frutex parasiticus, glaber, ramis ut videtur plus minusve car- 
nosis, in siccitate teretibus, laevis, nitidis, brunneo-olivaceis, 
circiter 1 cm diametro; foliis ternatis vel subternatis, oblongis 
ad oblongo-ellipticis, coriaceis, usque ad 10 cm longis, nitidis, 
supra olivaceis, subtus pallidis, apice obtusis, basi cuneatis, nervis 
utrinque circiter 6, valde obscuris vel subobsoletis ; inflorescentiis 
axillaribus terminalibusque, circiter 10 cm longis, pedunculatis, 
