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umbellatis, ramis primariis 4 vel 5, 1 ad 1.5 cm longis; floribus 
in ramulis primariis in triadibus dispositis, lateralibus breviter 
pedicellatis, 6-meris, teretibus, infra leviter inflatis, circiter 5 
cm longis, segmentis crassis, linearis, tubo circiter 6 mm longo. 
A parasitic glabrous shrub, the branches stout, apparently 
fleshy when fresh, terete, smooth, shining, brownish-olivaceous 
when dry, about 1 cm in diameter, the branchlets longitudinally 
striate. Leaves ternate or subternate, oblong to oblong-elliptic, 
coriaceous, 8 to 10 cm long, 3 to 4 cm wide, shining, smooth, 
the upper surface somewhat olivaceous, the lower paler, apex 
obtuse, base cuneate; lateral nerves about 6 on each side of the 
midrib, slender, obscure, often obsolete or nearly so; petioles 
2 to 2.5 cm long. Inflorescences terminal and in the uppermost 
axils, peduncled, umbellate, the peduncles about 3 cm long, the 
primary branches 4 or 5, 1 to 1.5 cm long, each bearing at its 
apex a triad consisting of one central sessile flower and two 
lateral short-pedicelled ones, each subtended by a broadly ovate, 
obtuse, 2.5 mm long bract, the lateral pedicels 4 to 5 mm long. 
Flowers greenish-yellow, 6-merous, about 5 mm long. Calyx 
cylindric, 6 mm long, the limb truncate, produced about 1.5 mm. 
Corolla inflated in the lower 1 cm, terete, the lobes 6, united 
for the lower 6 to 7 mm, the free parts abruptly narrowed, 
linear, thickened, the reflexed part above the insertion of the 
filament about 10 mm long and 2 mm wide, thickened, promi- 
nently bicarinate inside by the extended margins, obtuse, slightly 
widened upward, linear. Filaments 4 to 5 mm long, the anthers 
continuous, linear, 7 to 8 mm long. 
Luzon, Ilocos Norte Province, Burgos, Bur. Sci. 27323 Ramos, March 10, 
1917, on trees in forests at low and medium altitudes. 
A remarkable species, well characterized by its rather long-peduncled, 
lax, umbellate inflorescences, the primary rays few in number, each bearing 
a single terminal triad of one sessile and two shortly pedicelled, 6-merous 
flowers, which are about 5 cm in length. It belongs in the group that Van 
Tieghem characterized as Stemmatophyllum, but is not at all closely allied 
to the other species belonging here, such as Loranthus haenkeanus Presl, 
L. curranii Merr., etc. 
LORANTHUS AMPLIFOLIUS sp. nov. § Lepeostegeres. 
Frutex parasiticus, glaber, ramis teretibus, ramulis leviter 
compressis ; foliis oppositis, ovatis ad late ovatis, usque ad 16 cm 
longis, coriaceis, obtusis, basi late acutis vel subtruncatis, nervis 
utrinque 8 ad 10 ; capitulis axillaribus, sessilibus, 15- ad 20-floris, 
bracteis coriaceis, exterioribus reniformibus, circiter 1 cm longis 
et 2 cm latis, interioribus obovatis, bracteolis lineari-oblongis vel 
oblongis; floribus sessilibus, 6-meris, circiter 21 mm longis. 
