xni, c, 5 Merrill: Noteworthy Philippine Plants 279 
elliptic, keeled, 7 to 11 mm long, 3.5 to 6 mm wide. Flowers 
6 -merous, red, sessile, each triad subtended by a bracteole. 
Calyx cylindric, somewhat thickened upward, 3 mm long, the 
limb produced about 1 mm, somewhat spreading, thin, more or 
less crenate-lacerate. Corolla in bud about 18 mm long, cylin- 
dric, somewhat enlarged in the median portion, the lobes wholly 
united for the lower 5 mm, the free parts 1.5 mm wide below, 
narrowed upward, the part above the insertion of the anther 
linear, reflexed, 3.5 mm long, acute. Anther linear, subsessile, 
2.5 mm long. 
Samar, Caminiwan on the Catubig River, Bur. Sci. 2U135 Ramos, Feb- 
ruary 8, 1916, at low altitudes. 
A species of the section Macrosolen not very closely allied to the others 
of this group known from the Philippines. The elliptic to oblong-elliptic, 
carinate bracteoles, one bracteole subtending each triad of sessile flowers, 
are characteristic. 
LORANTHUS SPRAGUE! nom. nov. 
Loranthus pubiflorus Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 7 (1912) Bot. 263, 
non Sprague. 
Mr. T. A. Sprague of the Royal Gardens, Kew, England, has kindly called 
my attention to the fact that Loranthus pubiflorus Merr. is a name pre- 
occupied by the African L. pubiflorus Sprague, the latter published a few 
months before the Philippine one, and I accordingly propose the above new 
name for the Philippine form described by me. 
LORANTHUS PALAWANENSIS nom. nov. 
Loranthus fragilis Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 9 (1914) Bot. 278, non 
Sprague. 
Loranthus fragilis Sprague was published in 1910 for an African species, 
and accordingly the Philippine form described by me in 1914 under the same 
specific name is here called Loranthus palawanensis Merr. 
ELYTRANTHE Blume 
ELYTRANTHE ACUfiAE sp. nov. 
Frutex parasiticus, glaber, ramis ramulisque teretibus; foliis 
oppositis, coriaceis, in siccitate pallide brunneo-olivaceis, nitidis, 
ovatis ad oblongo-ovatis, usque ad 18 cm longis, acuminatis, basi 
rotundatis, nervis utrinque circiter 8 , distantibus, subtus sub- 
prominentibus ; racemis axillaribus, brevibus, paucifloris, bracte- 
olis usque ad | connatis; floribus 6 -meris, curvatis, circiter 5 
cm longis. 
A parasitic glabrous shrub, the branches and branchlets pale- 
brownish, terete, smooth, the internodes 3.5 to 11 cm long. 
Leaves opposite, coriaceous, ovate to oblong-ovate, about 18 cm 
long, 8 to 9 cm wide, apex prominently acuminate, base rounded, 
when dry pale-brownish-olivaceous, shining ; lateral nerves about 
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