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white, densely many tlowcred, the rhac-his pubernlent witli minute hairs. 
Perianth 4-parted, the segments ohlong-ovate, obtuse, about 1.5 mm. long. 
Stamens 4; lilauients inflexed in bud, exserted in anthesis, 3 to 3 mm. 
long; anthers about 1 mm. long. Pistillate intlorescence axillary, spicate, 
short, 1 to 1.5 cm. long, few (about 8) flowered, the rhachis pubernlent. 
Perianth 4-parted, the segments imbricate, suliecjual, oblong-ovate, obtuse, 
1.7 to 3 mm. long. (3vary sessile, oblong, exserted, 1-celled, glabrous; 
style 3 mm. long, bipartite for two-thirds its length. 
Mindanao, District of Davao (27S DeVore tC- Hoover)', Aiiril, 1903. Basilan 
(2440 Hutchinson) December. 190.5. “Common in forests above 15 m.” Hutch- 
inson. Bagobo Hulas, in Basilan Olis. 
A species cliaracterized by its comparatively short inflorescence ami caudate- 
acuminate leaves, the margins of which are entire below and more or less 
irregularly crenate-serrate above. 
UIITICACE^E. 
CHAMABAINIA Wight. 
Chamabainia squamigera (Wall.) Wedd. in DC. Prodr. 1 6 (1809) 218. G. ciis- 
pidata. Wight; Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 5 (1888) 580; C. H. Wright in 
Forbes & Hemsl. Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 26 (1899) 489. 
Luzon, District of Lepanto, Mount Data (4550 Merrill) November 4, 1905. In 
the mossy forest at about 2,250 m. Western China to Northern India south to 
Ceylon. 
An interesting case of geographical distribution, no species of the genus having 
previously been reported from the Philippines. So far as I am able to determine 
from descriptions alone, the Philippine form is not distinct from the Asiatic 
species to which it is here referred. 
LOIJANTHAChLE. 
LORANTHUS Linn. 
Loranthus ahernianus IMerrill sp. nov. % Dendropthoe. 
Shruljby, branched, glabrous except the somewhat furfuraceous intior- 
esceiice. Branches glabrous, rugose, lenticellate, reddish brown when 
dry, rather slender. Leaves opposite, glabrous, coriaceous, pale when 
dry, dull, ovate to oblong ovate, the base rather liroad, rounded or obtuse, 
the apex acuminate, G to 10 cm. long, 3.5 to 5 cm. wide, the midrib prom- 
inent, the lateral nerves very irregular, obscure, petioles 1 cm. long. 
Intlorescence of solitary, axillary, lateral and terminal racemose panicles 
(i to. 8 cm. long, rather many flowered, the axis and short branches fur- 
furacoous, the 1.5 to 3 cm. long peduncles subtended by a wdiorl of small 
iniljricated bracts, the l)ranches mostly above the middle, about 5 mm. 
long, each usually tliree flowered, the middle flower sessile, the two lateral 
ones pediceled. Flowers slender, tubular, about 3.5 cm. long, yellow, 
slightly enlarged l)elow and at the apex, the subtending bracts ovate, that 
of the sessile flower acuminate, 4 mm. long, those of the lateral pediceled 
flowers smaller and often acute, the pedicels of the latei-al floAvers 3 to 4 
