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long, 8 to 10 mm wide, obtuse, base prominently cordate, the basal 
auricles half amplexicaul. Female inflorescence axillary, de- 
pressed-globose, sessile, solitary, 1 to 1.5 cm in diameter, very 
dense. Perianth-segmente 3 or 4, spatulate to oblong-oblan- 
ceolate, 1.5 mm long, the apical part somewhat cucullate, obtuse, 
base long narrowed. Achenes narrowly elliptic to oblong-ovoid, 
acute, smooth, shining, 1 mm long. Staminate inflorescence 
not seen. 
Leyte, Dagarni, C. A. Wenzel 98, March 29, 1913, climbing on trees in 
forested foothills, altitude about 60 meters. 
A species apparently sufficiently distinct from Procris frutescens Blume 
and P. pedunculata Wedd., to both of which it is manifestly allied. It 
has much larger, more numerously nerved leaves than either, and the 
prominently cordate, oblong to oblong-ovate, sessile, somewhat amplexicaul 
abortive leaves seems to be characteristic. 
LORANTHACEAE 
LORANTHUS Linnaeus 
LORANTHUS WENZELII sp. nov. (§ Heteranthus.) 
Frutex parasiticus, scandens, glaber, ramis ramulisque tereti- 
bus; foliis verticellatis, ternis vel quarteniis, crasse coriaceis, 
ovato-ellipticis vel oblongo-ellipticis, utrinque subaequaliter an- 
gustatis, apice acuminatis, basi acutis, petiolatis, usque ad 18 cm 
longis, nervis lateralibus obscuris ; floribus 5-meris, circiter 2 cm 
longis, solitariis vel leviter fasciculatis, breviter pedicellatis, 
axillaribus vel extra-axillaribus. 
A parasitic, scandent, glabrous shrub, the branches and branch- 
lets terete, the former light grayish-brown, the latter smooth, 
about 3 mm in diameter, dark-brown, often somewhat compressed 
at the nodes, the intemodes 8 to 10 cm long. Leaves whorled, 
3 or 4 at each node, oblong-elliptic to ovate-elliptic, 12 to 
18 cm long, 5.5 to 8 cm wide, thickly coriaceous, somewhat 
brownish and dull when dry, about equally narrowed to the 
prominently and usually slenderly acuminate apex and to the 
acute base; lateral nerves 6 to 8 on eaxh side of the midrib, 
slender, obscure; petioles stout, 1.5 to 3 cm long. Flowers 
yellow, 5-merous, solitary or few together, axillary or along 
the branches between the nodes, their pedicels 1 to 1.5 mm long, 
the solitary apical bracteole orbicular-ovate, concave, rounded, 
1.2 mm long, about 2 mm wide. Calyx somewhat funnel- 
shaped, 3 mm long, 2.5 rnm in diameter at the apex, the 
limb slightly produced, truncate. Petals 5, entirely free, about 
17 mm long, 1.5 mm wide at the base, somewhat enlarged 
