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MERRILL. 
35. Loranthus haenkeanus Presl ex Schultes Syst. 7 (1829) 113; DC. Prodr. 
4 (1830) 304; Vid. Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 231, Phan. Cuming. Philip. 
(1885) 140; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 184. 
Loranthus malifolius Presl 1. c. ; DC. 1. c.; Vid. 1. ce., Sinopsis Atlas (1883) 
t. 81, f ■ B.; F.-Vill. 1. c.; Naves in Blanco FI. Filip, ed. 3, pi. 439. 
Scurrula haenkeana et S. malifolia G. Don Gen. Hist. 3 (1834) 423. 
Dendrophthoe lieanlceana et D. malifolia Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. I 1 (1856) 822. 
Candollina haenkeana et C. malifolia Van Tiegh. in Bull. Soc. Bot, France 42 
(1895) 269. 
Candollina barthei Van Tiegh. 1. c. ? 
Loranthus barthei Engl. Nat. Pflanzenfam. Naclitr. 1 (1897) 129? 
Philippines, without locality, Cuming 1947, 195 7 . Luzon, Province of Ilocos 
Sur, For. Bur. 5657 Klemme: Province of Benguet, For. Bur. 15892 Bacani: 
Province of Union, Elmer 5537 : Province of Pangasinan, For. Bur. 18032 Merritt: 
Province of Tarlae, Hall s. n. : Province of Nueva Ecija, Bur. Sci. 5271 McGregor : 
Province of Pampanga, Bur. Sti. 1929 Foxworthy: Province of Bulacan, Yoder 
251: Manila, Lyon s. n.: Province of Bataan, Bur. Sci. 1618, 1894 Foxworthy, 
For. Bur. 90 Barnes. Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Mrs. Clemens s. n. 
A very characteristic, but rather variable species. I have not seen the types 
of the two species described by Presl, based on Heanke’s Philippine material, but 
the two have been distinguished by later authors by the erect and terminal in- 
florescence of L. haenkeanus, and the lateral and refracted inflorescence of L. 
malifolius, but these characters do not appear to me to be constant, and I can 
detect no other specific differences either in the material before me or in the 
original descriptions of the two species. The only description given by Van 
Tieghem for the third species, Candollina barthei, , is “ombelle terminale et 
refractee,” and I suspect that it, too, is only a form of L. haenkeanus Presl. On 
most of the specimens above cited, including both numbers of Cuming’s collection, 
5- and 6-merous flowers are to be found in the same umbel. 
Endemic. 
36. Loranthus curranii sp. nov. 
Glaber, inflorescentiis exeeptis; foliis alternis vel suboppositis, petio- 
latis, coriaceis, oblongo-lanceolatis, usque ad 15 cm longis, basi rotundatis 
vel acutis, apice acutis vel breviter acute acuminatis, nervis utrinque cir- 
citer 7, supra distinctis, subtus subobsoletis ; floribus 4-meris, circiter 3 cm 
longis, in triadibus dispositis, lateralibus breviter pedicellatis, intermedio 
sessile, triadibus umbellatim dispositis, pedunculis reflexis vel patulis, in 
ramis vetustioribus. 
Glabrous except the inflorescence. Branches terete, light-gray or 
brownish, stout. Leaves alternate or subopposite, coriaceous, brown when 
dry and somewhat shining, oblong-lanceolate, 11 to 15 cm long, 4 to 5 
cm wide, the base rounded or acute, the apex acute or shortly and sharply 
acuminate; nerves about 7 on each side of the midrib, nearly obsolete 
on the lower surface, on the upper rather distinct, anastomosing, curved, 
the reticulations lax; petioles 1 to 1.5 cm long, stout. Umbels solitary, 
the peduncles, pedicels and calyces densely ferruginous-puberulent, the 
corolla slightly so, the peduncles spreading or recurved, about 1 cm long, 
from the larger branches below the leaves, the flowers 4-merous, in 
crowded triads which are umbellately arranged, their peduncles 3 to 4 
