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MERRILL. 
Loranthus formosus F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 164, non Blume. 
Loranthus globosus Vid. Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1886) 230, non Eoxb. 
Elytranthe ampullacea Engl. Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3 l (1889) 188; Merr. in Philip. 
Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 50. 
Philippines, without locality, Cuming 1951, 1963. Luzon, Province of Nueva 
Ecija, For. Bur. 81/59 Curran: Province of Zambales, For. Bur. 691/4 Curran: 
Province of Bataan, Whitford 86: Province of Bizal, Bur. Sci. -919 Ramos, For. 
Bur. 1/19 Ahern’s collector. Palawan, For. Bur. 3581 Curran. 
India to southern China, and the Malay Peninsula, south to Celebes. 
40. Loranthus macgregorii sp. nov. 
Glaber; foliis oppositis, coriaceis, oblongis, reetis vel leviter falcatis, 
usque ad 10 cm longis, apice obtusis, basi acutis vel obtusis, sessilibus, 
nervis utrinque circiter 4, subobsoletis, ascendentibus ; inflorescentiis 
axillaribus, solitariis vel binis; floribus sessilibus subeapitatis, 5-meris; 
corolla 16 mm longa. 
Glabrous throughout. Branches gray or brown, terete, rather slender. 
Leaves opposite, sessile, oblong, 6 to 10 cm long, 2 to 3 cm wide, coriace- 
ous, dull when dry, the apex blunt, the base acute or blunt; nerves about 
4 on each side of the midrib, very slender and obscure, ascending. 
Flowers three to six at the apex of each peduncle, sessile, not in triads, 
subcapitately arranged, the peduncles about 5 mm long, solitary or two 
in each axil. Calyx cylindric, slightly enlarged upwards, 5 mm long, 
the limb slightly produced, truncate, each subtended by an ovate, obtuse, 
2 mm long bract, and a wider bracteole of about the same length which 
is retuse, apparently formed of two connate braeteoles. Flowers 5- 
merous, yellow. Corolla 16 mm long, the buds angular, inflated below 
and slightly so at the apex, in anthesis about 5 mm in diameter below 
the middle, the tube about 5 mm long; lobes 4 mm wide at the base, 
narrowed to 1 mm in the median portion, the part above the insertion of 
the anthers reflexed, thick, fleshy, 5 mm long. Anthers sessile, 3.5 mm 
long. Style 14 mm long; stigma capitate. 
Bohol, Guindulman, Bur. Sci. 1266 McGregor, June, 1906. 
A species well characterized by its sessile subcapitate flowers which are 
congested and sessile at the ends of the short peduncles, each subtended by two 
bracts. 
41. Loranthus geminatus sp. nov. 
Glaber; foliis oppositis, petiolatis, coriaceis, anguste ovatis vel ovato- 
lanceolatis, usque ad 10 cm longis, acutis vel acuminatis, nervis utrinque 
5 ad 7, tenuibus, obscuris; inflorescentiis axillaribus, solitariis vel fascicu- 
latis, floribus 6-meris, sessilibus, geminatis; corolla 1.5 cm longa. 
Glabrous throughout. Branches dark-colored, terete, not lenticellate, 
the branchlets slightly compressed. Leaves coriaceous, very dark-brown 
or nearly black and slightly shining when dry, opposite, narrowly lanceo- 
late to ovate-lanceolate, 8 to 10 cm long, 3.5 to 5 cm wide, the base 
acute, the apex acute or acuminate; nerves 5 to 7 on each side of the 
midrib, slender, curved, obscure; petioles 5 mm long. Peduncles axil- 
