PHILIPPINE LORANTHACEiiE. 
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lary one to three in each axil, about 4 mm long, each bearing at its apex 
two sessile flowers. Calyx 6 mm long, cylindric, the limb produced about 
1.5 mm, somewhat spreading, obscurely toothed, each subtended by one 
broadly ovate, obtuse, 2.5 to 3 mm long bract, and a second similar 
one as long, but wider, which is retuse at the apex, apparently formed 
of two connate bracteoles. Corolla 1.5 cm long, inflated below, angled, 
in anthesis about 6 mm in diameter, narrowed to 3.5 mm at the apex, 
the tube 3 to 4 mm long, the lobes 6, 4 mm wide below, narrowed to 2 
mm above, the reflexed portion above the insertion of the stamens 5 to 
6 mm long. Filament about 2 mm long; anthers continuous, 3 mm long. 
Mindanao, Province of Surigao, Catel, Merrill 5444, October 5, 1906, parasitic 
on various shrubs along the river slightly above the influence of tide-water. 
A species well characterized by its short, 2-flowered peduncles, the flowers 
sessile, 6-merous, each subtended by two bracteoles. 
§ Lepiostegeres. 
42. Loranthus congestiflorus sp. nov. 
Glaber; foliis oppositis, petiolatis, crasse coriaceis, oblongo-ovatis vel 
ovato-ellipticis, usque ad 9 cm longis, apice acutis, leviter acuminatis, 
vel obtusis, basi acutis, nervis utrinque circiter 4, obscuris, vel obsoletis; 
capitulis axillaribus terminalibusque, sessilibus, circiter 30-floris, bracteis 
6 ad 10 arete imbricatis involucratis, interioribus circiter 2.5 cm longis, 
exterioribus minoribus, deciduis; floribus brevissime pedicellatis, 6-meris, 
3 cm longis. 
Glabrous throughout. Branches stout, terete, gray, the younger ones 
smooth, reddish-brown. Leaves opposite, oblong-ovate to ovate-elliptic, 
5 to 9 cm long, 2 to 3.5 cm wide, thickly coriaceous, brown or olivaceous 
when dry, dull or very slightly shining, the apex acute, slightly acuminate 
or obtuse, the base acute ; nerves about 4 on each side of the midrib, very 
obscure or entirely wanting; petioles 0.5 to 1.5 cm long, stout. In- 
florescence of sessile, axillary and terminal, many-flowered, globose heads, 
before anthesis entirely inclosed by 6 to 10, coriaceous, imbricated 
bracts, the inner ones at the time of anthesis elliptic-ovate, 2.5 cm long, 
the outer ones suborbicular, smaller, all coriaceous, brown, shining, decid- 
uous; in immature specimens the bracts are much smaller, and the heads 
are globose, but with the increase in size of the heads, the bracts also 
increase in size. Flowers about 30 in each head, very shortly pedicelled, 
racemosely arranged on a very stout, short rachis. Calyx about 4 mm 
long, somewhat angled. Corolla 2.6 to 2.8 cm long, greenish-white to 
greenish-yellow, the tube about 3 mm long, the lobes 2 mm wide below, 
gradually narrowed upwards, the reflexed portion above the insertion of 
the anthers 8 mm long. Filaments 2 mm long; anthers continuous, 5 
mm long. 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, Mount Tonglon, For. Bur. 5037 Curran, August, 
1906 (type), For. Bur. 10833 Curran, December, 1908, For. Bur. 11093 Wliitford, 
