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floribus 4-meris, verticillatis, in spicis simplicibus axillaribus terminal i- 
busque solitariis, usque ad 3 cm longis dispositis. 
Branches terete, brown, glabrous. Leaves opposite, broadly ovate or 
broadly elliptic, subcoriaceous, broad and rounded at both base and apex, 
3 to 5 cm long, 2 to 3.5 cm wide, the younger leaves like the branchlets 
and inflorescence densely yellow-glandular-puberulent, the adult leaves 
glabrous and often shining on the upper surface, beneath densely pale- 
glandular-puberulent and somewhat shining; nerves 3 from the base, 
extending nearly to the apex, slender, not prominent, the reticulations 
very lax; petioles 3 to 5 mm long, ultimately glabrous. Spikes axillary 
and terminal, solitary, 3 cm long or less, the flowers 4-merous, sessile, 
whorled, each flower subtended by a small, ovate, acute, 1 mm long 
bract. Perianth-lobes narrowly ovate, acute, about 1 mm long. 
Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Port Banga, For. Bur. 9132 Whitford ct 
Hutchinson, January, 190S. 
A species well characterized by its broadly ovate or broadly elliptic leaves 
which are rounded at both ends, and its simple spikes. 
3. Notothixos philippinensis Elmer Lead. Philip. Bot. 2 (1908) 471 (phil- 
ippinense) . 
Ramulis foliisque junior ibus inflorescentiisque densissime aureo- 
glanduloso-puberulis ; foliis oppositis, petiolatis, subcoriaceis, supra gla- 
bris, subtus dense aureo- vel griseo-glanduloso-puberulis, ovatis, ovato- 
lanceolatis vel subellipticis, basi acutis vel obtusis, supra angustatis, apice 
acutis vel acuminatis, 4 ad 6 cm longis, circiter 2.5 cm latis, trinerviis ; 
inflorescentiis axillaribus terminalibusque, cymosis, 2 ad 5 cm longis ; 
floribus 4-meris, ad apices ramulorum subcapitato-congestis. 
Negros, Cuernos Mountains, near Dumaguete, Elmer 10111/, May, 1908, para- 
sitic on Canarium at an altitude of about 300 m. Readily distinguished among 
the Philippine species by its cymose inflorescence. 
The genus has three species in Australia, one in Ceylon, one in Penang, and 
the above three in the Philippines. 
G. GIN ALLOA North . 
1. Ginalloa cumingiana (Presl) F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 185; Vid. Phan. 
Cuming. Philip. (18S5) 141, Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 232. 
Viscum cumingiamim Presl Epim. (1851) 255; Walp. Ann. 2: 729. 
Philippines, without locality, Cuming 1968, type number. 
Endemic. 
Var. angustifolia var. nov. 
Differt a typo foliis multo minoribus angustioribusque, 2 ad 4 cm 
longis, 2 ad 4 mm latis. 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, Mount Pulog, For. Bur. 1621/2 Curran, Merritt, 
d Zscholcke. Negros, Canlaon Volcano, Bur. Sci. 1139 Banks, June, 1900. 
