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ulent, reniform, about 2.5 mm wide, 1.5 mm long, rounded. 
Flowers 5-merous, orange, the tips of the petals glaucous. Calyx 
cylindric, 5 mm long, puberulent, the limb slightly produced, 
very obscurely crenulate or entire. Corolla 12 mm long, puber- 
ulent externally, slightly inflated, cylindric, the lobes united for 
the basal 3 to 4 mm, forming a tube, the reflexed part above 
the insertion of the anthers oblong, obtuse, 2.5 mm long. 
Anther lanceolate, sessile, 2 mm long. 
Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, coast opposite Olutanga Island, For. 
Bur. 13297 Foxworthy, De Mesa, & Villamil, May 18, 1912, on Hopea sp., 
altitude about 20 meters. 
A very characteristic species, recognizable by its opposite, sessile, coria- 
ceous leaves which are rounded at the apex and cordate at the base, its 
few-flowered, axillary, puberulent inflorescences, and puberulent flowers. 
In leaf-form it is quite similar to Loranthus merrillii Elm., but is entirely 
different in its inflorescence. 
LORANTHUS DEMESAE sp. nov. § Dendrophthoe. 
Frutex glaber, ramis ramulisque teretibus; foliis oppositis, 
sessilibus, coriaceis, nitidis, usque ad 10 cm longis, ovatis 
vel late elliptico-ovatis, apice acutis vel leviter acuminatis, basi 
rotundatis, reticulatis; nervis utrinque circiter 10 , tenuibus; in- 
florescentiis axillaribus, solitariis, brevibus, paucifloris; floribus 
circiter 2 cm longis 6 -meris; corolla inflata, infra cylindrica, 
supra acute 6 -angulata. 
A glabrous parasitic shrub the branches and branchlets terete, 
brownish or somewhat grayish, smooth. Leaves opposite, ses- 
sile, coriaceous, shining when dry, brownish-olivaceous, of about 
the same color on both surfaces, 6 to 10 cm long, 4 to 6 cm wide, 
the apex acute or somewhat acuminate, the base rounded ; lateral 
nerves about 10 on each side of the midrib, slender, not promi- 
nent, the reticulations rather fine, the lateral nerves anastomosing 
near the margin. Inflorescence axillary, solitary, few-flowered, 
the rachis 5 mm long or less, the flowers 2 or 3 (rarely more?). 
Calyx oblong-cylindric, truncate, 3 mm long, 1.8 mm in diameter. 
Corolla red, about 18 mm long, much inflated, 6 mm in diameter, 
the lower one-half cylindric, the upper part sharply and promi- 
nently 6 -angled, the tube two-thirds to three-fourths as long as 
the corolla, the lobes about 4 mm wide at the base, narrowed to 
the insertion of the anthers and there 2 mm wide, thence 
gradually narrowed to the acute or obtuse apex, the reflexed 
portion above the insertion of the anthers 5 to 6 mm long, 
lanceolate. Anthers oblong, 2 mm long, much more slender than 
are the thick, cylindric, 2.5 mm long filaments. 
