286 The Philippine Journal of Science 1914 
in ramis seriatim dispositis et- ad nodos fasciculatis ; petalis 
intus ad basim ligulatis. 
A parasitic glabrous shrub, the branches and branchlets 
terete, reddish-brown, smooth except where the flowers are 
borne, the internodes 10 to 15 cm long, the ultimate branchlets 
about 2 mm in diameter. Leaves opposite, coriaceous, oblong- 
ovate, 8 to 12 cm long, about 5 cm wide, greenish-olivaceous on 
both surfaces when dry, not shining, the apex shortly and obtusely 
acuminate, the base acute, sometime a little decurrent; lateral 
nerves slender, very obscure, nearly obsolete, about 6 on each 
side of the midrib; petioles 3 to 5 mm long. Flowers red, 
5-merous, the peduncles of the double triads stout, 2 mm long, 
fascicled at the nodes and also numerous ones seriately arranged, 
along one side of the branches along the internodes. Flowers 
6 on each peduncle, sessile in two triads, each flower subtended 
by a reniform-orbicular, rounded, obscurely pubescent, 2 mm 
long bracteole. Calyx cylindric, 3.5 to 4 mm long, the limb 
produced about 1 mm, truncate, minutely ciliate-pubescent. 
Buds cylindric. Petals 5, free, 1.8 mm wide below, 1.5 mm 
wide above, 2 to 2.2 cm long, the reflexed part above the insertion 
of the stamens 6 to 7 mm long, each petal with a membrana- 
ceous, reflexed, ovate, obtuse, 1 mm long, ligule-like organ on the 
inner side attached about 3 mm above the base. Filaments 
about 2 mm long; anthers continuous, linear, 3 to 4 mm long. 
Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Mount Pulongbato, Bur. Sci. 16U2U 
Reillo, September 28, 1912. 
A very characteristic species, distinguishable by its peculiarly arranged 
flowers, the flowers sessile in double triads on very short peduncles which 
are fascicled at the nodes and serially arranged along one side of the 
internodes. The peculiar ligule-like growth on the inner surface of the 
petals shortly above the base is characteristic, both of the present species 
and of the very similar and closely allied Loranthus cauliflorus Merr. 
Loranthus seriatus is distinguished from L. cauliflorus by its very obscurely 
veined leaves and its flowers in double triads, that is, 6 flowers in two 
triads sessile at the apex of each peduncle, not with three flowers only as 
in the latter species. 
LORANTHUS FALCATI FOLI US sp. nov. § Heteranthus. 
Frutex scandens, glaber, ramulis teretibus; foliis oppositis, 
usque ad 16 cm longis, brevissime petiolatis, oblongo-lanceolatis, 
leviter falcatis, coriaceis, opacis, acuminatis, basi acutis vel obtu- 
sis, nervis utrinque circiter 8, obscuris, subobsoletis ; floribus 
5-meris, ad nodos fasciculatis, sessilibus, circiter 2.5 cm longis, 
alabastro cylindraceo. 
A scandent, parasitic, glabrous shrub, the stems long-climbing 
on the host, the branches and branchlets terete, the latter reddish- 
