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brown or grayish, 3 mm in diameter or less, the internodes 5 to 
8 cm long. Leaves opposite, subsessile or very shortly petioled, 
oblong-lanceolate, 10 to 16 cm long, 3 to 6 cm wide, somewhat 
falcate, not shining, coriaceous, the apex acuminate, the base 
obtuse or acute, brownish or greenish when dry; lateral nerves 
subobsolete, about 8 on each side of the midrib, very obscure; 
petioles 2 mm long or less. Flowers 5-merous, axillary, sessile, 
fascicled, 12 or less at each node, red below, yellow above, the 
buds rather slender, cylindric, outside very obscurely pubescent 
with very short scattered hairs. Calyx 3.5 to 4 mm long, straight 
or somewhat curved, the limb produced about 2 mm, membrana- 
ceous, somewhat spreading, truncate, margins minutely ciliate- 
pubescent. Petals 5, quite free, 1.5 mm wide below, very 
slightly narrowed upward, the apex obtuse, the reflexed portion 
above the insertion on the stamens linear-oblong, about 8 mm 
long, 1 mm wide. Filaments 4 mm long; anthers continuous, 
linear, 2 mm long. 
Mindanao, Bukidnon Subprovince, Sumilao, on trees in forests, Bur. Sci. 
15746 Fenix, August 3, 1912. 
A species well characterized by its scandent habit, its opposite, subsessile, 
subfalcate, obscurely nerved, coriaceous leaves, and its quite sessile, axillary, 
fascicled flowers. It is perhaps as closely allied to Loranthus cuernosensis 
Elm. as to any other species, but is very different from that form. 
LORANTHUS M EDI N I LLICOLA sp. nov. § Heteranthus. 
Frutex scandens, parasiticus, inflorescentiis exceptis glaber; 
ramulis teretibus, tenuibus; foliis verticillatis, lanceolatis vel 
ovato-lanceolatis, coriaceis, acuminatis, usque ad 10 cm longis, 
nervis utrinque 4 vel 5, obscuris ; inflorescentiis axillaribus, soli- 
tariis, pedunculatis, subumbellatis, paucifloris; floribus 4-meris, 
circiter 3 cm longis. 
A slender, nearly glabrous, scandent, parasitic shrub, the 
branches and branchlets rather slender, terete, light-gray or 
brownish, mostly smooth, the ultimate branchlets 2 mm in 
diameter or less. Leaves whorled, usually 4 at each node, the 
internodes 4 to 8 cm long, the leaf-blades coriaceous, lanceolate 
or oblong-lanceolate, 6 to 10 cm long, 1 to 3.4 cm wide, narrowed 
below to the acute base and above to the rather slenderly acumi- 
nate apex, rather dull when dry; lateral nerves 4 or 5 on each 
side of the midrib, slender, obscure, ascending; petioles 4 to 8 
mm long. Inflorescence axillary, solitary, the peduncle slender, 
1.5 to 2 cm long, sparingly pubescent, bearing at its apex 4 or 
more subumbellately arranged branchlets, each branchlet bear- 
ing two, spicately arranged, sessile flowers, the branchlets pubes- 
cent, about 4 mm long. Flowers sessile, 4-merous, bright yellow 
