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MERRILL. 
channeled on the inside and inclosing the style; anther about 12 
mm long, 3 mm thick, somewhat curved, the connective rather 
broad, but semi-cylindric, so that the lateral anther-cells are 
contiguous, not produced, truncate or retuse at the apex. Stam- 
inodes linear, 1 to 1.5 cm long, thin, flexuous, 1 mm wide or less 
from a somewhat broader base, attached at the angle between 
the lip and the posterior petal. Ovary 3 to 4 mm long, 3-celIed ; 
ovules many, spreading, attached along the inner angles of the 
cells; style slender, surrounded by the hollowed filament below, 
emerging above, nearly as long as the stamen; stigma obovate, 
about 2 mm long, somewhat oblique, truncate or hollowed, 
minutely ciliate. Nectaries 2, suborbicular, compressed, about 
2 mm in diameter, one on each side of the style at the base but 
free from it. Fruit edible, subellipsoid, 2 to 2.5 cm long, the 
pericarp coriaceous, very tardily dehiscent. Seeds numerous, 
about 3 mm long. 
Luzon, Bontoc Subprovince, Malamey (Pinggat), Vanoverbergh 956, 
October 19, 1910, and mature fruits August 17, 1911, along streams at an 
altitude of about 1,500 meters, locally known to the Igorots as agbab. 
This genus is closely allied to Riedelia Oliver, and appears to be some- 
what intermediate between that genus and Alpinia. It differs from Riedelia 
in its rather large floral bracts, and especially in its two anterior petals 
being united for one-third to one-half their length, its narrow and mem- 
branaceous lip being adherent to the two anterior petals as high as the 
cleft between them, the lip there split into two linear lobes as long as the 
free parts of the anterior petals. 
The genus is dedicated to Father Morice Vanoverbergh, by whom it 
was discovered, in appreciation of his intensive and enthusiastic botanical 
exploration of the region in and about Bauco where his mission station 
is located. The species is dedicated to his colleague. Father Jules Sepulchre 
who came to the Philippines in November, 1907, and whose untimely death 
occurred in Bontoc February 13, 1912. Father Sepulchre established the 
Bauco mission, and rendered much assistance to Father Vanoverbergh, 
who was associated with him in the missonary work, in the latter’s botan- 
ical explorations. 
LORANTHACEAE. 
LORANTHUS L. 
Loranthus appendicuEatus nom. nov. 
Cleistoloranthus verticillatus Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 4 (1909) 
Bot. 150, 5 (1910) Bot. 345, non Loranthus verticillatus Ruiz & 
Pav. 
This was originally described by me as a new genus and species, on the 
basis of a single collection from Mount Pulog, Bengmet Province, Luzon. 
The original material was taken to represent mature or nearly mature 
specimens, but a recent collection of the same species shows that the type 
was quite immature, the flowers being in young bud only. In the original 
specimens the corolla was considered to be composed of four almost entirely 
