80 
MERRILL. 
petioles 4 to 8 mm long; midrib prominent, the lateral nerves 
obsolete. Flowers in axillary, solitary, 4-flowered, sessile heads, 
surrounded by numerous, grayish-brown, chartaceous, imbricate 
bracts, the outer bracts broadly ovate, acute or acuminate, 3 to 4 
mm long, the inner ones gradually longer, ovate-lanceolate, 
prominently acuminate, the innermost up to 1 cm long, the ul- 
timate two or three strongly imbricate forming a beaked 1 cm 
long calyptra that falls as a whole. Flowers pink and greenish, 
sessile. Calyx 3.5 to 4 mm long, somewhat angled by contact 
with those of the other flowers in the same receptacle, slightly 
and irregularly 3- or 4-toothed, the limb slightly produced. 
Corolla about 2 cm long, 4-lobed, the lobes united for the lower 
3 to 4 mm forming a short tube about 2.5 mm in diameter, the 
part above the insertion of the stamens linear-oblong, 6 mm long, 
about 0.6 mm wide. Filaments 1.5 mm long; anthers continuous, 
linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 3 mm long. Style slender, 2 cm 
long. 
Luzon, Bontoc Subprovince, Malamey, Vanoverbergh 129Jf, June 28, 1911, 
parasitic on trees, altitude about 1,890 m. 
A very distinct species of the section Lepiostegeres, entirely different 
from the few other species of the section known from the Philippines. 
Loranthus pentagonus sp. nov. § Dendrophthoe. 
Frutex glaber, ramulis crassis, acute pentagonis; foliis alter- 
nis, coriaceis, oblongis vel oblongo-ellipticis, usque ad 12 cm 
longis, petiolatis, obtusis vel acutis, basi acutis vel leviter acu- 
minatis, nervis utrinque vix distinctis, 5 vel 6 ; inflorescentiis in 
axillis superioribus ; floribus 6-meris, circiter 5 cm longis, ses- 
silibus, solitariis, in diadibus, vel in triadibus dispositis. 
A glabrous parasitic shrub, the branchlets stout, 5 to 8 mm 
in diameter, brown when dry, distinctly and sharply 5-angled. 
Leaves alternate, thickly coriaceous, oblong to oblong-elliptic, 
7 to 12 cm long, 3 to 5.5 cm wide, brownish-olivaceous when 
dry, the lower surface slightly paler than the upper one, slightly 
shining, apex acute or obtuse, base more or less narrowed, acute 
or somewhat decurrent-acuminate, rarely subrounded; nerves 5 
or 6 on each side of the midrib, not prominent, the reticulations 
obsolete or nearly so; petioles 1 to 1.5 cm long. Inflorescence 
in the uppermost axils, the rachis stout, 4 to 6 cm long, bearing 
alternate stout branchlets 1 cm long or less, each branchlet 
bearing at its apex from 1 to 3 sessile flowers, the bracteole 
subtending the flowers broadly triangular-ovate, concave, obtuse, 
about 4 mm long. Flowers 6-merous, yellowish, stout. Calyx 
cylindric, about 8 mm long, 4.5 mm in diameter, truncate, or 
very slightly and obscurely toothed. Corolla 4.5 cm long, the 
