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so, reddish-brown ; branchlets somewhat crowded, leafless in 
their lower parts, the leaves rather crowded above the middle. 
Leaves subcoriaceous, brittle when dry, brownish, oblong-ovate 
or oblong, 2.5 to 5 cm long, 1 to 2 cm wide, acute or somewhat 
acuminate, base somewhat cordate, equilateral or subequilateral, 
the upper surface scabrid, usually with few hairs along the 
midrib, the lower surface of about the same color as the upper, 
prominently pubescent with pale hairs on the midrib, lateral 
nerves, and primary reticulations, the ultimate reticulations close, 
evident on both surfaces, margins closely and finely coriaceous- 
serrulate ; lateral nerves about 5 on each side of the midrib, prom- 
inent, ascending, impressed on the upper surface ; petioles 
densely pale-villous, about 2 mm long. Cymes axillary, few- 
flowered, pubescent, 4 to 7 mm long. Flowers 5-merous. Male 
flowers: Sepals 5, elliptic to elliptic-ovate, concave, about 1.8 mm 
long, imbricate, glabrous except the slightly ciliate margins. 
Stamens 5. Pistillode cylindric, truncate, 1 mm long, glabrous, 
except the distinctly ciliate base. Female flowers similar to the 
males, the style-arms 1 mm long. Fruit reddish, 2.5 mm long, 
ovoid, fleshy, glabrous, more or less wrinkled when dry, the seed 
subglobose, about 1.2 mm in diameter. 
Camiguin de Mindanao, in thickets on slopes of the old volcano. Bur. Sci. 
H600 Ramos, April 27, 1912. 
A species well characterized by its depauperate size, small crowded 
leaves, short petioles and cymes, and other characters. It resembles 
somewhat Trema amboinensis Blume, and is undoubtedly allied to that 
species, but is quite distinct in many essential characters. 
LORANTHACEAE. 
LORANTHUS L. 
LORANTHUS CONFUSUS sp. nov. § Cichlanthus. 
Frutex parasiticus, ramis elongatis, tenuibus, ramulis subtus 
foliis inflorescentiisque indumento stellato-leproso pallido dense 
obtecto; foliis oppositis, breviter petiolatis, oblongis ad anguste 
elliptico-oblongis, rotundatis vel acutis, usque ad 5.5 cm longis; 
racemis brevibus, paucifloris; floribus 4-meris, corolla 12 mm 
longa. 
A slender parasitic shrub, the branches elongated, the branch- 
lets terete, about 1 mm thick, these, the lower surfaces of the 
leaves and the inflorescence densely covered with a pale, stellate- 
leprose indumentum, the tips of the branchlets sometimes fer- 
rugineous. Leaves opposite, coriaceous, oblong to narrowly 
elliptic-oblong, 2 to 5.5 cm long, 8 to 20 mm wide, apex rounded 
