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MERRILL. 
or acute, base narrowed, acute, the upper surface, when young, 
stellate-leprose, soon becoming quite glabrous; nerves 3 or 4 on 
each side of the midrib, slender, not prominent; petioles 2 mm 
long. Racemes axillary, short, solitary or fascicled, 2- to 5- 
flowered, the rachis about as long as the petiole. Flowers 4- 
merous, somewhat curved. Pedicels about 3 mm long, the brac- 
teole ovate, concave, 0.5 mm long. Calyx 3.5 to 4 mm long, 
narrowed below into a pseudo-stalk, narrowly obovoid, truncate. 
Corolla 12 mm long, tube slightly inflated. Reflexed parts of 
the lobes above the insertion of the stamens 4 mm long, narrowly 
oblong to linear-oblong. Anther sessile, erect, 1 mm long. Fruit 
(immature) narrowly obovoid, 5 mm long, shortly stipitate 
densely stellate-leprose with a pale indumentum. 
Luzon, without definite locality, Cuming 1959 (type) : Province of Union, 
Elmer 5711, February, 1904, Bur. Sci. 12951 Fenix, December, 1910: 
Province of Pangasinan, Bur. Sci. U977 Ramos, December, 1907, Alberto 35, 
May, 1904 : Province of Tarlac, Merrill s. n., July, 1903. 
This form was previously considered by me ^ to be referable to Loranthus 
sphenoideus Blume, but I am now of the opinion that it is specifically dis- 
tinct. It differs from the Philippine material that has been referred to 
Loranthus sphenoideus in its pale, not ferruginous indumentum, its rela- 
tively much narrower, differently shaped leaves, and its somewhat smaller 
flowers. It is manifestly very closely allied to Blume’s species, but less 
closely allied to Loranthus estipitatus Stapf. 
LORANTHUS SIMILIS sp. nov. § Cichlanthus. 
Species praecedente affinis, differt foliis majoribus, petiole 
longioribus, indumento ferrugineo, floribusque longioribus, 1.8 
cm longis. 
A slender parasitic shrub, the branches terete, brown, lenti- 
cellate, the branchlets densely brown-stellate-leprose, as are the 
petioles, lower surfaces of the leaves, and the inflorescence. 
Leaves elliptic to oblong-elliptic, coriaceous, 5 to 7 cm long, 2 to 
3 cm wide, rounded, base somewhat narrowed, rounded or sub- 
acute, brown when dry, the upper surface glabrous, somewhat 
shining, the lower surface densely brown-stellate-leprose ; nerves 
5 or 6 on each side of the midrib, rather distinct beneath, anas- 
tomosing; petioles 8 to 10 mm long. Racemes axillary, solitary 
or several at each node, few-flowered, the rachis about as long as 
the petioles, the pedicels 2 to 3 mm long, the bracteole concave, 
ovate, 1.3 mm long, all parts, including the outside of the flowers, 
densely stellate-leprose. Calyx subcylindric, 3 mm long, slightly 
or not narrowed toward the base. Corolla 18 mm long, slender. 
’This Journal 4 (1909) Bot. 139. 
