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MERRILL. 
acuminatis; floribus in triadibus fasciculatis in radicibus vel in 
ramulis specialibus, inflorescentiis brevibus, puberulis; floribus 
4-meris, circiter 3 cm longis, tenuibus, extus puberulis. 
A parasitic shrub glabrous except the inflorescence, the 
branches and branchlets smooth, grayish or brownish, terete, 
stout, smooth, the apparently specialized flower-bearing branches 
(roots?) with a brown scaly bark. Leaves in whorls of three 
or four, the internodes 10 to 12 cm long, petioled, usually brown 
when dry, scarcely shining, thickly coriaceous, brittle, oblong to 
narrowly oblong-ovate, acute or somewhat acuminate, 12 to 15 
cm long, 4 to 8 cm wide; petioles stout, 1 to 1.5 cm long; lateral 
nerves 4 to 6 on each side of the midrib, not prominent, the 
reticulations obsolete. Flowers in fascicled triads, the fascicles 
scattered, brown-puberulent, the inflorescences, excluding the 
corollas, less than 1 cm long. Bracteoles oblong-ovate, obtuse, 
puberulent, about 1.5 mm long. Calyx urceolate-campanulate, 
brown-puberulent, about 3 mm long, the limb somewhat spread- 
ing, about 1 mm long, truncate. Corolla slender, about 28 mm 
long, outside slightly puberulent, the lobes united for the lower 
2 to 3 mm into a short tube, the free parts slender, about 1.5 
mm wide, the reflexed part above the insertion of the stamen 
narrowly oblong, about 5 mm long, 1.3 mm wide, acute or obtuse. 
Anthers erect, continuous, narrowly oblong, about 3 mm long, 
the filaments 2 mm long. 
Luzon, Province of Laguna, near Paete, For. Bur. 13086 Curran, De- 
cember 17, 1911, in forests. 
A very characteristic species, distinguishable by its whorled, thickly 
coriaceous, petioled leaves, and its flowers puberulent externally and borne 
in fascicled short triads on the roots or on special leafless branches. In 
the scattered character of its inflorescences it resembles Loranthus mira- 
bilis Muell.-Arg. & Van Huerck, but is not, however, at all allied to that 
species. 
LORANTHUS CAPITULI FERUS sp. nov. § Lepiostegeres. 
Ramulis brunneo-furfuraceis exceptis glaber; foliis oppositis 
vel suboppositis, oblongo-ellipticis ad oblongo-ovatis, coriaceis, 
utrinque angustatis, petiolatis, usque ad 12 cm longis; capitulis 
axillaribus, solitariis, sessilibus, paucifloris; floribus circiter 1.8 
cm longis, 6-meris. 
A glabrous parasitic shrub, the branches and branchlets stout, 
brown, the younger parts furfuraceous, more or less rugose 
when dry. Leaves opposite or subopposite, coriaceous, oblong- 
elliptic to oblong-ovate, olivaceous and slightly shining when 
dry,, 7 to 12 cm long, 2.5 to 5 cm wide, obtuse, base narrowed, 
