10617. Leranthusa merrilli Zlms, Be 8p. Sid) 
herisontally spreading clusters seattered on all the 
branches of an Burye collected in dense forests at 6000 
feet of mount Colelan; twigs green, much flattened, the 
014 stems terete and gray; ¢oriacecus Gull green leaves 
on slightly reourved; flower stalks calyx and ovary 
dark or clive green, horisenteliy spreading; buds red 
with a yellowish bend beneath the blunt apex strictly 
eveot:; corella bright red, the segments strongly reflexed, 
3/4 ineh long, odorless, coming inte flower from base | 
to apex: the buds are very pretty and resemble lightet 
gandles; anthers brownish with yellow pollen; style 
reddish bearing & brownish stigma; “Manego.” young fruits 
elliptieh derk green except the dull red calyx vestiges; 
Todaya, May, 1909. 
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Golelan: leaves toward the top whers the stem is $ 
inches thick, the looping stem otherwise green and smooth 
1/2 ineh thiek only: leaves § feet long cracefully sscend~ 
ingly recurved; rebhis flnttencd towerd the bese other~ 
wise S-ridged, 1/2 inoh wide at the bese, green on the 
upper side, srayich beneath, spines yellowish; more 
styongly spinesgent on the upper side (some 1 inch long 
ani nesdle-like), extended inte a foot long recurved 
and hooked tip: lesflets exten@ing within 6 inches 
frem the bese of the rachis, little redueed et the ends, 
slightly recurved and rigid shiny, rich arecn above, 
yellowish or glaueous white benesth; wshenths densely 
Covered with 1 to 1 1/2 inch very sherp 
but mot rigid spines; inflorescence sxillery, ascending 
1 toffeet long, flattened 1 to & feet iong 
spinescent peduncle; pistilieate flowers shiny, strew white; 
fruits egrecn, the scale tips darker green, semewhet cbovold 
in ghepe; “sembonoten,." fodeye, May, 190%. 
10619,  ‘richespeorum cardinsle Copel, %traggling 
epiphytes uoon a@mall tree@ ané shrubs @ te 10 feet trom 
the ground of foreste? ridges at 6000 feet of Coleian 
mountain; branches lax, descending, breaking with a 
snap, dite annerous and forming Leese bushes; dieeves 
gorieceous, dull green above, yellowish so beneath, 
fiat, tipa slightly reourvecd; podicdle end calyx ereen- 
ish, erect or suberect; c¢orolle curvingly erect, rather 
seft in texture, the lower and leteral tips reeurved 
or reflexed, apcttedly streaked with dark red, otherwise 
cardinal red on the exterior at leant; filements pale - 
ved; style reddish; the filet stigma grecnish; “dolele"+ 
flowers giving & aplendiad appearance! Yodaya, Mag, L909. 

