Tas. 6681. 
MEDINILLA -AMABILIS. 
Native of Java. 
Nat. Ord. MgtastomMacEz.—Tribe MEDINILLEZ. 
Genus Mepininia, Gaud.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 759.) 
MepinitLa amabilis; glaberrima, ramulis 4-gonis angulis crispato-alatis, foliis 
amplis oppositis sessilibus late obovato- v. elliptico-oblongis acutis quintupli- 
nerviis marginibus undulatis basi obtusis v. cordatis, nervis crassis, paniculis 
maximis terminalibus erectis pyramidatis crasse pedunculatis ramosis multifloris, 
pedunculo rachi ramisque (primariis verticillatis) crassis teretibus ultimis roseis, 
bracteis 0, floribus crasse pedicellatis amplis roseis, calycis tubo hemispherico 
limbo annulari truncato integerrimo v. obscure sinuato, petalis obovato-oblongis, 
staminibus 10 antheris pallide violaceis. 
M. amabilis, Dyer in Gard. Chron. 1874, parti. p. 372, fig. 81; Bull Retail 
List of New, §e., Plants, 1874, p. 13. 
Though differing in habit, this is quite as striking a 
plant as the M. magnifica (Plate 4533), which it excels in 
the size of the flowers, but falls far short of in wanting the 
beautiful coloured bracts of that species. It is much more 
nearly allied to M. speciosa, Blume (Bot. Mag. Plate 4321), 
which differs in the long internodes with smooth margins, 
_and in the pendulous panicle of smaller flowers; and to 
M. javanensis, Plate 4569, also a small-flowered species 
with four-angled internodes and truncate petals. Our 
specimen formed an erect shrub, but so many species are 
scandent that this may be so in a fully developed condition. 
When published by Mr. Dyer the native country of this 
species was unknown, and as it could not be matched with 
any described species, it might well have been supposed to 
have come from some of the little explored islands to the 
eastward of the Malayan groups. Now that we are in- 
formed by Mr. Bull that it is a native of Java, 1t cannot 
but surprise us that so striking a plant should inhabit an 
island so well known botanically, and have remained un- 
APRIL Ist, 1883. 
