Tas. 6730. 
MEDINILLA Cortisi. 
Native of Western Sumatra. 
Nat. Ord. Me~astomacez.—Tribe MEDINILLER. 
Genus Mepinitna, Gaud.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 759.) 
Mepiniita Curtisii; glaberrima, caule gracili, ramulis pendulis cylindraceis 
obscure tuberculatis, foliis sessilibus ovatis ovato-oblongisve acuminatis late 
viridibus marginibus costaque rubris, nervis secundariis tenuissimis patentibus, 
cymis terminalibus trichotomis pyramidatis pendulis pedunculatis, pedunculo 
ramis patentibus divaricatis pedicellisque corallinis, bracteis parvis, floribus ad 
apices ramulorum confertis calyce subgloboso albo limbo truncato obscure 
dentato, petalis 5-6 orbiculatis concavis eburneis, filamentis subulatis, antheris 
purpurascentibus. 
M. Cartisii, nod. in Hort. Veitch; Gard. Chron. N. S. vol. xx. p. 621, f. 108. 
The species of Medinilla are numerous, and few have as _ 
yet been introduced into cultivation, though probably all — 
merit a place in our stoves. Upwards of fifty have been ~ 
described, including the three gorgeous species, M. speciosa 
(Plate 4321), M. magnifica (Plate 4533), and M. amabilis 
(Plate 6681), and the more modest M. javanensis (Plate — 
4569) and M. Sieboldiana (Plate 4650). From all these — 
white flowers with purple anthers. : 
WM. Ourtisii is a native of the Western Coast of Sumatra, 
where it was discovered by Mr. Curtis when travelling for | 
_ for figuring, with the request that it might bear the name — 
of its discoverer. | : 3 
-"Dusor. A shrub, branches slender, cylindric, dbscurely 
—warted, branchlets pendulous. Leaves three to three and © 
a half inches long, sessile, oblong or ovate-oblong, acum- 
nate, base rounded or subcordate, three-nerved, thinly 
- coriaceous, bright green witha scarlet midrib and margins, — 
‘secondary nerves very slender. oyt 
pendulous; peduncle two to four inches long; bracts 
minute at the bases of t 
s : ‘DECEMBER Ist, 1883. 
the present plant differs in its” graceful habit, and ivory- _ ae 
Messrs. Veitch, who in March last sent the plant to me : 
Cymes pyramidal, peduncled, a 
he divaricate branches, the lower _ 
