288 MKRKILL. 
Medinilla microphylla Merrill n. sp. 
Frutcx scandcns; ramis raiinilis potiolis bractois calycibus foliisqTie 
praecipuc ad norvos stellato-toiiiontosis; ramis teretibus; foliis oppositis, 
oblon<,^o-ovatisj 5-nervis, 2 ad 4.5 cm. longis; eyiiiis tenninalibus, pauci- 
floribus, bracteis roseis persistent ibu^; floribiis -1-mcris. 
Scandent along tree tmnks, tlie stems and brandies terete, slender, tlie 
younger parts densely stellate-plumose-toniontose. Leaves submembran- 
ons, oblong-ovate, 2 to 4.5 cm. long, 1 to 2 cm. wide, nearly glabrous above, 
beneatli densely stenato-phimose-tomentose on tbe nerves, base acute, apex 
short-acuminate; nen^es 5; petioles 0.5 mm. long, or less. Inflorescence 
terminal, ' usually reduced to a single flower subtended by about G pink 
l)racts. Bracts narrowly elliptical-ovate, base and apex acute, 3-nerved, 
stellate-pubescent, 1.8 cm. long, 1 cm. wide. Fruit subglobose, somewhat 
stellute-pubescent, nearly 1 cm. long, the calyx persistent, G mm. long, the 
tube 2 mm., the lobes ovate, acute, 4 mm. long. 
In forests at 900 ni. nit. {No. 5500). 
Medinilla sp. 
In forests at 1,S00 m. a!t. (No. SfifiT), spocimens in frnit only. 
Medinilla sp. 
In forests at 900 ni. alt. (No. 4308 Merritt) June, 190G, material in poor 
conrlition. 
Medinilla sp. 
In forests at 1,300 m. alt. {No, 4382 Merritt) June, 1906. The last three 
species enumerated are all distinct from each other and different from any of 
the species represented at present in our herhariimi, Init the specimens are incom- 
plete and are accordingly not described here. 
ASTRONIA Blume. 
Astronia meyeri Merr. in Govt. Lab. Puhl. 35 (1900) 51. 
In forests at 550 m. alt. (No. 4347 Merritt) June, 1900. 
Previously known from Mount Mariveles, Luzon. 
MEMECYLON Linn. 
Memecylon preslianum Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. 28 (1871) 157. 
In forests at 100 m. alt, (No. 5G04). 
Widely distributed in the Philippines. Endemic. 
. nALORRHAGACE.E. 
HALORRHAGIS Forst. 
Halorrhagis halconensis Merrill n. sp. 
Planta robusta suffriiticosa ereeta ad GO cm. alta; foliis oppositis 
vel ad ramo>> juniores verticillatis, elliptieo-ovatis, ad 3 cm. longis, 
1 ad 1.5 cm. latis; inflorescentiae ad apices caulis dense racemoso-pani- 
