NEW PHILIPPrNE Pr^VNTS. 153 
in whorls of threo^ the bracts and bracteoles subulate, 1.5 to 3 mm long, 
the pedicels about 3 mm long. Calyx ovoid, about 5 mm in diameter, 
rugose "wlicn dry, the limb . slightly produced, obscurely 4-toothed, 
glabrnn?;. Petals 4, broadly irregularly obovate, 4 to 4,5 mm long, 3 to 
3.5 mm wide, obtuse, glabrous. Stamens 8, subequal; fdameuts 2.5 mm 
long; anthers 3 mm long. 
Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley, ^fr$. Clemens 51^, 885, April, 1006, 
January, 1907. 
A species apparently allied to Medinilla corallina Cogn., of Borneo {ex descr. ), 
well characterized by its ferruginous-stellate-plnniose pubescence, the leaves 
reddish-brown beneath and pale above, and its slender panicles. 
MELASTOMA Burm. 
Melastoma lanaense Merrill sp. nov. 
Frutex eroctus, ramis ranudis petiolisque plus minus dense fcrrugineo- 
hirsutis et squamulis parvis, ovatis vel lanceolatis, acuminatis, plus minus 
ciliatis, obtectis; foliis elliptico-ovatis vel late ellipticis, acuminatis, 5- 
nerviis, subcoriaceis, snbtus plus minus hirsntis, et paleis numerosis lan- 
ceolatis, patulis, acuminatis, praesertim ad ncrvos obsitis; calycis lubis 
tubum aequantibus, dentibus subulatis, penicillatis, 2.5 mm longis alter- 
nantibus, palcolis lanceolatis, penicillato-acuminatis, plus minus denti- 
culatis vel pauce fimbriatis, 2 mm longis, subpatuli^, non fasciculatis, 
dense obtectis; floribus 5-meris, ca. 3 cm longis. 
An erect shrub, the branches, branchlets and petioles rather densely 
ferruginous-hirsute and with numerous ovate or lanceolate, acuminate, 
somewhat ciliate, more or less spreading or appressed scales. Leaves 
elliptical-ovate to broadly elliptical, subcoriaceous, 8 to 17 cm long, 3 
to 8.5 cm wide, ai3ex acuminate, base acute, dull, above with numerous 
more or less appressed subulate scales, beneath more or less hirsute, 
and with scattered, ovate, more or less ciliate, usually appressed scales, 
especially on the nerves; nerves 5, prominent, the cross-nervules numer- 
ous, parallel, slightly curved; petioles 1.5 to 3.5 cm long.. Flowers 
5-merous, pink, usually in threes, short-pedicellate or subsessile. Calyx 
tube 1.5 cm long, 8 mm thick, the lobes 5, lanceolate, acuminate, 1.5 cm 
long, 4 mm wide, the alternating teeth linoar-lanceolate, pcnicillate- 
acuminate, 3.5 mm long, 1 mm wide at the base, the margins more or 
less ciliate-lacerate, the tulie and backs of the teeth densely covered with 
closely imbricate, lancet)late, penicillate-acuminate paleae, about 2 mm 
long, 0.7 nun wide, their margins denticulate and often somewhat fim- 
briate, not fasciculate, their upper portions somewhat spreading. Petals 
bovate, 2.5 cm long, 1.8 cm wide, rounded, the apical margins ciliale- 
hispid. Anthers 7 mm long, the appendage to the eonnertive about 1.4 
mm long. Bracts and bracteoles, if any, caducous. 
Mindanao, Lake Luiiao, Camp Keithley, Mr.<t. Clemens s. n., Jxily an<l Septem- 
ber, 1007, and no. 8^Gy November, 190G. 
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