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4 5 mm Ion-, 6 opposite the sepals with filaments 3.5 mm long; anthers ' 
7 mm long. Ovary inferior, 1-celled; ovules 12 on a central placenta, 
pendulous from the inner upper angle; style slender, 7 mm long; 
sti-ma small, disciform. Fruit unknown, hut the calyx accrescent, in tlie 
immature specimens 1.7 cm long, when mature prohably much longer. 
MINDANAO, District of Zamboauga, Port Banga, For. liur. OIU WkUfonl S 
nntchinson, December i), 1907, in the dipteroearp forest at an altitude of al..n,t 
20 m above the sea. \ ■, c i • i, 
A curious genus well characterized by iU strongly sagittate petals, from wluch 
the generic name is taken, these being long-chnved and irregularly lacerate-fiui- 
briare, its 0-merous flowers, 12 stamens, of which the opposite the petals are 
longer tluui the fi opposite the sepals, and its 1-celled ovary with 12 pendulous 
ovides. 11 is apparcnlly closely allied to CaraUia hut seems to he genencally 
distinct. 
:^[ELASTo:^rATACE.E. 
MEMECYLON Linn. 
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Memecylon densiflorum sp. nor. 
Eanmlis acute tetragoni?, non alatis; foliis ovato-oblongis, coriacei?, 
nitidis, 4 ad 5.5 cm longis, l-nerviis, nervulis transversalibiis obsoletis, 
apice breviter obscure acuuiinatis, acuminibus obtusis, basi cuneatis; 
cyniis axillaribus, subsessilibus vel breviter pedunculatis, fasciculatis, 
subcapitatis, densis, ca. 1.3 cm diam. 
Erect, glabrous, the branches brown or grayisb, slender, terete, the 
branchlets 4-anglcd. Leaves coriaceous, shining, ovate-oblong, 4 to 5.5 
cm long, 1.5 to 2.5 cm wide, base acute, apex shortly obscurely acuminate, 
tlie acumen blunt, sometimes subobtuse; midrib prominent, the lateral 
nerves obsolete; petioles slender, 5 mm long or less. Cymes axillary, 
fasciculate, subsessile or witb peduncles 2 to 3 mm long densely mauy- 
fiowered, forming subcapitate beads about 1.3 cm in diameter, the 
pedicels ebracteolate, about 2 mm long. Calyx funnel-shaped, 1.8 mm 
long and wide, truncate. Petals ovate, acuminate, about 2 mm long, 
1.2 mm wide. Filaments 3 mm long; anthers 1.2 mm long. 
^^Ttxdanao, Province of Surij,mo, Bolster 36S, October, 1900; Ahem r>ir,, 
Fubruary-May, 1901, V., Bahagion. 
A species allied to MouceyJon cuminyiamim Presl, but readily distinguished 
by its dense capitate inflorescence; apparently also allied to .V. paucifiorum 
Bhime. 
MEDINILLA Blunie. 
Medinilla philippensis (Cham. & Sclilecht.) comb. nov. 
Axanthes philippensis Cham. & Schlecht. in Linnaea 4 (1820) 193. 
Lizox, without locality given, but from Cavite Province l>etween the town of 
Cuvite and Taal Lake, Chai>,isso, in Herb. Berol. (type): Province of Oavite, 
Alendez Nunez, liitr, Hci. IS'fl Manyubai, August, 1900. 
This interesting spoeies was based on very fragmentary material, the type, 
which I have examined in the Berlin TTerbarinm, consisting of a single detached 
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