NEW OR NOTEWORTHY i'lIIi.ilTlNB PLANTS, VI. 249 
leaf auJ a single detached fruit. It is exactly matched by the specimen colleeted 
by Mangubat, cited above, wliicli came from the same general region as the 
original. Unfortunately the specimens collected by Mangubat are poorly prepared, 
but I am able to add the following to the original imperfect description: 
Branches terete, light-gray, densely tonientose. Loa\-es 8 to 12 em 
long, 4 to 8 cm ^vide, the nerves 3 or 4 on each side of tlie midri)), 
eurved-ascending. Cymes lateral, 4 cm long or less, few-flowered, 
densely tonientose; bracts narrowly obovate, about 1 cm long. Calyx 
obscurely 44oothed, the teeth sliort, broad. Petals 4, about 9 mm long. 
Stamens 8, subequal; antliers 5 mm long. 
The species is most closely allied to Medinilla lagunac Vidal but has quite 
differently shaped leaves. It differs from \f. halconensis Men:, in ith -l-merous 
flowers and more numerously nerved leaves, which are pubescent beneath only, 
while in -1/. kalconemis they are pubescent on buth surfaces. 
Medinilla cogniauxil sp. nov. 
Medinilla hracUata Cogn. in DC. ifonog. Than. 8 (1891) 601, in part {Cvminfj 
13S5, i-'/87; Vidal). 
Differt M. hracteatae Blumo foliis longioribus, inflorescentiis termina- 
libus, racomosis, multo longioribus, usque ad 20 cm longis, simplicibus. 
A scandent or decumbent shrub 2 to G m high, the branches terete, 
slender, shining, glabrous, the branehlets densely steHate-plumose-to- 
mentose. Leaves membranaceous, ellipticaldanceolate, acuminate, base 
narrowed, abruptly rounded and narmwly cordate, 7 to 12 cui long,.? to 5 
cm wide, glabrous above when nurture, more or less stellate-tomentose 
on the ner\es when young, beneath densely stellate-plumose-tomentose 
on the nerves and with scattered hairs on the lamina; nerves prominent 
beneath, two on each side of the midrib, the outer' pair subbaj^al 
and extending to the middle of the loaf or above, the inner pair leaving 
the midrib some distance above the ba^^e and extending to the apex, rarely 
a tliird pair of shoi:t ba^al nerves present; petioles dens*.^ly tomentose, 
1 to 3 nmi long. Eacemes from the terminal axils only, 7 to 20 cm 
long, pendulous, slender, densely stellate-tomentose, the flowers usually 
arranged in whorls of threes, each node with three uiembranaceous, ovate, 
5 to 8 nun long, o-nerved, persistent bracts, which are somewhat stellate- 
tomentose; pedicels about 4 mm long. Cah^x 4 to 5 mm long, truncate, 
ovoid, densely hirsute, the stiff hairs ciliate. retals 5, narrowly obovate, 
obtuse, about 9 mm long, 4.5 mm wide. Stamens 10, subequal; anthers 
3 mm' long. Style 8 mm long. Eadi flower subtended by two per- 
sistent bractcoles, which are orbicular-ovate, obtuse, T-nerved, mem- 
branaceous, about 12 mm long, somewhat tomentose. Fruit subglobose, 
setose, about 5 mm in diamet^^r, enclosed by the persist<^nt bracteoles. 
Luzon, Province of Batangas, Cianutg i)H1, in Herb. Bur. Sci. Mixdoro, 
Baco River, Merrill J,fm, March, 1905; McGregor IS3, 200, April, 1005. 
A very eharacteristic species, confused by Cogniaux with Medinilla hravtvaUi 
Bhune, winch is a quite iliirerent species. In January of the present yenr 1 
