NEW Oli KOTEWOKTTIY rJlILirPlNE PLAXTSj VI. 251 
5 to 7 mm thick, densely covered with pedicel- and bract-scars, setose; 
pedicels about 5 mm long, the bracteoles numerous, exceeding the flowers, 
about 18 mm long, spatulate, the limb elliptical-ovate, obtuse, 6 mm 
long, 5 mm wide. Calyx 4 mm in diameter, truncate. Petals 5, in- 
eqnilaterally obovatc, apex oblique-subtruncate, retuse-apiculate, 7 to 
8 mm long, 5 mm wide. Stamens 10, subequal; filaments and anthers 4 
mm long. Fruit ovoid, black, glabrous, about 1 cm in diameter, crowned 
by the persistent calyx. 
Negbos, Cadiz Nuevo, For. Bur. 4223 Everett, February, 1906. Mindanao, 
Province of Surigao, Bolster 290, April, lOOG. 
A species quite different from any in the genus, characterized hy its coiigt'sted, 
cylindrical inflorescence. According to Everett tlie inflorescence is red and the 
flowers have an ofi*ensive odor when fresh. 
Med in ilia congesta sp. nov. 
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Ramis teretibus, glabris; ramulis, foliis subtus, paniculisque plus 
minus dense setosis; foliis oppositis 3-nerviis, oldongo-ellipticis, acutis 
vel brevitcr acuminatis, coriaceis, ca. 12 cm longis, sessilibus; inflores- 
centiis ca. 18 cm longis, longe pednnculatis, pedunculis gracilibus, den- 
sissime setosis; floribus 1-meris, congestis, valde bracteatis, pmpe ad apices 
ramulorum umbellatis. 
A shrup, the branches light-gray, terete, glabrous, the branchlcts 
slightly setose, the nodes very densely setose with subulate chaffy scales 
1 cm long or less. Leaves opposite, coriaceous, pale, shining, oblong- 
elliptical, 10 to 14 cm long, 4 to ^-^.ry cm wide, margins somewhat revolute, 
sessile or subsessile, the base somewhat clasping, strongly 3-nerved, rarely 
with a supplementary pair of faint marginal nerves, the apex acute or 
short-acuminate, glabrous above, beneath witli numerous long setose hairs, 
especially on the nerves. Inflorescence axillary (?), the peduncle very 
densely setose, about 12 cm long, slender, the flowers crowded at the 
apex, forming an oblong, rather dense head, 6 cm long and 3 cm thick, 
its branches about 1 cm long, densely setose, each bearing at its apex two 
or three, ohovoid, slightly setose bracts about 12 ]nm long, and 5 to 7 
short-pedicelled flowers, each flower subtended by three narrowly obo- 
void 1 cm long bracteoles, the pedicels densely setose, about 3 mm long. 
Calyx urceolate, the tube ovoid, 2 mm long, the limb produced, 2 mm 
long, somewhat spreading, truncate, with 4 nerves corresponding to teeth. 
Totals 4, about 10 mm long, 5.5 mm wide, narrowly inequilatcrally obo- 
void, apex obtuse, oblique. Stamens 4; anthers 5 mm long. 
MiNDOKO, Mount Sablayan, For. Bur. 9160 Mcrritt, March, 1908, in forests 
on exposed ridges at 1,000 m alt. 
A species well characterized by its long-pedunculate, dense iiin..rescence which 
is densely setose, 4-merous, 3-bracteolate flowers, and sessile, strongly 3-nerved, 
opposite leaves. 
