BOTANICAL NOTES. 217 
Medinilla nodiflora sp. nov. 
Suffrutex, scandens: cymis in caiilibus sub foliis fasciculatis, brevi- 
bus; floribus pentameris: foliis oppositis, laminis chartaceis, ellipticis 
vel elliptico-lanceolatis, basi rottindatis vel cordatulis, apice brcvitor 
inerviis 
Cymes fascicled on tubercles on the stem below the leaves, 3 to 4 
cm long, the flowers in whorls of 3 to 6 at the ends of tlieir brandies, 
on pedicels 5 to 8 mm long; fruiting calyx waxy-white, urceolate, 10 
mm long, 8 mm in diameter, free from the ovar}^ for about 2 mm, the 
rim fleshy at the base, annulate within, the nearly truncate apex ob- 
scurely showing 5 minute teeth; ovary 5-celled; seeds very numerous, 
less than 1 mm long, the testa homy. 
Woody, climbing on trees and often rooting, the stems cylindrical, 
about 1 cm in diameter, glabrous, with gray or dark-gray bark : leaves 
opposite, the petioles 2.5 to 5 cm long, the lamina chartax^eous, elliptic 
or elliptic-lanceolate, 13 to 20 cm long, 4.5 to 9 cm wide, the base 
rounded or very shallowly cordate, the apical acumen acute or subacute, 
8 to 15 mm long, 7-plinerv.ed, the lowest pair basal or subbasal, extend- 
ing about two-thirds the length of the leaf, sometimes obscure, the next 
pair arising 5 mm or less from the base or often adnate to the midvem 
and basal or subbasal, extending into the acumen, the apical pair about 
3.5 em above the base, reuniting with the midrib near the base of the 
acumen, upper surface green, glabrous, under surface tending to become 
purplish-brown in drying, its veins, the petioles and pedicels mmutely 
brown-furfuraceous, transverse veinlets much more distinct on ui)per 
surface. 
PoLiLLO, Bur, 8ci. 10263 McGregor. Luzon, Province of Laguna, San Antonio, 
Papatnhan, Bur. ScL 12005 Ramos (type). Allied to M. currami Merr.; strongly 
resembling it in its fruit, but liaving merely opposite leaves, 7-phnerved. 
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Medinilla polillensis sp. nov. 
Scandens: floribus saepis-sime in tiiadibns rarius iu triadibus bivoi- 
ticillatis caulinis dispositis, tctramcris : foliis cliartaceis, lanceolatis, gla- 
bris, basi obscTire et brcvissirae auriculatis, apice acuniinatis, 5-plinervus. 
Inflorescences cauline, the flowers more often 3, disposed umbellateLy, 
• or in two whorls each of 3, the peduncle 1.5 to 2.5 cm long, thc_ pedicels 
articulated, below the articulation 2.5 to 5 mm long, from articnlatinn 
to the base of the ovarj^ 1 to 1.4 cm long: fruiting calyx urcoolate 8 
mm long, annulate within, the rim about 1.5 mm long, formmg 4 rounded 
lobes; ovary thin-walled, 4-cellcd, ovules very numerous. 
Plant entirelv glabrous, seandent on - tree-trunks, and rooting at the 
nodes, the Ftems and branches strongly quadrangular and usually with 
