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three, short, umbellately arranged branches at its apex, the 
branches bearing the umbellately arranged flowers, the pedicels 
about 2 mm long. Fruit purple, ovoid or subglobose, about 6 mm 
in diameter. 
Luzon, Province of Cagayan, Abulug, near the beach on sand-dunes. 
For. Bur, 17105 Curran, February, 1909, For. Bur. 13055 Wood (type), 
January, 1912. \ ^f /t 
A species well distinguished by its elliptic, thickly coriaceous leaves, 
which have their margins distinctly recurved. 
EXCLUDED SPECIES 
Memecylon manillanum Naud. in Ann. Sci. Nat. Ill 18 (1852) 276: Miq 
Fl. Ind. Bat. 1* (1855) 516; Walp. Ann. 4 (1857) 803. 
The type of this species was Cuming 2322, from Malacca, not from the 
Philippines. It is a synonym of M, caeruleum Jack. M, diversifolium Presl 
discussed above, is probably also referable here. 
The foUowing species were erroneously credited to the Philippines by 
F.-Villar.^ The known range for each is given, but none of them are 
definitely known to occur in the Philippines. 
Memecylon costatum Miq. Malay Peninsula, Java, Sumatra, Borneo. 
Memecylon elegans Kurz. Andaman Islands. 
Memecylon amplexicaule Roxb. Malay Peninsula, Penang. 
Memecylon macrophyllum Thwaites. Ceylon. 
Memecylon acuminatum Smith. Malay Peninsula. 
Memecylon grande Retz. Ceylon and India; extending to the Malay Penin- 
sula, as interpreted by Cogniaux. 
Memecylon laevigatum Blume. Burma, Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Java, 
Sumatra, etc. 
Memecylon caeruleum Jack. Tenasserim, Malay Peninsula. 
Memecylon terminale Dalz. India. 
B. New Species of Medinilla 
The genus Medinilla in the Philippines is remarkably developed 
in the number of species, and presents a very interesting group 
in the diversity of its forms, and in their geographic distri- 
bution. In the year 1905 I published an enumeration of the 
known Philippine species,^^ with a key to facilitate their deter- 
mination. This treatment, however, is now entirely obsolete, 
for at that time but twenty-one species were known from the 
Archipelago, about one-half of which were proposed as new in 
the paper above mentioned. 
As the botanical exploration of the Philippines has pro- 
gressed, an enormous number of previously undescribed species 
have been discovered in most of the larger families of plants 
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Novis. App. (1880) 189, 190. 
Govt. Lab. Publ. (Philip.) 29 (1905) 33-38. 
