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lanceolate, rather pale, of about the same color on both surfaces 
and slightly shining when dry, 7 to 10 cm long, 2 to 3 cm wide, 
base acute, apex rather slenderly acuminate; nerves 3, leaving 
the midrib about 5 mm above the base, extending to the apex, 
distinct, the lateral ones as prominent as the midrib, the reticu- 
lations obsolete; petioles 1 to 1.5 cm long. Inflorescence solitary, 
from the axils of fallen leaves on the branches, pendulous, the 
peduncle slender, up to 15 cm in length, the panicle proper (in 
fruit) lax, 15 cm long, the branches verticillate, spreading, about 
8 at each node, the lower ones about 2 cm long and again 
branched, the verticils distant; bracts linear-lanceolate, about 2 
mm long. Flowers unknown. Fruit ovoid, truncate, 5 to 6 
mm long, apparently 4-celled, the pedicels 1 to 1.5 cm long. 
Luzon, Province of Rizal, Angilog, Loher 6275, March, 1906. 
A very characteristic species, especially disting^uished by its oblong to 
lanceolate, acuminate, petioled, 3-plinerved leaves, and its lateral, very 
long peduncled infructescence. 
12. MEDINILLA MEGACARPA sp. nov. 
Frutex epiphyticus, scandens (?), glaber, ramis ramulisque 
teretibus; foliis oppositis, petiolatis, coriaceis, ovatis ad elliptico- 
ovatis, usque ad 10 cm longis, in siccitate supra viridibus, subtus 
brunneis, apice subrotundatis, basi rotundatis, 5-plinerviis ; inflo- 
rescentiis lateralibus, e axillis defoliatis, ut videtur paucifloris, 
brevibus; fructibus circiter 1.5 cm longis, truncatis, 5-locellatis. 
An epiphytic shrub, probably scandent, glabrous, the branches 
and branchlets terete. Leaves opposite, ovate to elliptic-ovate, 
coriaceous, brittle when dry, 7 to 10 cm long, 4 to 6 cm wide, 
when dry the lower surface dark-brown, the upper surface green, 
slightly shining, apex somewhat rounded, base rounded, 5- 
plinerved, both pairs of lateral nerves reaching the apex of the 
leaf, nearly as prominent as the midrib, the outer pair leaving 
the midrib near the base, the inner pair at from 1 to 1.5 cm 
above the base, the transverse reticulations indistinct; petioles 
2 to 3 cm long. Inflorescence axillary, in the axils of fallen 
leaves, short, few-flowered. Flowers unknown. Fruit solitary, 
the peduncle 1 cm long or less, ovoid or cup-shaped, truncate, 
nearly 1.5 cm long, 5-celIed. 
Luzon, Province of Laguna, San Antonio, Bur. Sci. 10977 Ramos, 
August, 1911, in forests. 
A species well characterized by its large fruits and by its leaves being 
green above and dark-brown beneath when dry; allied to Medinilla coriacea 
Merr., but very different from that species. 
