238 '^he Philippine Journal of Science wis 
INFLORESCENCE TERMINAL (SPECIES 13-19) 
FLOWERS 5-MEROUS (SPECIES 13, 14) 
13. MEDINILLA COM PRESSICAULIS sp. nov. 
Frutex epiphyticus glaber, circiter 3 m altus, ramis ramulisque 
crassis, compressis, 4-alatis; foliis oppositis, sessilibus, anguste 
ovatis vel late oblongo-ovatis, coriaceis, acutis, basi rotun- 
datis, 5-plinerviis ; inflorescentiis terminalibus, paniculatis, pe- 
dunculatis, usque ad 25 cm longis, multifloris, bracteis ovatis, 
vix 1 cm longis ; floribus 5-meris. 
An epiphytic glabrous shrub about 3 m high, the nodes setose 
with short densely disposed processes, the branches gray, stout, 
very strongly compressed, 4-winged, the branchlets also stout, 
compressed, about 1 cm wide, their wings more prominent, about 
3 mm wide. Leaves opposite, sessile, narrowly ovate to broadly 
oblong-ovate, coriaceous, base rounded, apex acute, 20 to 25 
cm long, 8 to 12 cm wide, 5-plinerved, the midrib and nerves 
prominent, the inner pair of nerves reaching the apex, the outer 
pair extending to the middle, or beyond as very faint submar- 
ginal nerves, sometimes a faint additional outer pair of nerves 
being present, reticulations lax, not prominent, sometimes 
obsolete. Inflorescence terminal, paniculate, all parts red, the 
peduncles 6 to 12 cm long, the flower-bearing portion about as 
long, branches whorled, the bracts ovate, 1 cm long or less, 
deciduous. Flowers red, 5-merous, their pedicels about 4 mm 
long. Calyx cup-shaped, about 4.5 mm long and wide, truncate. 
Petals 5, obliquely obovate, about 9 mm long. Stamens 10, equal, 
their filaments slender, 4 mm long; anthers 2.2 mm long, dorsal 
spur of the connective very short. Fruit subglobose, fleshy, 
purple when mature, 7 to 8 mm in diameter. 
Luzon, Benguet Subprovince, about 35 kilometers north of Baguio, 
Merrill 7687, May, 1907 (type), altitude about 1,800 m, growing on trees 
in ravines: Lepanto Subprovince, trail to Balbalasan, For. Bur. 5739 
Klemme, November 19, 1906, altitude 1,500 m. 
A very characteristic species, distinguishable from the others in the 
genus by its very prominently compressed and 4-winged branches, its ses- 
sile, 5-plinerved, ample, opposite leaves, and its red, not pink, inflores- 
cence and flowers, the latter 5-merous. 
14. MEDINILLA ACUMINATA sp. nov. 
Frutex erectus glaber, ramulis teretibus, nodis vix setosis; 
foliis oppositis, oblongo-ovatis, utrinque angustatis, petiolatis, 
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usque ad 12 cm longis, acuminatis, basi 5-plinerviis, nervis 
interioribus subaltemis, reticulis obsoletis; inflorescentiis ter- 
