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minalibus, paniculatis, ut videtur paucifloris, quam folia bre- 
vioribus; fructibus 5- rariter 6-locellatis. 
An erect glabrous shrub, the branches and branchlets slender, 
terete, light gray, the ultimate ones 2 mm in diameter or less. 
Leaves opposite, oblong-ovate, narrowed at both ends, base acute, 
apex rather prominently acuminate, 7 to 12 cm long, 2.5 to 5 
cm wide, brown and of about the same color on both surfaces 
when dry, somewhat shining; nerves 5, distinct, the two lateral 
pairs leaving the midrib above the base, as prominent as the 
midrib, reaching the apex, the lower pair opposite, the inner or 
upper pair subalternate, reticulations obsolete; petioles slender, 1 
to 1.5 cm long. Inflorescence terminal, paniculate, shorter than 
the leaves, apparently few-flowered. Flowers unknown. Pani- 
cles in fruit about 6 cm long, the branches opposite or ternate, 
about 1 cm long. Fruit red, cup-shaped, about 6 mm long, trun- 
cate, with 5, rarely 6 very minute teeth, 5- rarely 6-celled. 
MiNDORO, Mount Halcon, Merrill 5667, in forests, altitude about 1,800 m, 
November 18, 1906. 
Apparently closely allied to Medinilla culelanensis Elm., but differing in 
its leaves, venation, and infructescence, and in its glabrous, not setose 
nodes. 
FLOWERS 4-MEROUS (SPECIES 15-19) 
15. MEDINILLA CANLAONENSIS sp. nov. 
Frutex glaber, erectus, circiter 3 m altus, ramulis teretibus, 
nodis glabris vel leviter setosis; foliis petiolatis, oppositis, coria- 
ceis, oblongo-ellipticis, utrinque angustatis, basi acutis, 5- vel 
7-plinerviis, apice acuminatis, usque ad 18 cm longis; inflores- 
centiis terminalibus, paniculatis, 14 ad 18 cm longis; floribus 
4-meris. 
A glabrous erect shrub about 3 m high, the branches and 
branchlets terete, the ultimate ones 3 to 4 mm in diameter, nodes 
glabrous or slightly setose. Leaves oblong-elliptic, 12 to 18 cm 
long, 5 to 6.5 cm wide, coriaceous, of about the same color on 
both surfaces when dry, dull or slightly shining, subequally 
narrowed at both ends, base acute, apex shortly and sharply 
acuminate; nerves 5 or 7, leaving the midrib above the base, 
the inner two pairs as prominent as the upper part of the 
midrib, reaching the apex of the leaf, the third pair, when 
present, more slender and scarcely reaching the middle of the 
leaf, the inner pair leaving the midrib 1.5 to 2 cm above the base, 
reticulations obsolete; petioles about 5 mm long. Panicles 
terminal, about as long as the leaves, peduncled, the branches 
whorled, the lower ones 5 cm long, verticils distant. Flowers 
pink, 4-merous, their pedicels about 5 mm long, the bracts and 
