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the midrib shortly above the base, the additional outer pair, 
when present, not reaching to the apex of the leaf, the transverse 
reticulations usually visible in dried specimens. Panicles ter- 
minal, usually about 20 cm long, diffuse, the branches verticil- 
lately arranged, in whorls of 4 or more, often nearly 10 cm in 
length, the secondary branches also verticillate, the bracts and 
bracteoles setaceous, small, deciduous. Flowers pink, 4-merous. 
Calyx urceolate-campanulate, truncate, 3 to 4 mm long. Petals 
obliquely obovate, about 9 mm long, 7 mm wide. Stamens 
subequal; filaments 4 mm long; anthers narrowly lanceolate, 
somewhat curved, 5 mm long, the posterior spur 0.7 mm long, 
the anterior auricles about 1 mm long. Fruit ovoid, fleshy, 
purple, about 6 mm in diameter. 
Luzon, Province of Bataan, Mount Mariveles, on exposed ridges, alti- 
tude 900 to 1,000 m, Merrill 3965, Elmer s. n., Williams 6U8, Whitford 
125, Lyon s. n. (type), Bur. Sci. 6209 Robinson, Bur. Sci, 1663 Foxworthy, 
For. Bur. 2j^05 Meyer. 
A species previously identified with Medinilla intermedia Blume, but 
apparently sufficiently distinct from that form, recognized at once by its 
nodes being glabrous, not setose, differing also in several other characters, 
so far as can be determined from a comparison with the description of 
Blume's species. It is manifestly allied to Medinilla myriantha Merr., 
and M. subsessilis Merr., but both of these species have setose nodes. 
B. Plants more or less Pubescent, Setose, Stellate- 
tomentose, or at least furfuraceous, not entirely 
Glabrous (species 20-28) 
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20. MEDINILLA PARVA sp. nov. 
Suffrutex erectus vix 40 cm altus, foliis junioribus ramulis 
inflorescentiisque plus minusve stellato-furfuraceis, ramulis 
teretibus; foliis oppositis, petiolatis, oblongo-ovatis, usque ad 10 
cm longis, acuminatis, basi acutis, 5-plinerviis ; cymis terminal- 
ibus, erectis, brevibus, paucifloris, bracteis elliptico-oblongis, 
usque ad 18 mm longis; floribus 5-meris. 
An undershrub 40 cm high or less, the branches few, terete, 
glabrous, the branchlets slender, densely covered with brown, 
stellate-furfuraceous indumentum. Leaves opposite, oblong- 
ovate, subcoriaceous, 5 to 10 cm long, 2 to 4 cm wide, rather 
slenderly acuminate, base acute, the upper surface glabrous or 
nearly so, the lower surface brown-stellate-furfuraceous on the 
nerves; nerves usually two pairs, the inner pair leaving the 
midrib 8 to 10 mm above the base, prominent, reaching the apex, 
the outer pair much more slender, reaching the middle of the 
leaf, or extending beyond the middle as very faint submarginal 
nerves, the reticulations obsolete; petioles densely stellate- 
