VIII, c, 4 Merrill: Philippine Melastomataceae, I 245 
oblong-obovate, about 10 mm long, glabrous. Stamens 10; 
filaments 5 mm long; anthers stout, oblong-lanceolate, curved, 
acuminate, about 4 mm long, the base truncate, about 1.5 mm 
wide, the posterior appendage very short, the anterior ones 
stout. Fruit subglobose, 6 to 7 mm in diameter, densely pale 
stellate-tomentose, crowned by the toothed calyx-rim. 
Luzon, Province of Cagayan, Abulug River, Weber 1574, January 29, 
1912, in crevices of limestone ledges, about 45 m above sea level. 
A species manifestly very closely allied to Medinilla halconensis Merr., 
differing in its larger, differently shaped leaves which are in equal or 
subequal pairs, not very unequal as in that species, its shorter inflores- 
cence, with red, not white bracts, and other minor characters. 
22. MEDINILLA FURFURACEA sp. nov, 
Frutex scandens, ramulis foliis subtus ad nervos inflorescen- 
tiisque minute brunneo-furfuraceis; ramis teretibus; foliis verti- 
cillatis, oblongo-ovatis, 7- vel 9-plinerviis, basi leviter cordatis, 
apice abrupte apiculato-acuminatis ; inflorescentiis lateralibus, 
10 ad 15 cm longis; floribus 5-meris. 
A scandent shrub, the younger branches and branchlets, 
petioles, lower surface of the leaves on the nerves, and the 
inflorescence rather densely but minutely furfuraceous, the indu- 
mentum dark-brown. Branches terete, grayish, nearly 1 cm in 
diameter, with scattered, very prominent lenticels, the younger 
branchlets brown. Leaves verticillate, 4 or 5 at each node, 
membranaceous to chartaceous, shining, the upper surface gla- 
brous, the lower a little paler when dry, with few scales scattered 
over the surface in addition to the numerous ones on the nerves, 
oblong-ovate, 15 to 20 cm long, 7 to 9 cm wide, the base somewhat 
cordate, the apex abruptly apiculate-acuminate ; nerves 3 or 4 
pairs, leaving the midrib in the lower 3 to 4 cm, prominent, only 
the innermost pair reaching the apex, the transverse nervules 
rather distant, distinct; petioles unequal in length, 3 to 5 cm 
long from the same node. Inflorescence lateral, on the branches 
below the leaves, 10 to 15 cm long, ped uncled, minutely and den- 
sely dark brown-f urf uraceous, the branches whorled, the primary 
ones about 3 cm long, each bearing a number of umbellately 
disposed white flowers, their pedicels about 1.5 cm long. Calyx 
cup-shaped, minutely furfuraceous, 10 mm long, truncate. 
Petals 5, about 2.3 cm long, narrowly oblong-obovate, obtuse, 
minutely furfuraceous externally. Stamens 10, very unequal; 
filaments of the longer stamens 12 mm, of the shorter ones 9 mm; 
longer anthers linear-lanceolate, acuminate, about 1.5 cm long, 
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