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24. MEDINILLA VENOSA (Blume) Blume in Flora 14 (1831) 518* Miq 
Fl. Ind. Bat. 1^ (1856) 549; Triana in Trans Linn. Soc. 28 (1873)' 
88 U 7, fig, 9^ e; Cogn. in DC. Monog. Phan. 7 (1891) 600. 
Melastoma venosum Blume Bijdr. (1826) 1075. 
Hypenajithe venosa Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. 1 (1849) 21. 
This species was first credited to the Philippines by Triana on specimens 
collected m Luzon by Cuming and by Lobb. Doctor C. B. Robinson, who 
has recently examined the material representing this species in the Paris 
Herbarium, the Rijks Herbarium, Leiden, and in the Kew Herbarium, 
considers the Luzon specimens to be correctly named, namely Cunimg 802, 
from Mount Banajao, Lobb s. n,, not definitely localized, and Vidal 1388 
from Mount Maquiling, Province of Laguna, Luzon. Doctor Robinson has 
kmdly supplied me with carbon leaf-rubbings of the three Philippine speci- 
mens cited above, and also from specimens in the Leiden Herbarium, Celebes, 
CO ected by Forsten, and a specimen in the Paris Herbarium from Ternate 
collected by Hombron. They all appear to represent a single species, and 
all are cited by Cogniaux under Blume's species. There is in the Herbarium 
of the Bureau of Science a single specimen that is referable here, Tamesis 
s. n., from Mount Maquiling, Province of Laguna, Luzon, July, 1910. 
But for the fact that the original diagnosis of Axantkes philippensis 
C. & S,~Medinilla philippensis Merr. describes the fruit of that species 
as 5-celled, I should, with little hesitation, reduce that species to Medinilla 
venosa Blume, for the vegetative characters of the two are very similar. 
Medinilla lagunae Vid., is also closely allied, but differs in its leaf-base 
and other characters. Medinilla halconensis Merr., is distinguished by its 
5-merous fiowers, and is more closely allied to M. philippensis Merr., than 
to M. venosa BL 
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25. MEDINILLA TRUNCIFLORA nom. nov. 
Medinilla cauliflora Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 5 (1910) Bot 207 
non Hemsl. (1895). ' 
The above new name is necessary on account of Hemsley's use of the 
name Medinilla cauliflora in 1895, which was overlooked by me. In addi- 
tion to the type, I have also before me one additional specimen, also from 
JNegros, Canlaon Volcano, Merrill 6983, April, 1910, in forests, altitude 
about 800 m, a single plant observed. 
26. MEDINILLA MULTINERVIA sp. nov. 
Prutex scandens, subtus foliis ad nervos minute brunneo- 
furfuraceis exceptis glaber; ramis crassis, teretibus, junioribus 
4-angulatis, 4-alatis, aliis crispulis; foliis oppositis, petiolatis, 
late ovatis vel late elliptico-ovatis, usque ad 20 cm longis, basi 
rotundatis, 13-plinerviis, nervulis transversalibus subparallelis, 
prominentibus ; inflorescentiis lateralibus, brevibus, paucifloris; 
flonbus 6-meris. 
A scandent shrub, glabrous except the lower surfaces of the 
.eaves which are minutely brown-furfuraceous especially on the 
nerves. Branches rather stout, terete or subterete, about 8 mm 
