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teoles. Flowers white, 5-merous, rather large. Calyx somewhat 
funnel-shaped or distinctly urceolate, truncate, about 6 mm long. 
Petals obliquely obovate, 18 mm long. Stamens 10, 5 somewhat 
longer than the others, the longer ones with filaments 11 mm long 
and anthers 12 mm long, the shorter with filaments about 10 
mm long and anthers 9 to 10 mm in length ; anthers lanceolate, 
acuminate, somewhat curved, the longer ones with a very minute 
dorsal spur, the shorter ones with dorsal spurs nearly 1 mm 
long. Ovary 5-ceIled. 
Leyte, Dagami, C. A. Wenzel 262, epiphytic in forests, June, 1913. 
A species manifestly allied to Medinilla teysmanni Miq., from which it 
differs in its fewer nerved leaves, 5-plinerved, not 9- to ll-plinerved, and 
its larger flowers. From M. magnifica Lindl. it is at once distinguished 
by its fewer nerved leaves, very much larger flowers, and entire absence 
of bracts. 
MYRSINACEAE 
ARDISIA Swartz 
ARDISIA LEYTENSIS sp. nov. (§ Acrardisia.) 
Frutex circiter 2 m altus; foliis subtus glanduloso-punctatis, 
junioribus inflorescentiisque obscure adpresse lepidotis; foliis 
oblongo-lanceolatis, usque ad 17 cm longis, acuminatis, basi acutis, 
nervis utrinque 18 ad 20; paniculis terminalibus, multifioris, 
circiter 10 cm longis latisque, floribus at apices ramulorum 
subumbellatim dispositis, sepalis margine ciliatis, acutis, petalis 
valde punctatis. 
A shrub 2 m high or less, except for the scattered, minute, 
appressed, broviTi, lepidote scales on the younger branchlets, 
lower surfaces of younger leaves, and the inflorescence, glabrous. 
Branches slender, terete or somewhat compresed, brownish-gray, 
2 to 3 mm in diameter, more or less flexuous. Leaves oblong- 
lanceolate, membranaceous or chartaceous, 11 to 17 cm long, 2.5 
to 3.5 cm wide, brownish or pale when dry, slightly shining, the 
apex acute or acuminate, the base acute, prominently pustulate- 
punctate on the low^er surface; lateral nerves 18 to 20 on each 
side of the midrib, slender, prominent on the lower surface ; 
petioles 5 to 10 mm long. Panicles terminal, slightly brown- 
lepidote, about 10 cm long and wide, pyramidal, the primary 
branches few, spreading, the flowers subumbellately arranged at 
the tips of the secondary or very short tertiary branchlets, 5 
to 10 in each umbel. Flowers pink, their pedicels slender, 5 to 
6 mm long. Calyx 3 mm in diameter, the lobes spreading, oblong- 
ovate, acute, 1 mm long, prominently glandular-punctate with 
dark-colored glands, the margins ciliate-pubescent. Petals oblong, 
