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the midrib, slender, scarcely more evident than the secondary 

 ones, anastomosing with a faint submarginal nerve, the leaf 

 margin revolute; petioles about 1 cm long. Inflorescence ter- 

 minal, corymbose, in fruit about 7 cm long and wide, peduncled, 

 the flowers apparently in triads on the ultimate branchlets. 

 Young fruit cylindric to somewhat sausage-shaped, up to 1.5 cm 

 long and 7 mm in diameter, nearly mature ones oblong-ellipsoid, 

 about 2.5 cm long, subequally narrowed at both ends, all very 

 hard when dry and brownish-purple in color. 



Luzon, Province of Sorsogon, Bulusan Volcano, Bur. Set. 23670 Ramos, 

 September 4, 1915, in forests on the lower slopes. 



The species is perhaps in the same group as Eugenia crassibracteata 

 Merr., but is much larger in all respects, has quite differently shaped 

 leaves, and a different inflorescence. The cylindric or sausage-shaped 

 immature fruits, which are very hard when dry, are very characteristic. 



MELASTOMATACEAE 



M EDI N ILL A Gaudichaud 

 MEDINILLA SORSOGONENSIS sp. nov. 



Frutex scandens, glaber, ramis ramulisque crassis, acute 

 tetragonis; foliis oppositis, petiolatis, oblongis, acuminatis, basi 

 acutis vel rotundatis, 5-nerviis, usque ad 24 cm longis; inflores- 

 centiis lateralibus, solitariis, umbellatis, breviter pedunculatis, 

 paucifloris, floribus 4-meris, staminibus subaequalibus. 



A scandent glabrous shrub apparently of small size, the 

 branches stout, about 1 cm in diameter, acutely 4-angled, not 

 setose at the nodes. Leaves opposite, petiolate, membranaceous 

 when dry, oblong, 16 to 24 cm long, 6 to 8 cm wide, base acute 

 or rounded, apex slenderly acuminate, olivaceous when dry, some- 

 what shining; nerves all basal, the inner pair more prominent 

 than the outer, the transverse nervules very slender, obscure; 

 petioles 3 to 4 cm long. Inflorescence lateral, solitary, scattered 

 along the stem, consisting of short-peduncled, few-flowered 

 umbels, the peduncles 1 to 1.5 cm long, slender. Flowers 

 4-merous, usually about 5 in each umbel, their pedicels 1 cm long 

 or less. Calyx obconic, about 7 mm long, the limb produced, 

 truncate. Petals irregularly oblong-obovate, about 12 mm long. 

 Stamens subequal, the lanceolate anthers 10 mm long, curved, 

 acuminate. 



Luzon, Province of Sorsogon, Mount Pocdal, Bur. Sci. 23556 Ramos, 

 August 6, 1915, in the mossy forest. 



This species is manifestly closely allied to Medinilla polUlensis C. B. 

 Rob., which it greatly resembles. That species, however, has prominently 

 3- or 5-plinerved leaves, while the present one has distinctly 5-nerved ones. 



