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the transverse nerves obsolete or barely visible on the upper 
surface; petioles about 1 cm long. Inflorescence terminal, red, 
long-peduncled, paniculate, the peduncle about 14 cm long, the 
panicle as long as the peduncle, the branches in distant whorls, 
the lower ones about 4 cm long. Flowers pink or pale violet, 
5-merous, the bracts and bracteoles, if any, small and very early 
deciduous. Calyx about 6 mm long, cup-shaped, truncate. 
Petals 5, about 10 mm long, obliquely obovate. Stamens 10, 
subequal ; filaments 6 to 7 mm long; anthers narrowly lanceolate, 
acuminate, 8 mm long, the dorsal appendage reduced to a very 
minute, 0.2 mm long tubercle, the anterior ones produced about 
1.5 mm below the insertion of the filament, somewhat curved, 
oblong. 
Luzon, Ifugao Subprovince, Mount Polis, Bur. Sci. 19870 McGregor, Feb- 
ruary 10, 1913. 
Manifestly a close ally of Medinilla clementis Merr., differing in the 
characters indicated in the diagnosis, 
MEDINILLA STENOBOTRYS sp. nov. 
Frutex epiphyticus, glaber, circiter 2 m aitus, ramulis incras- 
satis, 4-angulatis, 4-alatis, circiter 1 cm diametro; foliis coria- 
ceis, oppositis, sessilis, usque ad 30 cm longis, elliptico-ovatis, 
acuminatis, perspicue 9-plinerviis; inflorescentiis terminalibus, 
trinis, angustis, multifloris, 25 ad 30 cm longis et 4 cm latis, 
rhachibus valde incrassatis, alatis; floribus numerosissimis, 4- 
meris, secus rhachin fasciculatis vel cymosis, cymis fasciculatis. 
A stout, glabrous, epiphytic shrub about 2 m high, the ultimate 
branches 4-angled, 4-winged, about 1 cm in diameter. Leaves 
opposite, coriaceous, rather pale when dry, somewhat shining, 
sessile, elliptic-ovate, 24 to 30 cm long, 17 to 22 cm wide, apex 
acuminate, the acumen rather stout, about 1 em long, the base 
somewhat narrowed and more or less clasping the stem, prom- 
inently 9-plinerved, lateral nerves leaving the midrib in the 
lower 9 to 11 cm, the inner two pairs reaching the tip of the 
leaf, the transverse nerves and reticulations lax, obscure. Inflor- 
escences terminal, each branchlet terminated by three stout, . 
narrow, racemose panicles 25 to 30 cm in length and about 4 
cm in diameter, the rachis stout, about 1 em in diameter when 
dry, the membranaceous wings 2 to 4 mm in width, the peduncles 
8 to 10 cm long. Flowers 4-merous, dark-pink, very numerous, 
fascicled or cymose and the cymes fascicled at the nodes of the 
rachis, often crowded. Calyx cup-shaped, truncate, about 4 mm 
long. Petals 4, oblong-obovate, somewhat oblique, 7 to 8 mm 
long. Stamens 8, equal, the filaments and anthers each about 
