352 The Philippine Journal of Science 1917 
4 mm long. Fruits ovoid-globose, truncate, 5 to 6 mm in 
diameter. 
Luzon, Tayabas Province, Mount Binuang, Bur. Sci. 28605 (type), 28687 
Ramos & Edaiio, May 7, 1917, on trees in the mossy forest. 
The alliance of this species is apparently with Medinilla negrosensis 
Merr., from which is distinguished by its differently shaped, much thicker 
leaves which are abruptly and very shortly blunt-acuminate; and the stout 
peduncles, branches, and branchlets of its inflorescences which are narrowly 
4-winged, 
MEDINILLA TRIANAE sp. nov. 
Frutex scandens, glaber, ramis ramulisque teretibus; foliis 
verticillatis, petiolatis, oblongo-ellipticis ad oblongo-obovatis, 
chartaceis vel subcoriaceis, nitidis, 5 ad 9 cm longis, apice brevi- 
ter abrupteque acuminatis, basi angustatis, acutis vel acumina- — 
tis, tenuiter trinerviis ; inflorescentiis e ramis defoliatis, brevibus, 
paucifloris, 2 ad 3 cm longis; fructibus 4-locellatis. 
A scandent glabrous shrub, the branches and branchlets terete, 
the latter slender, nodes not bearded. Leaves verticillate, 3 to 
5 at each node, oblong-elliptic to oblong-obovate, 5 to 9 cm long, 
2 to 4.5 cm wide, shining and of about the same color on both 
surfaces: when dry, slightly pustulate, the apex very abruptly 
and shortly acuminate or obtuse, the base narrowed and acute 
or somewhat decurrent-acuminate, slenderly 3-nerved, the lateral 
pair nearly or quite reaching the apex, transverse nerves and 
reticulations obsolete or very obscure; petioles 1 to 2.5 cm 
long. Inflorescences from the nodes on the branches below the 
leaves, short, few-flowered, 2 to 3 cm long. Flowers not seen. 
Fruit red, 4-celled, fleshy when fresh, urceolate, about 1 cm 
long, the ovoid portion crowned by the short, cylindric, truncate 
calyx-rim. 
Luzon, Laguna Province, Dahican, Phil. Pl. 1131 Ramos, September, 1912, 
in forests along the river. 
A species manifestly allied to Medinilla subumbellata Merr., which it 
resembles in vegetative characters, although differing in size and other 
details of the leaves. 
MEDINILLA VULCANICA sp. nov. 
Frutex erectus, glaber, ramis ramulisque teretibus; foliis 
oppositis, ellipticis ad ovato-ellipticis, subcoriaceis, usque ad 20 
cm longis, brevissime acuminatis, basi rotundatis vel subacutis, 
sessilis, 7-plinerviis, reticulis obsoletis; paniculis terminalibus, 
multifioris, pedunculatis, ramis ramulisque verticillatis, folia 
aequantibus vel longioribus; floribus parvis, 4-meris. 
An erect, entirely glabrous shrub or small tree (5 m high, 
fide Ramos). Branches and branchlets terete, the nodes not at 
Se aia 
