215 



l'i linn. long. Fruit ovoid, about 1 cm. Long. Seeds oblong, rounded 

 at the apex, about 1.5 mm. long. 



Luzon, Province of Benguet, Baguio (4332 Merrill) October 22, 1905; (44 

 Topping) February, 1903. 



A shrub characterized by its elongated, faintly nerved leaves and pendulous 

 inflorescence, growing in damp shaded ravines along small streams at an altitude 

 of about 1,500 in. 



Medinilla myriantha Merrill sp. now 



A shrub I to 5 in. high, quite glabrous throughout, with opposite, T 

 to 9-nerved sessile leaves and terminal many flowered panicles, the flowers 

 l-nierous. Branches fcerte, rather slender, the younger ones obscurely 

 angled, the nodes densely barbellate. Leaves subeoriaeeous, elliptical 

 ovate, 9 to 13 cm. long, 5.5 to 7 cm. wide, the apex abruptly short. 

 acuminate, the base cordate, often broadly so: nerves 7. prominent, 

 sometimes with an additional pair of outer short nerves at the base. 

 Panicles 10 to 20 cm. long, pink, many flowered, the branches vcrticillate. 

 the lower ones about 9 cm. long, gradually shorter upwards, the bracts 

 minute, subulate. Flowers numerous, pink. Calyx urceolate-cvlindrical, 

 4 mm. long, truncate. Petals 4, oblique, about 8 mm. long. Stamens 

 S, subequal: filaments 1 mm. long: anthers nearly 5 mm. long, the spur 

 less than 1 mm. long. 



Luzon. Province of Laguna, .Mount Maquiling (5129, 51:53 Merrill) March 17, 

 1906. Abundant in the mossy forest 900 to 1,100 m. A species apparently 

 related to Medinilla intermedia Blume. differing from that species in its more 

 numerously nerved, sessile, cordate leaves and larger flowers. 



Medinilla teysmanni Miq. Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. 1 (1804) 217; Cogn. in 

 DC. Monog. Phan. 7 (1891) 593. 

 Mindanao, Camp Keithley, Lake Lanao (1 Mrs. Vlcmens) December, 1905. 

 A speeies previously known only from Celebes and New Guinea, the specimen 

 cited above differing from the species, as described, in its somewhat larger flowers 

 but in no essential characters so far as I can detect. 



PACHYCENTRIA Blume. 



Pachycentria formicaria Morrill sp. nov. 



A glabrous or nearly glabrous epiphytic shrub ."><) em. high or less with 

 3-nerved leaves, the transverse nerves very obscure or obsolete, short 

 petioles, and terminal corymbose inflorescence, the roots with oblong to 

 ovoid thickened bulb-like swellings 1 to ;> cm. in diameter. Branches 

 light gray to brownish, terete, glabrous or the younger branchlets 

 minutely furfuraceous, Leaves coriaceous, oblong to elliptical or ovate 

 oblong, pale when dry. dull, (i to 12 cm. long. L.5 to L5 cm. wide, entire. 

 the base acute, the apex shortly acuminate, the lateral basal nerves 

 slender, ascending, subinarginal. not reaching the apex; petioles :> to L0 

 mm. long. Corymbs about 5 cm. long, nearly as wide, many flowered, 

 glabrous or nearly so, the bracteoles minute. Flowers pink. Calyx 

 narrow, urceolate, about 4 nun. long, constricted above the ovary, the 



