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attached to the lower inner angle of each cell; style slender, 9 mm long; 
stigma punctiform. 
Luzon, Province of Laguna, Dajican, near Paete, Bur. Sci. 8986 Foxworthy, 
July 25, 1909, in forests, altitude not given. 
This proposed new genus is manifestly closely allied to Medinilla, differing 
especially in its produced and prominently 4-lobed calyx-tube and densely pilose 
top of the ovary. It differs also from that genus in its dense, hemispherical, 
sessile, involucrate heads, and in its buds being entirely inclosed within one of 
the bracteoles, the bracteole later splitting and becoming 2-lobed; it also differs 
from most of the known species of Medinilla in its very unequal leaves. 
MEDINILLA Gaudich. 
Medinilla cardiophylla sp. nov. 
Species M. myrtiformi simillima et valde affinis, differt foliis paulo 
majoribus, basi late rotundatis valde cordatis. 
An epiphytic shrub about 1.5 m. high, glabrous throughout. Branches 
slender, terete, reddish-brown or grayish. Leaves ovate to ovate-lan- 
ceolate, opposite, subcoriaceous, 7 to 10 em long, 3 to 4.5 em wide, 
the base broad and rounded, rather strongly cordate, the apex long and 
rather slenderly acuminate, the acumen blunt, 5-plinerved, the interior 
pair prominent and reaching the apex of the leaf, the outside pair much 
fainter and reaching to about the middle of the leaf, the reticulations 
very faint or subobsolete; petiole about 1 mm long or almost wanting. 
Cymes axillary, solitary, slender, few-flowered, 3 to 5 em long, the 
peduncles 3.5 cm long or less, the pedicels slender. Flowers 4-merous. . 
Calvx somewhat campanulate, 3 to 3.5 mm long, base narrowed, limb 
produced about 1 mm and with four small, distant teeth. Petals 4, 
oblong-lanceolate, somewhat acuminate, about 6 mm long, 2.2 mm wide. 
Stamens 8, the four longer ones about 6 mm long, the four shorter ones 
5 mm long; anthers 3 to 3.5 mm long, lanceolate, straight, the connective 
not produced, with a dorsal, stout, broad, 0.5 mm long spur, the front 
with two broad, rather obscure auricles. Ovary 4-celled; style about 6 
mm long; stigma punctiform. Fruit scarlet, globose, 6 mm in diameter, 
crowned by the minute calyx-teeth. 
Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens 861, December, 1906, 
in fruit, s.n., September, 1907, in flower (type). Luzon, Province of Albay, 
Mount Mayon, Bur. Sci. 6509 Robinson, September 6, 1908, on trees in stream 
depressions, altitude 400 m. 
A species manifestly very closely allied to Medinilla myrtiformis Triana, 
differing in the points stated in the diagnosis. The present species with M. 
myrtiformis Triana and M. ramiflora Merr. form a group of closely allied forms 
which perhaps have as much the characters of Anplectrum as of Medinilla. Medi- 
nilla ramiflora Merr. may not prove to be specifically distinct from the Bornean 
Anplectrum homoeandrum Stapf. 
