NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VIII. 209 
or longer than the peduncle, the fruits urceolate, about 8 mm long, 6 mm 
in diameter, the calyx-limb persistent, truncate, produced about 4 mm, 
6-celled. 
Necros, Mount Marapara, For. Bur. 17353 Curran, September 11, 1909, epi- 
phytic on trees in forests, altitude about 500 m. 
Although the specimen is without flowers I have no doubt but that it is 
referable to Medinilla, even though the fruits are distinctly 6-celled, indicating 
a 6-merous flower, a character uncommon in the genus. It is well characterized 
by its comparatively very small leaves which are whorled, petioled, and broadly 
obovate, the veins three only, and the reticulations obsolete. The fruits are 
solitary, but at the junction of the pedicels with the peduncles are found some 
minute scars indicating a few-flowered, probably cymose, or possibly umbellate 
inflorescence. Medinilla obovata has much smaller leaves than most of the other 
Philippine species of the genus. 
Medinilla whitfordii Merr. in Govt. Lab. Publ. (Philip.) 29 (1905) 37. 
Carionia triplinervia Rolfe in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 21 (1884) 310; Vid. 
Rev. Pl. Vase. Filip. (1886) 136; Cogn. in DC. Monog. Phan. 7 (1891) 571, non 
Medinilla triplinervia Cogn. 
Luzon, District of Lepanto, Mount Data, For. Bur. 10956 Curran: Province of 
Benguet, Pauai, Bur. Sci. 4478 Mearns; Pauai to Baguio, Merrill 4779: Province 
of Zambales, Mount Pinatubo, Bur. Sci. 2556 Foaworthy, Provinces of Laguna 
and Tayabas, Mount Banajao, Whitford 961 (type of M. whitfordii), Bur. Sci. 
6062 Robinson, Bur. Sci. 2888 Foxworthy, For. Bur. 7899 Ourran & Merritt: 
Province of Albay, Mount Mayon, Vidal 779 in herb. Kew (type of Carionia trip- 
linervia Rolfe), Bur. Sei. 6504 Robinson. 
Reéxamination of the type of Medinilla whitfordii Merr. shows that its flowers 
are 6-merous instead of 5-merous as originally described, and comparison of 
our recently collected Philippine material with the type of Carionia triplinervia 
Rolfe at Kew has shown that Medinilla whitfordii Merr. is identical. The 
species is to me a Medinilla rather than a Carionia, in spite of its 6-merous 
flowers. Carionia is distinguished from Medinilla by its 6-merous flowers and 
its spreading 4 to 5 mm long calyx-teeth, but Carionia triplinervia has a truncate 
calyx with only very minute teeth, and in all other respects is a typical Medinilla ; 
either it must be transferred to Medinilla, or the few species with 6-merous 
flowers now placed in Medinilla must be transferred to Carionia. Medinilla has 
4- to 6-merous flowers, and it would be just as logical to segregate those species 
with 4-merous flowers in one genus, and those with 5-merous flowers into another, 
as it would be to refer species like the present with 6-merous flowers but with a 
truncate calyx to Carionia. The specific name selected by Mr. Rolfe is invalidated 
in Medinilla. 
MEMECYLON Bl. 
Memecylon sessilifolium sp. nov. 
Arbor glabra circiter 16 m alta; ramulis acute tetragonis, angustissime 
alatis, crassis; foliis sessilibus, coriaceis, nitidis, usque ad 12 cm longis, 
late obtuseque acuminatis, penninerviis, nervis vix distinctis. Fructibus 
fasciculatis vel solitariis, pedicellatis, 1 ad 1.5 cm diametro. 
A glabrous tree about 16 m high. Branches stout, subterete, covered 
with a thin, grayish bark, the branchlets sharply 4-angled, very narrowly 
winged on the angles, the wings less than 0.5 mm wide. Leaves sessile, 
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