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and with two 1.5 mm long spurs in front, the five shorter ones 6 mm 
long, their anthers 3 mm long, the connective not produced, with two 
large tubercles in front. 
In the mossy forest, C. M. Z. 18103. The following material is also referable 
here, all from the Benguet-Lepanto region: near Suyoc, mossy forest, altitude 
2,000 m, For. Bur, 14456 Darling; Pauai, Bur. Sci. 4428 Mearns, altitude at least 
2,000 m; Mount Tonglon (Santo Tomas), Elmer 6252 (type), Williams 1210, 
altitude above 2,000 m, mossy forest. ; 
This species, like the preceding, is apparently referable to section III of the 
genus as defined in Cogniaux’s monograph of the family; it has been confused with 
M. toppingii Merr., but is quite different from that species. Named in honor of 
Mr. Charles Benson who made the first ascent of Mount Pulog. 
SARCOPYRAMIS Wall. 
1. S. delicata C. B. Rob, in Bull. Torr. Bot. Club. 35 (1908), 72, 75. 
Common in the mossy forest, Merrill 6497, McGregor 8855, 0. M. Z. 16449, 
also at the base of ledges in the summit grass lands, 0. M. Z. 16167. 
Widely distributed on the higher mountains of Luzon, and also known from 
Mount Halcon, Mindoro, and Mount Apo, Mindanao; mountains of Formosa. 
MEDINILLA Gaudich. 
1, M. cordata Merr. in Govt. Lab. Publ. (Philip.) 29 (1905) 37. 
Abundant in the mossy forest, C. M. Z. 18095, Merrill 6578, McGregor 8862. 
Common and widely distributed at higher altitudes in the Benguet-Lepanto 
region; endemic. 
2. Medinilla pulogensis Merrill sp. nov. 
Frutex, partibus junioribus exceptis glaber, 3 ad 4 m altus; ramis 
ramulisque griseis, teretibus, novellis plus minus furfuraceis; foliis 
oblongo-obovatis vel oblongo-ellipticis, oppositis, 5-plinerviis, petiolo 
usque ad 1.5 cm longo; floribus 6-meris, terminalibus, calycis dentibus 
brevibus. 
A glabrous shrub, the young parts excepted, 3 to 4 m high. Branches 
and branchlets gray, terete, the youngest branchlets and leaves some- 
what furfuraceous, soon becoming quite glabrous. Leaves opposite, 
oblong-obovate to oblong-elliptic, coriaceous, somewhat shining, 4 to 6 
em long, 1.5 em to 3 em wide, rounded or obtuse, rarely broadly and 
obscurely acuminate, base gradually narrowed, acute or acuminate- 
decurrent; nerves 5, the outer pair much fainter than the inner three; 
petioles 1 to 1.5 cm long. Flowers 6-merous, usually in threes at the 
apices of the branchlets, the calyx (in bud) cup-shaped, truncate, about 
5 mm long, with 5 minute, obscure teeth, the pedicels 3 to 6 mm long. 
In the mossy forest above an altitude of 2,250 m, C. M. Z. 18105. 
Manifestly very closely allied to Medinilla whitfordii Merr. (Carionia tripli- 
nervia Rolfe), differing from that species chiefly in its much longer petioles. 
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