296 The Philippine Journal of Science 1920 
A slender, epiphytic, scandent shrub, the stems frequently 
emitting roots, the branches and branchlets terete, the latter, 
and the petioles and leaves on the midrib beneath, distinctly 
stellate-pubescent with short brown hairs. Leaves opposite, pen- 
ninerved, obovate-elliptic, subsessile, 10 to 18 cm long, 5 to 9 cm 
wide, the apex shortly acuminate, the base somewhat narrowed, 
rounded or obscurely cordate; midrib prominent, the lateral 
nerves leaving it in the lower 2 to 4 cm, distinct, ascending, 
usually 3 on each side of the midrib, the inner pairs extending 
to the apex; petioles 2 mm long or less. Inflorescences lateral, 
solitary, subsessile, the fiowers densely arranged in simple, 
globose to ovoid racemes, 2 to 2.5 cm long, each flower subtended 
by an obovate to spatulate, red, slightly pubescent bracteole, 10 
to 18 mm in length. Pedicels short. Calyx urceolate, about 7 
mm long and 5 mm in diameter, slightly stellate-pubescent, the 
limb produced, obscurely 5-toothed. Ovary 5-celled. 
Dinacat, Bur. Sci. 35179, Ramos & Pascasio, May 11, 1919, 
on tree trunks in forests at low altitudes. 
A remarkably characteristic species not closely allied to any 
previously described form, distinguishable by its subsessile, pen- 
ninerved, opposite leaves; its stellate, brownish, rather sparse 
indumentum; and its dense, lateral, subcapitate, simple racemes 
of 5-merous flowers. 
MEDINILLA CONFERTIFLORA sp. nov. 
Frutex erectus, glaberrimus, ramulis teretibus, foliis oppositis, 
sessilibus, oblongo-obovatis ad oblongo-lanceolatis, usque ad 20 
em longis, tenuiter acuminatis, basi perspicue angustatis, pen- 
ninerviis, nervis utrinque 4; inflorescentiis caulinis, ramosis, cir- 
citer 7 cm longis, densissime multifloris et multibracteatis, 
bracteis angustis obovatis ad spatulatis usque ad 15 mm longis; 
floribus 4-meris. 
An erect, entirely glabrous shrub, about 3 m high, with terete 
_ stems and opposite, sessile leaves. Leaves chartaceous when dry, 
oblong-obovate to oblong-lanceolate, 14 to 20 cm long, 5 to 10 
cm wide, olivaceous, penninerved, the apex slenderly acuminate, 
narrowed below to the rounded base, the narrow basal portion © 
of the leaf 2 to 5 cm in length and 1.5 to 3 cm in width; lateral 
nerves usually 4 on each side of the midrib, leaving it in the 
lower half, ascending, the inner two pairs reaching the apex 
or nearly so, the transverse reticulations distant, parallel, prom- 
inent. Inflorescences from the trunks, woody, branched, about 
7 cm long, densely many-flowered and multibracteate, the bracts 
narrowly obovate to spatulate, glabrous, up to 15 mm long, the 
