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peduncles up to 20 cm in length, the flowers numerous, arranged 
in a globose-umbellate head about 5 cm in diameter. Flowers 
pink, 5-merous, ebracteolate, their pedicels slender, glabrous, 
about 12 mm long. Calyx urceolate, about 4 mm long, the limb 
produced about 1.5 mm, obscurely 5-toothed. Petals 5, oblong- 
obovate, about 8 mm long, 4.5 mm wide, narrowed below, the 
apex inequilaterally rounded-subtruncate. Stamens 10, sub- 
equal; filaments 4 mm long; anthers about as long as the fila- 
ments, lanceolate, acuminate, the dorsal appendage very small, 
0.2 mm long, the two anterior ones oblong-ovoid, 0.7 mm long. 
Fruit red, about 5 mm in diameter. 
LEYTE, Buenavista, near Jaro, Wenzel 1131, September 23, 1914, in 
forests, altitude about 500 meters. 
A very characteristic species belonging in the group with Medinilla an- 
nulata C. B. Rob. It is strongly differentiated by its lanceolate, caudate- 
acuminate leaves, its long peduncles, its globose-umbellate simple inflores- 
cences, and its long, spreading, hirsute-setose hairs. 
MEDINILLA LEYTENSIS sp. nov. § Eumedinilla. 
Frutex 1 ad 2 m altus, suberectus vel scandens, ramulis subtus 
foliis inflorescentiisque plus minusve dense stellato- vel stellato- 
plumoso-tomentosis; foliis oppositis, in paribus plus minusve 
inaequalibus, oblongis, coriaceis, usque ad 14 cm longis; acumina- 
tis, breviter petiolatis, basi obtusis ad leviter cordatis, pinnatim 
7-plinerviis; inflorescentiis axillaribus terminalibusque, simplic- 
ibus, globosis ad cylindricis, dense confertis, usque ad 4 cm 
longis, circiter .2 cm diametro; floribus 5-meris, quisque cum 
bracteis et bracteolis obovatis ad orbicularis circiter 12 mm 
longis circumdatis. . 
A suberect or somewhat scandent shrub 1 to 2 m high, the 
younger branchlets, petioles, leaves on the lower surface, and 
inflorescence more or less densely stellate- or plumose-stellate- 
tomentose. Branches terete. Leaves opposite, coriaceous, those 
of each pair more or less unequal in size, ovate to oblong-ovate, 
6 to 14 cm long, 2.5 to 5 em wide, the smaller of each pair 
more or less similar in shape to the larger but from one-half 
to two-thirds as long, acuminate, base obtuse to somewhat cor- 
date, pinnately 7-plinerved, the nerves ascending, upper surface 
grayish and shining when dry, glabrous or the nerves more or 
less tomentose, the lower surface rather densely tomentose, the 
indumentum on the nerves and midrib distinctly plumose; pet- 
ioles densely tomentose, 2 mm long or less. Inflorescence mostly 
lateral, rarely terminal, mostly from the stems below the leaves, © 
solitary or in pairs, dense, globose to cylindric, about 2 cm in 
diameter, up to 4 cm long. Flowers 5-merous, spicately ar- 
