282 The Philippine Journal of Science 1915 
plicibus, floribus paucis, umbellatim dispositis; floribus magnis, 
6-meris, ebracteolatis, calycibus circiter 12 cm longis, petalis 
obovatis, 2.8 cm longis. 
A scandent glabrous shrub reaching a height of 7 m, the 
branches and branchlets terete, stout. Leaves opposite, ovate, 
coriaceous, 8 to 14 em long, 5 to 10 em wide, pale when dry, 
somewhat shining, apex very shortly and abruptly apiculate, 
base acute to rounded, 5- or faintly 7-nerved, the reticulations 
obsolete or nearly so; petioles 2 to 3 cm long. Inflorescence 
lateral, simple, umbellate, solitary or fascicled up to 5 em in 
length, the peduncles 2.5 to 5 em long, mostly from the axils 
of fallen leaves, each with about 3 umbellately arranged, ebrac- 
teate, short-pedicelled flowers. Flowers pink, large, 6-merous. 
Calyx about 12 mm long and 1 cm in diameter, cup-shaped to 
somewhat urceolate, truncate, narrowed below to the 2 mm long 
pedicels, Petals 6, obovate, somewhat inequilateral, rounded, 
narrowed below, 2.8 cm long and 1.8 em wide. Stamens 12, 
somewhat unequal; filaments about 15 mm long; anthers of the 
shorter stamens lanceolate, acuminate, curved, about 9 mm long, 
the dorsal appendage slender, truncate, somewhat flattened, 
curved, about 2.5 mm long, the anterior two oblong, obtuse, 
stout, curved, about 2 mm long; anthers of the longer filaments 
up to 11 mm in length. Ovary 6-celled. Fruit ovoid or globose- 
ovoid, truncate, about 1.5 em in diameter. 
LEYTE, Buenavista, near Jaro, Wenzel 941 (type), 1196, July 3, and 
October 11, 1914, the former in flower, the latter in fruit, in forests, altitude 
about 500 meters. 
A species falling in the group with Medinilla laurifolia Blume, according 
to Cogniaux’s arrangement, but quite different from all the other forms 
place here. It is characterized by its unusually large, 6-merous, umbellately 
arranged flowers, its short lateral inflorescences, and its opposite, ovate to 
broadly ovate, 5- or 7-nerved leaves. 
SYMPLOCACEAE 
SYMPLOCOS Jacquin 
SYMPLOCOS WENZELI! sp. nov. § Bobua. 
Arbor circiter 10 m alta, ramulis subtus foliis ad costa ner- 
visque petiolisque prominente ciliato-hirsutis; foliis coriaceis, 
oblongis vel oblongo-ovatis, usque ad 22 cm '‘longis, utrinque an- 
gustatis, basi acutis, apice acuminatis apiculatisque, margine 
integris vel obscurissime distanter denticulatis, nervis utrinque 
circiter 10; inflorescentiis terminalibus, paniculatis, multifloris, 
circiter 13 cm longis, e basi ramosis, dense pubescentibus; flori- 
bus circiter 9 mm diametro, sessilibus vel brevissime pedicellatis, 
