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divaricate, lax, horizontal or descending, rebranched, light 

 gray and more or less lenticelled; twigs suberect, glabrous 

 even the young tips. Leaves opposite, similarly spreading, 

 leathery, glabrous, much paler or yellowish green beneath, 

 rotund, exceedingly variable in size but not in shape, entire 

 or obscurely subinvolute when dry, curing dark or dull 

 brown especially beneath, broadly rounded at the base and 

 at the apex but terminated by a sharp point 5 to 8 mm 

 in length, the larger blades 13 cm across both ways, the 

 smaller ones less than one third as large, the average about 

 8 cm; midveiu prominent beneath, plane above, straight 

 clear into the apical point, with 2 lateral pairs of veins; 

 the upper of these pairs arising 3 to 5 mm from the base, 

 gracefully curved and confluent with the midvein at the 

 base of the apical point; the basal pair less prominent and 

 extending 5 mm below the margins near to the apical 

 portion; cross bars and reticulations obsolete; petioles sub- 

 terete, 2.o to nearly 4 cm long, blackish when dry, slightly 

 grooved along the upper side, striate beneath at the top or 

 distal en 1. Flowers not found. Fruits lateral, few clustered, 

 w.th a broad truncate rim, considerably constricted below 

 it, otherwise subglobose though frequently rugose or lumpy 

 especially toward the rim, hard, glaucous green, 2 cm long 

 in the resh state, the base much constricted and short 

 ped.cel-like, apparently 6-celled; peduncles ranging from 3 to 

 7 cm in length, smooth and glabrous, subterete, bearing 

 few fmits toward their ends, pale green; pedicels 1 cm long, 

 divaricate. 



Type specimen number 13738, A. D. E. Elmer, Canad- 

 ian (Mt Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Sept- 

 ember, 1912. 



Discovered on a lateral side of a densely forested depres- 

 sion along the main ridge connecting Duros with Cawilanan 

 peaks at_ 3.00 feet elevation. The Ma.iobos call it "Bodung » 



Distinct from Medlnilla duodecandra Merr. or its nearest ally. 



Melastoma setosum Elm. n. sp. 



Spreading shrub; stem 8 cm thick, 5 m high or less 

 subterete, crooked, branched from below the middle; wood 



