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setose scales or bristles and gray scaly otherwise, ovate- 

 ly oblong to subelliptic, broadly rounded at the base, 

 sharply acute to acuminate, 3 to 5- veined from the base, 

 pale green and with numerous oblique cross bars, the 

 larger blades 8 cm. long by nearly one half as wide at 

 or below the middle, the upper surface conspicuously mark- 

 ed by linear yellowish white cystoliths, below setose 

 especially along the veins and bars, margins entire. In- 

 florescence terminal, shorter than the foliage, often sub- 

 tended by bract like leaves; peduncle solitary or 2 or 

 3-clustered, short, provided with ciliately fringed scales, 

 usually bearing few flowers from the middle or above it; 

 pedicels subtended by 5 mm. wide and up to lcm. long oblong 

 caducous bracts whose margins and median dorsal line are 

 ciliate, covered with sharply pointed and ciliate margined 

 gray scales; calyx ovoid, 1 cm. long, nearly as thick in the 

 fruiting state, densely light yellowish gray scale cover- 

 ed; its lobes erect, deciduous, in 2 alternating series; 

 the larger onas oblong, 5 to 6 mm. long, 4 mm. wide 

 from the base, the apex very short acute to obtusely 

 rounded, glabrous except along the median dorsal line 

 and ciliate margins; those of the outer series alterna- 

 ting, shorter, setaceous and entirely scale covered; pet- 

 als 5, strongly imbricate and somewhat twisted in the 

 bud, pink to purple, unequal in shape, about 2.5 cm. 

 long, narrowed toward the base, broad across the top. 

 obovate or obovately oblong; stamens in 2 series, the 

 4 fertile ones about 3 cm. long, the 5 sterile ones only 

 one third as long; filaments of the former terete, fleshy, 

 1 cm. long; fertile anthers curved, 2 cm. long, basifixed 

 at the bilobed base, the terminal thickened portion with 

 pollen; style on the upper side of the flowers, similar 

 to the filaments; the flattened circular stigma small. 

 Fruit irregularly splitting open; seeds numerous, brown, 

 triquetrous, 0.5 to 0.75 mm. across. 



Type specimen number 18479, A. D. E. Elmer, Los 

 Bafios (Mt. Maquiling), Province of Lnguna, Luzon, June- 

 July, 1917. Rare among the summit shrubberies of the 

 mountain. Number 36 Holman, April, 1911, from the same 

 altitudinal region is the same species. 



Separated from the common low country Meladoma 

 polyanthum Blm. by its broadly oblong and blunt nearly 

 glabrous calyx segments. Dedicated to R. M. Holman, one 

 of the original faculty members of the College of Agri- 

 culture and who first collected it. 



