LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY 
EDITED BY A. D. E. ELMER, A. M. 
Vol. IV. Manila, P. I., November 29, 1911. Art. 66 
NEW MELASTOMATACEAE 
By 
A, D. E. Elmer 
In this article the author only describes the new species of 
Melastomataceae segregated from his five years’ collections. 
A good many other already known species were collected and 
distributed from year to year. Apo and Banahao are exceedingly 
rich in Melastomataceae. This family as a whole is very interest- 
ing and new in the Philippines, and is especially well re- 
presented in humid regions with a heavy and rather even rainfall 
such as on the mountains along the Pacific coast. 
The following fourteen additional novelties are now held in 
manuscript in the herbarium, Bureau of Science, and are 
based upon material more recently collected than my own. 
Numbers 10225 from the Cuernos mountains and 11425 from 
mount Apo are Everettia pulcherrima Merr. The climbing and 
sprawling Dissochaeta stellata Merr. is now being distributed 
under number 8236 and was collected on the road between Lucban 
and Sampaloc. Creochiton rosea Merr. is the same as my number 
10563 from the forested topotype of mount Apo at 3500 feet. 
In this same region I collected 11434 or Melastoma lanaense Merr. 
At Lucban, in the vicinity of mount Banahao, were gathered 
numbers 7440 which is Astronia williamsii Merr. and 7439 As- 
tronia meyeri Merr. Number 11752 from the foothills of Apo is 
Memecylon nervosum Merr. My specimens of Medinilla copelandii 
Merr. are exactly as 10502 from mount Apo, the topotype. 
Numbers 9537 and 9435 from the Cuernos mountains, southern 
