1192 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Anr. 66 
Negros, are Medinilla congesta Merr. and Medinilla clementis 
Merr. respectively. 7630, 7457 and 8040 from mount Banahao 
are identical with Medinilla disparijolia C. B. Rob., and were col- 
lected in similar sitios. Five years ago I discovered in this 
same general region Medinilla cephalophora Merr. and Medinilla l 
cogniauxii Merr., two numbers of the former were distributed 1 
under 7532 and 7928, and the latter under 7530. On the summit 
of mount Banahao was gathered Medinilla whitjordii Merr. and 
was issued under number 7592. 
CREOCHITON Blm. 
Creochiton diptera Elm. n. sp. 
Seandent upon lofty trees; branches not numerously re- 
branched, terete, with brown and finely checked bark, the twigs 
densely umber scurfy or pulverulent. Leaves opposite, seat- 
tered, ascending, coriaceous, flat but sunken on the upper surface 
along the nerves, scurfily pulverulent on both sides when young, AA 
glabrous when old, diverse in size only, dull green except the | 
lighter or yellowish green nether side, elliptic or ovately so, the 
entire margins slightly recurved in the dry state, curing yellowish 
brown, the larger blades 7.5 cm. long, 4.5 cm. wide across the 
widest portion, usually the uppermost ones smaller, quite rigid, 
apex rounded or obtusely rounded, frequently a trifle emarginate, 
base broadly rounded; midvein bold beneath, sunken above, 
densely umber scurfy, finally glabrate; lateral veins 2 pairs, the 
basal pair arising 2 mm. from the base and extending below the 
margin to above the middle of the blade, the more conspicuous and 
upper pair arising 5 mm. from the base and curvingly extending 
clear into the apex, cross bars rather numerous and quite evident 
from beneath; petiole similarly scurfy, when old nearly glabrous, 
varying from 5 to 20 mm. long, terete. Inflorescence divaricate 
and subdeflexed from the leaf axils, upon a 2.5 em. long seurfy p 
peduncle; pedicels of the 3 flowers about one third as long as the 3 
peduncle but which elongate with the maturing of the fruit; 
subtending bracts sessile, yellowish and pulverulent, roundly 
cordate, erect, 2; calyx yellowish green; corolla whitish, spreading, 
usually with 4 petals; pistil pink; anthers deep. purple or indigo 
