T 
NOVEMBER 29, 1911] New MELASTOMATACEAE 1193 
except the light cream colored basal tip; filaments of the same 
color as that of the basal portion of the anther tips. 
Type specimen 9813, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete (Cuernos 
Mts.), Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, April, 1908. 
Only a few specimens were secured at 4000 feet altitude. 
‘“‘Buyon-buyon” is the local Visayan name. 
DISSOCHAETA Bim. 
Dissochaeta subviridis Elm. n. sp. 
Seandent and overtopping small trees and thickets; stem 
soft, 2.5 em. thick; wood yellowish, porous; bark comparatively 
thick, longitudinally checked, also yellowish; branches slender, 
drooping, finely rusty brown scurfy, terete or nearly so. Leaves op- 
positely scattered along the branchlets, divaricately spreading, flat 
except the recurved slenderly acuminate tips, thinly coriaceous, 
glabrous and dull green above, the nether side whitish or glau- 
cescent, curing dull green on both sides, when young the lower side 
appears somewhat reddish due to the scales, brown scurfy along 
the veins and cross bars, otherwise stellately white pubescent, 
ovately oblong, base broadly rounded, the average blades 1 dm. 
long by 4 cm. wide toward the base, the entire margins minutely 
involute in the dry state; midvein conspicuous beneath, fuligin- 
eus scurfy, the lateral pair arising from the base and gracefully 
curved, the submarginal line present, cross bars relatively bold, 
finely scurfy; petiole 1.5 em. long, similarly seurfy, ultimately 
becoming glabrate. Inflorescence terminal, drooping, paniculate, 
1 to 2 dm. long, fuligineus, all the stalks striate, the secondary 
branches divaricate and usually subtended by broad bract ves- 
tiges; pedicels 3 to 5 mm. long; calyx urceolate, 5 mm. long, 3.5 
mm. wide, minutely and densely scurfy brown, bearing an ob- 
securely 4-lobed glabrous rim; petals 4, thick, elliptically oblong, 
5 mm. long, 3.5 mm. wide, deep pink, strongly recurved, glabrous, 
doubly curved, 4 mm. long, subterete; anthers light yellow at 
apex, brownish yellow toward the base, inflexed in the bud state 
3.5 mm. long, excluding the thin brown linear 2 mm. long truncate 
pair of basal appendages, stipitate, linearly oblong, on the dorsal 
side at the base of the stipe merely mucronate; style red, terete, 
