1194 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY (Vor. IV, Art. 66 
4 mm. long, stigma very minute; fruit with „the persistent 
calyx rim, ovoidly globose or merely globose, sweet, juicy, deep 
blue, brown puberulent; seeds numerous, pale yellow except 
the nearly black edge, 0.75 mm. long, subclavate. 
Type specimen 10577, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, May, 1909. 
In good soil of moist woods at 3500 feet south of mount 
Calelan. ‘‘Tolasola’’ is the Bagobo name. 
D. cumingii Naud. has 8 stamens; D. celebica Blm. only 4. 
Ours therefore is nearest to Blume’s species and differs from it 
in having larger calyx, petals twice as long, larger leaves whose 
shape is always ovately oblong rather 'than oblong and always 
visibly green beneath even in the young leaves. 
MELASTOMA Burm. 
Melastoma congesta Elm. n. sp. 
Erect shrub; stem 5 em. thiek, 3 to 4 m. high, branehed i *. 
from near the ground; wood odorless and tasteless, soft, greenish ! 
white, with a large pith; bark smooth, brownish; main branches | 
slender, ascending, few branched toward the ends; twigs angular, 
avellaneous scale covered. Leaves opposite, descending, char- 
taceous, folded upon the upper deeper green surface, when dry 
dull brown on the upper hispid surface and yellowish green on 
the short pubescent lower side, the entire margin subinvolute, 
exceedingly unequal in size, the lower or the larger blades nearly 
15 em. long by one half that across below the middle, gradually 
tapering to a sharp acute point, base broadly rounded, ovately 
oblong; midvein prominently raised and scaly beneath; lateral 
veins of 2 pairs, arising from the base, similarly prominent and 
scaly, the lowermost pair finer and submarginal; eross bars num- 
erous, parallel, yellowish green, conspicuous, hairy; petiole 1 to 
1.5 em. long, covered with diverse finely ciliate scales, usually % 
with interaxillary bracts. Inflorescence terminal, erect, congested, 
subtended by a pair of small leaves or merely by bracts; peduncle 
stout, short, angular, densely clustered, with sharply pointed 
bracts; pedicels similar though shorter, subtended by a pair of 
caducous rather oblong bracts 1.5 em. long; calyx tube 1.5 em. 
