NOVEMBER 29, 1911] NEW MELASTOMATACEAE 1195 
long, 1 em. thick, densely covered with slenderly lanceolate gray- 
ish green scales whose margins are finely ciliate, with 5 broadly 
lanceolate teeth; these are at least 1.5 em. long, nearly 1 
cm. wide toward the base, subglabrous and reddish on the inner 
side, the median dorsal region covered with similar scales as the 
calyx itself, much less so toward the edge which bears ciliate 
hairs; petals 5, rose red, early falling, 2.5 em. long, obovate, 
bearing a small beard at the apex; stamens 10, in 2 unequal se- 
ries; filaments subequal in length, 1 em. long, glabrous, yellowish, 
fleshy; the anthers of the lower or shorter series bright yellow, 
strongly curved, aslong as the filaments, basifixed, with 2 small 
auricular lobes on the sides at the base, tapering to a fine point; 
anthers of the upper or the longer stamens somewhat longer and 
thicker, less curved, purplish red, the basal portion of the anther 
sacs obscurely lobed and set upon a 7.5 mm. long strongly curved 
stipe which at the base bears a pair of short spurs or appendages; 
style terete, red, also glabrous, bearing a green stigma. 
Type specimen 12402, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Sibuyan, May, 1910. 
On the slopes of hills covered with grasses and shrubs in 
well drained red compact soil at 750 feet. The Visayan on Si- 
buyan call it **Rosas-de-Japon". 
The leaves and calyx at once distinguish it from M. fuscum 
Merr. 
MEMECYLON Linn. 
Memecylon gitingense Elm. n. sp. 
A small tree; stem 1.5 dm. thick, terete, 8 m. high, branched 
from the" middle; wood moderately hard and heavy, brownish 
toward the center, odorless and tasteless; bark comparatively 
thin, dull brown, finely shredded or checked; branches widely 
spreading, ultimately and laxly rebranched, glabrous, reddish 
brown, thin, terminal ones very fine. Leaves opposite, copious, 
scattered along the branchlets, descending, thinly coriaceous, 
glabrous, curing subviridis, eurvingly folded upon the upper side, 
recurved toward the very slender acuminate apex, base broadly 
cuneate, margins entire, the largest blades 5 cm. long by 2 em. 
