a 
T3 
NovEMszn 29, 1911] NEW MELASTOMATACEAE 1199 
4, obovately oblongish or quite irregular in shape, caducous, 
reflexed, 1.5 mm. long, stamens 8; filaments equal and inserted 
upon the calyx rim, bluish purple, glabrous, 1.5 mm. long, usual- 
ly eurved, subterete; anther also curved, 1 mm. long, oblongish, 
eyaneus on the back which extends beyond the attachment of 
the filament and outwardly curved, the ventral side dehiscing 
and pale yellow; style also yellowish, glabrous, strict, terete, 
2 mm. long, apex rather sharply pointed. 
Type specimen 13060, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, April 1911. 
Discovered in moist fertile humus covered soil of. dense for- 
ests at 750 feet elevation and on the trail across the range to 
Napsan on the west coast. 
It belongs in the same group with M. paniculatum Jack and 
M. nervosum Merr. 
Memecylon apoense Elm. n. sp. 
A rather small tree; stem 1.75 dm. thick, 7 m. high or higher, 
branched from below the middle; wood hard, whitish, odorless 
and tasteless; bark brown or mottled with gray, smooth; branches 
rather long and freely rebranched, divaricate, the ultimate ones 
green, glabrous and subterete, brown when dry. Leaves spreading 
horizontally or descending, leathery, shinmg deep green on the 
upper side, much paler or lighter green beneath, glabrous, the 
recurved tips abruptly acuminate, otherwise flat, the entire mar- 
gins subinvolute in the dry leaves, elliptic to ovately elliptic, 
15 em. long by 7.5 em. wide, the terminal ones usually much 
smaller, drying dull green, base broadly obtuse or rounded; 
midvein very pronounced beneath; the 9 to 11 lateral pairs of 
nerves very obscure, subparallel, divaricate, united into a 
submarginal line, reticulations none; petiole very stout, less than 
1 cm. long. Inflorescence from the uppermost leaf axils or from 
the branchlets; peduncle strict, glabrous, green, angular or grooved 
on the 2 edges, 1 to 3 em. long, suberect, occasionally 1 or 2- 
branched; flowers umbellately fascicled; pedicels strict, 3 mm. 
long, also glabrous, subtended at the base by rim-like subpersis- 
tent bracts; calyx bowl shaped, glabrous, 5 mm. high and as wide 
across the truneate rim at the apex, pinkish; petals 6 mm. long, 
a trifle narrower, thick, pale red, apiculate, rotund or broadly 
