NoveMBer 29, 1911] New MELASTOMATACEAE 1207 
grooved, only slightly pale yellow puberulent; pedicels subterete, 
7.5 mm. long, usually curved, few to several clustered; fruits 
glabrous, dirty brown when dry, flatly globose, 7.5 mm. across, 
less in height, bearing the expanded 5-toothed persistent calyx 
rim; seeds numerous, 2 mm. long, linear though gradually 
tapering from end to end, light brown with a darker brown 
portion. 
Type specimen 11427, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, August, 1909. 
Found in a depression along a very moist wooded streamlet 
at 5500 feet on the eastern slope of Apo. The vernacular Bagobo 
name is “‘Bagobo.” 
MEDINILLA Gaud. 
Medinilla benguetensis Elm. n. sp. 
A bushy and subscandent shrub; branches tough, grayish 
brown, ultimately numerously rebranched, the green terminal 
portions glabrous; nodes numerous, quite large, 1 to 2 cm. long. 
Leaves shining green on both sides, opposite, scattered, subsessile, 
diverse in size, leathery, drying dull green, the petiole region pink, 
entire, usually recurved toward the obtuse or acuminate apex, 
base broadly rounded, the larger ones 4 em. long, nearly 2 em. 
wide across the base, quite sharp, varying from orbicular to 
lanceolate, normally ovate or ovately oblong, midvein evident, 
lateral ones obsolete; axillary hairs brown, minute, caducous. 
Infrutescence terminal, subpendant, 1 to 3 em. long, sparingly 
paniculate; all the stalks slender, green even in the dry state, 
glabrous, winged, the branchlets subtended by bracteoles, the 
pedicels 5 mm. long; fruit subglobose except the articulate and 
stipitate base, subtended by a pair of bracteoles, 7.5 mm. across, 
with a small rim at the apex, reddish blue and really soft when 
mature, glabrous and shining; seeds many, straw brown, 1 mm. 
ong, more or less clavate in shape. 
Type specimen 8435, A. D. E. Elmer, Baguio (Mt. Santo 
Tomas), Province of Benguet, Luzon, March, 1907. 
Gathered from limestone cliffs at 5000 feet. Rare, and 
is only known by my collections made in 1904 and 1907. 
