1208 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Arr. 66 
Medinilla crassata Elm. n. sp. 
Shrubby; branches tough, terete, freely rebranched, branch- 
lets more or less angular, the twigs compressed and usually 
between the nodes broadly winged, nodes rather numerous, 
all parts glabrous. Leaves in opposite pairs, smooth, glabrous, 
very thick and turning blackish brown when dry, recurved 
toward the slender acuminate point, paler green beneath, easily 
breaking, entire, lanceolate to lanceolately oblong, base acute 
to obtuse, the larger blades 7.5 cm. long by 2.5 em. wide just 
below the middle; midvein conspicuous beneath, glabrous, red- 
dish, lateral pair of veins arising from near the base, less prom- 
inent, confluent with the midvein at the base of the apical 
point, cross bars obsolete; petiole 1 cm. long or less, glabrous, 
red; axillary hairs maroon colored, very short, deciduous. In- 
frutescence 1.5 dm. long, very slender; the drooping peduncle 
arising from the apex of the twigs, nearly 1 dm. long, subtended 
by bracteoles; fruits few clustered at the ends of the ultimate 
branchlets, red, ultimately soft and dark brown or nearly black, 
globose, 7.5 mm. in diameter, with an apical rim; pedicels 1 to 
1.5 em. long, gradually thickened toward the distal end; seeds 
numerous, brown, 1 to 1.5 mm. long, gradually thickened toward 
one end, sublucid. 
Type specimen 9311, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban (Mt. 
Banahao), Province of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1907. 
In dry or well drained soil of shaded woods at 2000 feet of 
mount Banahao. Rare! 
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Medinilla aurantiflora Elm. n. sp. 
Shrub, 4 to 5 m. high; branchlets terete, yellowish gray and 
roughened with brown lenticels, the young green portion covered 
with stramineus hairs; wood soft, reddish, with a slight fetid 
odor; bark on the stem brown and deeply checked. Leaves 
eoriaceous, spreading, dull green above, yellowish so beneath, 
with only a few unequal opposite pairs, obovately oblong, pan- 
durate at the base, abruptly terminating into the short sharply 
acuminate point, dark murinus in the dry state, entire, the larger 
leaves 2 dm. long by 9 em. wide above the middle; their opposed 
leaves proportionate in shape but only slightly more than one 
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