NoveMBeER 29, 1911] New MELASTOMATACEAE 1209 
4 half as large, subsessile, with aurieulate lobes at the base; mid- 
É fi vein very large toward the base and usually provided with crisp 
whitish hairs, ultimately glabrous; lateral main pairs of veins 3, 
the finer or basal pair arising 2 cm. from the base and marginally 
E eurving to above the middle of the lamina, the middle pair at 
| 13 least 4 em. from the base and curved to near the apex, the up- 
"m permost pair 7.5 em. from the base and confluent with the mid- 
vein in the apex, cross bars faint yet quite evident from both 
sides; axillary hairs 5 mm. long, soft, light straw brown. In- 
florescence from near the base of the stem or stems, clustered 
H on gnarly ligneous tubercles 1.5 dm. long, more or less branched, 
t the ultimate ones ascendingly curved; rachis of the spikes flex- 
1 ible, green and lenticelled, compressed, glabrous, flower bearing 
ur : toward the distal end or one half; flowers imbricately subtended 
i by glabrous elliptically oblong bracts; pedicels also glabrous, 
5 mm. long, subterete, constricted toward the base, subtended 
by an erect linearly ultimately recurved bract; calyx slightly 
longer, obscurely angular, the 3 mm. deep rim truncate or broad- 
ly 5-apiculate and faintly 5-nerved, also glabrous; petals 4 or 5, 
about 10 mm. long, very delicate, aurantiacus or orange red, 
oblongish, 3.5 mm. wide, irregularly truncate at apex, base very 
broad, veiny; stamens 10; filaments 6 mm. long, dilated and 
toward the base adnate to the corolla, yellowish; anthers 3.5 
mm. long, a trifle curved, yellow, elongate, the dorsal side with 
a slender 1.5 mm. long spur, dorsifixed, with a pair of thick as- 
cendingly curved pair of spurs; style terete, likewise glabrous, 
9 mm. long, terminated by a small capitate stigma, curved mainly 
toward the top; ovary conical and glabrous. 
Type specimen 9934, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete (Cuernos 
Mts.), Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, April, 1908. 
Gathered from wet seepage cliffs at 3000 feet altitude along 
the Bonyao river. Rare, and was called by the local Visayan 
“Hogno-pili-pagon.”’ 
It is closely related to M. cauliflora Merr. from the same 
island. Our leaves are larger with different bases and drying 
blackish brown. There are also minor floral differences. 
Medinilla calelanensis Elm. n. sp. 
Shrub; stem 5 em. thick, 3 to 4 m. high, branched from 
