NOVEMBER 29, 1911] New MELASTOMATACEAE 1211 
Medinilla binaria Elm. n. sp. 
Shrub, 2 m. high, numerously branched from near the base; 
branches rigid, erect or suberect, binary, compressed, deeply 
grooved along the edges, yellowish gray except the ultimate 
: green portion, strict, glabrous, about 1 dm. long. Leaves flat, 
» dull bottle green above, much paler or subglaucous beneath, 
eaesius on the nether side when dry, the upper surface subum- 
brinus, glabrous or slightly seurfy along the sides of the veins, 
thick, rigid, easily breaking with a snap, entire, oval or elliptic 
with a short blunt point at apex, base broadly rounded and ob- 
scurely emarginate, 10 em. long by 6 em. wide across the middle 
or a trifle below it; veins 5, much more prominent on the upper side 
in the dry state, the basal pair arising 3 mm. from the base, the 
inner pair still further up, cross bars and reticulations obsolete 
beneath and conspicuous above when dry; petiole very short and 
extremely thick; axillary bristles persistent, yellowish gray, soft 
in texture, 1 em. long, numerous; buds covered with latericius 
| woolly hairs. Panicle pink, chiefly lateral but occasionally 
terminal, pendant, 1.5 dm. long, racemosely rebranched; peduncle 
5 em. long, angular, puberulent in the fluted edges, otherwise 
becoming glabrous, subtended by a brush of bristles; secondary 
branches in verticels, divaricately spreading, brown strigose, 
| binary, 2 em. long; their subtending bracts 7.5 mm. long, pul- 
j verulent, oblong, thin, their axils full of bearded bristles; calyx 
reddish, spotted with very small reddish brown scales or lenti- 
cels, the expanded rim very obscurely 4-apiculate, 5 mm. across 
the top, less in height, broadly cup shaped; petals 4, nearly 
1 cm. long, trapeziform, pink; stamens all fertile, 8; filaments 
3 mm. long, dilated especially. toward the base, whitish; anthers 
a trifle longer, gradually pointed, basifixed, with a short but 
straight spur on the basal dorsal side, the ventral pair ascend- 
ingly curved, purplish toward the apex, at the base yellowish; 
style terete, slender, 1 em. long, slightly curved and thinner at 
the stigmatic tip. 
Type specimen 9736, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete (Cuernos 
Mts.), Provinee of Negros Oriental, Negros, April, 1908. 
Among alpine moss laden shruberries on the rim of the 
shallow wet and wooded crater at 6000 feet altitude. The 
Visayan woodsman called it ‘‘Yagumum-magamai.” 
