1212 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Arr. 66 
Its affinities are with M. cordata Merr. based upon my 
number 5805 from mount Santo ,Tomas, province of Ben- 
guet. 
Medinilla bagobo Elm. n. sp. 
Scandent shrub; stem 5 em. thick, terete, crooked, numerously 
branched at the top; wood whitish, soft, odorless and tasteless; 
bark thick, yellowish brown, coarsely checked; branches freely 
rebranched, thickened at the joints, the slender twigs green 
and ascending, subterete, glabrous even the young tips. Leaves 
thinly coriaceous, also glabrous, opposite, acute at apex, cuneate 
at base, quite variable in size, oblong to obovately oblong, entire, 
curing dull brown beneath and nearly black on the upper side, 
the larger blades 12.5 em. long by 5 em. wide across the middle; 
midvein yellowish gray beneath, pronounced, glabrous, with 
2 lateral pairs; the basal pair arising 5 mm. from the base and 
becoming obscure toward the end of the blade, the bolder or 
upper pair arising 1.5 em. from the base and extending clear 
into the apex, cross bars none; petiole slender, 1.5 to 2.5 em. 
long, glabrous, caniculate along the upper side. Inflorescence 
lateral, profuse; peduncles green, 1.5 to 3 em. long, usually in 
whorls, glabrate, occasionally few and short branched at the distal 
end, more or less angled; pedicels eurved, slender, 1 em. long, 
striate, also glabrate, red; calyx campanulate, 7.5 mm. long, 
with a red nearly truncate rim; petals 4, pink or whitish when 
old, rotately spreading, obovately oblong, veiny, 1.25 em. long, 
one half as wide above the middle; stamens 8, about 6 mm. long, 
glabrous, whitish, more or less dilated; anther very oblique or 
transverse, 2 mm. long including the spurs, thick, obliquely 
truncate at apex, the dorsal curved spur slender and 1 mm. long, 
the pair of opposite spurs very thick and blunt, subbasifixed, 
pink except the light yellow base; style 9 mm. long, terete, with 
a small capitate stigma. 
Type specimen 11617, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Distriet of Davao, Mindanao, September, 1909. 
In humid forests of very moist fertile soil at 3750 feet 
altitude. The natives or Bagobos call it “Bagobo” as they do 
some other species of this family. 
