NOVEMBER 29, 1911] New MELASTOMATACEAE 1213 
My number 10502 is typical of Dr. Copeland’s specimen 
from Zamboanga and which is marked M. copelandii Merr. This 
proposed new species is a near ally. 
xa Medinilla elegans Elm. n. sp. 
A scandent shrub, climbing along small tree trunks; stem 
3 em. thick, terete, tightly attached to its support; branches 
scattered, erookedly rebranched, rather long and slender, some- 
what drooping, the ultimate subterete ones densely covered with 
| fuligineus hairs. Leaves coriaceous, horizontally spreading, 
very abruptly acute or acuminate, base broadly obtuse or merely 
rounded, the dry entire margins slightly involute, elliptic or 
ovately so, the blades about 12.5 em. long, 7.5 em. wide across 
the middle, frequently much smaller, opposite, the upper side 
glabrous and dark shining green, yellowish green beneath and 
in the young state sprinkled with fine rusty brown scales which 
soon disappear; midvein conspicuous beneath and somewhat 
brown scurfy; the basal lateral pair of veins arising 3 mm. from 
a p the base and extending along the margin to above the middle 
iH of the blade, the middle pair arising 5 to 7.5 cm. from the base 
1 and extending into the apex, the upper pair arising 2 cm. from 
the base and also extending into the apex, all more or less seurfy 
in the early state, cross bars none; petiole varying from 1 to 5 
em. long, scurfy at first, ultimately glabrate, finely grooved along 
the upper side. Inflorescence verticellately clustered along the 
branchlets; peduncles strict, reddish, slightly ascending, 3 cm. 
long, dark brown hairy, at the base subtended by similar bristles; 
branches verticellate, strict, subtended by brown scurfy 5 mm. 
long rather linear bracts, 7.5 mm. long; true pedicels thick, 3 mm. 
long, at the base articulate and subtended by a pair of similar 
bracts, brown puberulent; calyx cup shaped, whitish, hard, with 
a ] em. wide truncate calyx rim, hardly as high, glabrous; petals 
6, arranged in a windmill fashion, whitish toward the narrowed 
and veiny base, 2 em. long, 1 em. wide, obliquely oblong or obo- 
vately so, apex pink and entire or bilobed; stamens 12; filaments 
whitish, glabrous, flattened toward the base, 7 mm. long; an- 
thers as long, eurved toward the pointed apex, slenderly tapering 
from base to apex, smooth, the descending dorsal spur 1 mm. 
long, the ventral pair of spur a trifle longer, very blunt and 
iir td a arret 
