1214 2 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Arr. 66 
ascendingly curved, basal portion light yellow, otherwise purplish 
blue; style white, terete, nearly straight, 1.5 cm. long, tapering 
toward the minute capitate stigma. 
Type specimens 11311 and 10900, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya 
(Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, August and June re- 
spectively, 1909. 
Forming loosely tangled masses 20 feet above the moist 
humus covered ground in forested flats at 4000 feet altitude. 
'""Tiwalos" is the Bagobo name for both numbers. An elegant 
species, with pink or rose red flowers occasionally measuring two 
inches across ! 
Medinilla versicolor Eim. n. sp. 
Erect shrub; stem 7.5 cm. thick, 3 mm. high; wood rather 
soft, pinkish white; bark yellowish brown, checked; branches 
slender and lax, widely spreading, the young portion subterete 
and brown pulverulent. Leaves horizontal or descending, the 
abruptly acute apex recurved, entire margins crinkled and faintly 
involute, base cuneate to obtuse, glabrous, velvety dark green 
on the upper side, yellowish green beneath, subcoriaceous, flat, 
murinus gray on the upper side when dry, beneath brownish, 
the 2 opposing leaves quite a little unequal in size, elliptically 
oblongish, the larger blades 1 dm. long by one half as wide across 
the middle, scattered along the twigs, midvein prominent beneath, 
dirty brown scaly, finally glabrate, with 2 lateral pairs of veins; 
the finer basal pair from 3 mm. above the base and extending 
nearly to the apex, the other pair arising 2 em. above the base 
and arehed into the apieal point, eross bars relatively faint yet 
quite evident from the nether side; petiole 1.25 em. long, brown- 
ish, ultimately glabrous, eaniculate along the upper side. Panicle 
sparingly branched from below the middle, 5 em. long, terminal 
or from the uppermost leaf axils, ascending; peduncles green 
except the brown puberulence; branches shorter, otherwise sim- 
ilar, more or less angled; pedicels terete, 5 mm. long, slightly 
brown scurfy; calyx suburceolate, 5 mm. long, yellowish or 
with a pink truncate or simply apiculate apex; petals 5, nar- 
rowed toward the base, 7.5 mm. long, obliquely obovate, 5 mm. 
wide above the middle, creamy white; stamens 10; filaments 
slender, 4 mm. long, smooth and glabrous; anther basifixed, 
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