NOVEMBER 29, 1911] New MELASTOMATACEAE 1215 
2 mm. long, tapering from base to apex, the yellowish base with 
a descending dorsal spur and a pair of thick and blunt ventral 
pair, the dorsal apical portion pink; style terete, constricted at 
the base, 7 mm. long, tapering toward the minute stigma, both 
it and the filaments whitish and tinged with red; fruits claret red. 
Type specimen 11824, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Distriet of Davao, Mindanao, September, 1909. 
On a well drained wooded ridge at 4500 feet altitude above 
Mainit creek and on the trail to Baclayan. ‘Iwalos’” is the 
Bagobo name. 
The flowers possess a variety of colors and the dark red 
fruits coupled with the pleasingly green colored leaves is very 
pretty. Allied to M. astronioides Tri. 
Medinilla umbrina Elm. n. sp. 
A shrub; stem 5 m. high, at least 1 dm. thick, crooked and 
branched from below the middle; wood soft, reddish white in 
the center, without odor or taste; bark light yellowish gray, 
m ax roughened with lenticels or excrescences on the terete branchlets 
F- which are minutely ridged, the young tips densely covered with 
umber brown scales, laxly rebranched, the ultimate ones suberect. 
Leaves horizontally spreading, curing unequally dull brown on both 
sides, coriaceous, recurved toward the short acute to acuminate 
point, velvety, dark green above, much paler beneath, umber 
scurfy on both sides when young but finally glabrous on the upper 
side only, diverse in size, the average laminae 1.5 dm. long, 7.5 
em. wide across the middle or a trifle below it, the entire margins 
flat, elliptically oblong or ovately so, base roundly obtuse or 
seldom acute, occasionally inequilateral, young leaves latericius 
brown; midvein conspicuous beneath, umber scurfy; the upper 
pair of lateral veins arising 2 em. from the base and curving 
into the very point of the apex, the middle pair 5 mm. from the 
base and confluent with the inner pair at the apex, the basal 
pair 1 or 2 mm. from the base and curving along the margin well 
up toward the apex, cross bars numerous and conspicuous, all 
brown scurfy; petiole averaging 2 cm. long, similarly scurfy al- 
though when old glabrate. Inflorescence or infrutescence chiefly 
pendant from the branches, 5 to 8 em. long, divaricately branched 
from the middle, only sparingly rebranched, main branches 
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