1216 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Arr. 66 
shorter than the peduncle, in subwhorls, all stalks striate, green 
and covered with fine umber scales; pedicels 3 mm. long, thick, 
densely scurfy, usually 1 to 3-clustered from the distal ends of 
the branchlets; calyx cupular, 5 mm. high, truncate, green 
and covered with a fine rusty brown pulverulence; petals 5, 
white or tinged with red, rotately twisted, 1 cm. long, veiny at 
the narrowed base, otherwise obliquely oblong, one half as wide 
at the middle; stamens 10; filaments subterete, 4 mm. long, whi- 
tish, glabrous; anthers basifixed, 37mm. long, linear, the con- 
nective extended at the base into a 1 mm. long dorsal spur, 
the blunt ventral pair ascendingly curved, the upper portion blue, 
otherwise yellow; style 9 mm. long, terete, strict, smooth and 
glabrous, bearing a small stigma; young fruits hard, green, 
globose, 1 cm. in diameter. 
Type specimen 11496, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, August, 1909. 
Discovered in very moist sand gravelly soil of a densely 
wooded ravine along the Cati creek of mount Apo at 6000 feet. 
The natives or Bagobos know it as “Calayan.” 
Like the preceding it is allied to M. astronioides Tri. 
Medinilla brevipedunculata Elm. n. sp. 
A laxly creeping or subscandent shrub; stem twining, spar- 
ingly branched, terete, root-like, the young portion covered with 
badius colored bristles and 5 mm. thick, taking root at the joints. 
Leaves opposite, only a few scattered pairs, equal, subcoriaceous, 
paler beneath, glabrous, ardesicus when dry, oblong, gradually 
tapering toward the abruptly acuminate and recurved apex, 
base usually equilateral and acute to short obtuse, entire, blades 
2 dm. long by 7.5 em. wide across the middle, frequently larger 
and occasionally smaller; midvein very bold and in the early 
state setose; lateral pairs of nerves 3, all glabrate, the upper pair 
arising from near the middle and uniting with the middle one at 
the base of the apical point, the middle pair submarginally ex- 
tending clear into the apex, the basal pair arising 1 cm. from 
the base and running along the margin to above the middle of 
the lamina, eross bars distinet; petiole very stout, ultimately 
glabrous, 3 to 4 em. long; hairs in the leaf axils especially dense 
and numerous.  Infrutescence mostly lateral, pendulous; pe- 
