NoveMBER 29, 1911] New MELASTOMATACEAE 1217 
duncle subtended by brown bristles, 3 to 8 cm. long, terete, 
glabrous, strict; fruits umbellately clustered at the end of the 
peduncle, subglobose, dark red to purplish blue, 7.5 mm. across, 
3 with a cupular rim; pedicels glabrous, 1.25 cm. long, strict, 
E subtended by glabrous linearly oblong bracts; seeds indefinite, 
L smooth, clavate, 1 mm. long, straw brown except the blackish 
lateral side. 
Type specimen 7584, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban (Mt. Banahao), 
Provinee of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1907. 
Discovered in deep woods near cliffs at 3000 feet of mount 
Banahao. Rare! 
Distinguished from M. annulata C. B. Rob. by the short 
strict peduncle and other characters of the leaves. 
Medinilla pumilis Elm. n. sp. 
A low and laxly sparingly branched shrub; stem terete, 1 cm. 
| thick, 4 to 6 dm. long, covered with brown lenticelled yellowish 
E- gray bark. Leaves ascending, flat, thinly coriaceous, deep green 
m — above, light green beneath, griseus gray when dry, entire, gla- 
brous, opposite, oblongish, the larger blades 2 dm. long by 6 em. 
wide across the middle, apex abruptly constricted into a very 
narrow and sharply acuminate point, base occasionally a trifle 
inequilateral and broadly obtuse; midvein deep brown beneath, 
conspicuous, also glabrous; lateral pairs of veins 3, the faint basal 
pair arising 3 mm. from the base and submarginal to the middle 
of the blade, the middle pair arising 1.5 cm. from the base and 
uniting with the midvein in the apex, the upper or boldest pair 
arising 5 em. from the base and confluent with the other veins at 
the base of the sharply pointed apex, cross bars very faint ; petiole 
glabrous, caniculate along the upper side, the larger 2 cm. long. 
Inflorescence or infrutescence along the stem and few branched; 
í peduncle 5 em. long, usually curved or subpendant, glabrous, 
E r reddish, flower bearing at the apex or short branched; pedicels 
, e 5 mm. long or longer, umbellately clustered at the distal ends, 
| usually subtended by deciduous bracteoles; calyx campanulate, 
6 mm. long, 5 mm. wide, the rim slightly expanded; petals prob- 
ably 5, thin, pale red, deciduous, irregularly oblique, 1.25 em. 
long, nearly one half as wide, oblongish, obscurely lobed on the 
side below the middle; stamens probably 10; the 5 fertile ones 
