1218 : LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Arr. 66 
with 5 mm. long whitish filaments; anther bases light yellow, 
the dorsal apical portion washblue, slenderly tapering, 1 to 2 
mm. longer than the filaments, the dorsal spur descending and 
1 mm. long, the ventral pair very thick and ascendingly curved; 
style terete, bearing a minute capitate stigma, as long as the 
stamens; young fruits 1 em. across, narrowed about the rim, red. 
Type specimen 10533, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, May, 1909. 
This Medinilla inhabits wet fertile soil thickly covered with 
humus in dense woods or forest at 4250 feet, south of the Sibulan 
river and along the trail to Baclayan. ''Diwalos" is the Bagobo 
name. 
Probably related to M. annulata C. B. Rob. and to my pre- 
ceding species. 
Medinilla gitingensis Elm. n. sp. 
Shrubby; stem solitary or few from the same root cluster, 
7.5 em. thick, 4 m. long, branched from below the middle; wood 
quite hard, brittle, reddish tinged especially the heartwood, 
odorless, tasteless or a trifle bitter; bark thick, dull gray and 
checked; branches numerous, lax, with ascending tips, the green 
young portion subterete and glabrous. Leaves in whorls of 3, 
triplinerved, ascending or horizontal, nearly flat, gracefully re- 
curved, leathery, deep green above, much paler beneath, when 
dry ardesiacus above and avellaneus on the nether side, entire 
edges slightly recurved, lanceolate or lanceolately fusiform, grad- 
ually tapering toward the acuminate apex, base cuneate and 
occasionally inequilateral, blades 1.5 dm. long by 2.5 em. wide 
across the middle, glabrous; midvein reddish beneath toward 
the base, the only lateral pair of veins arising 1 cm. from the 
base and faintly extending into the apex, cross bars none; petiole 
red and glabrous, 2 cm. long. Panicle terminal, ascending, 1 to 
2 dm. long, glabrous and rose red; branches slender, verticellately 
spreading, rebranched from above the middle, all branches sub- 
tended by setaceous-like bracts; pedicels 5 to 10 mm, long, very 
slender, glabrous; calyx reddish, 5 mm. long, urceolate, with a 
truncate rim, more or less tuberculate in the dry state; petals 4, 
rose red or whitish, 15 mm. long by one half as wide across the 
middle, obliquely oblong, veiny; stamens 8; filaments 8 mm. long, 
