1220 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Arr. 
rim and free from the petals, similarly colored, compressed or 
dilated, glabrous, 5 mm. long; anthers 7 mm. long, light yellow 
especially toward the base, thin, horns bluish purple, slenderly 
tapering from base to the rather sharply pointed tips, dorsal 
spur very short, the ventral pair curved, 1 mm. long, blunt and 
united below the middle, pulverulent or finely papillose along the 
basal dorsal side of the strongly curved anther, otherwise smooth 
and glabrous; style 8 mm. long, terete, glabrous, red, doubly 
curved, terminated by a minute capitate and finely granular 
stigma. 
Type specimen 11249, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, July, 1909. 
Collected from tree trunks 15 feet from the ground in a forest- 
ed ridge of well drained soil at 3250 feet of mount Burebid. 
Named after Mr. E. D. Merrill, who has done considerable work 
on our Philippine Melastomataceae. ''Cayaupang" is the Ba- 
gobo name. 
Number 11487 from Apo is typical M. elmeri Merr. which 
is very close to M. pendula Merr. Both are based upon my 
numbers 5848 and 6037, collected in March 1904 at Baguio. 
Our present new species has only triplinerved leaves, the leaf 
axils are without the bearded bristles and has entirely different 
flowers. 
Medinilla subdolichophylla Elm. n. sp. 
A shrub, 2 to 3 m. high, numerously and crookedly branch- 
ed, forming spreading bushes; ultimate branchlets slender, gray 
or yellowish so, compressed, conspieuouly winged along the edges, 
the young portion green and glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, op- 
posite, widely scattering, glabrous, drying grayish green, condu- 
plicate on the upper darker yet more shining green surface, entire, 
the slenderly acuminate apex recurved, the larger blades measure 
3 dm. long by 6 cm. wide below the middle, narrowly oblong to 
broadly lanceolate, base obtuse or rounded, cross bars more 
evident on the upper side in the dry state at least; midvein con- 
spicuous on both sides, brown and glabrous, the primary pairs of 
lateral veins arising 5 em. above the base and are confluent with 
the midvein at about the base of the apical point, the secondary 
pair arising 1 em. from the base and gradually becoming obsolete 
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