NOVEMBER 29, 1911] New MELASTOMATACEAE 1221 
at about the middle of the blade; petiole 1.5 cm. long, very thick 
and compressed, obscurely winged, striate along the lower side; 
axillary brush caespitose, 5 mm. long, brown and glabrous. In- 
frutescent spike terminal, pendulous, 2.5 dm. long, slender, gla- 
brous, reddish to blue, subtended at or toward the base by brown 
linear lanceolate 1 cm. long bracts; branches short, subverticellate, 
e all glabrous and of the same color, subcompressed, subtended 
; by bracteoles; fruits in small umbellate clusters at the distal 
end of the secondary branchlets; pedicels 1 em. long, strict, also 
glabrous; immature fruits ovoidly globose, with a truneate rim 
7.5 mm. across, reddish blue. 
Type specimen 8635, A. D. E. Elmer, Baguio (Mt. Santo 
Tomas), Province of Benguet, Luzon, March, 1907. 
Sprawling over large bowlders of stream beds or upon lime- 
stone outcropping of the pine region at 5000 feet. 
Closely related to M. dolichophylla Merr. but leaves larger 
and more numerously nerved. More distantly related to M. 
clementis of the same author. 
vit A as eee 
seges 
e > Medinilla cuernosensis Elm. n. sp. 
Scandent; branches terete, grayish white, with brown len- 
; ticels, the terminal ones densely covered with fine setae-like hairs, 
testaceus in color. Leaves flat, horizontally spreading or de- 
scending, only the young ones erect, much lighter green: beneath, 
opposite, the pair very unequal in size, greenish brown when dry, 
margins entire, submembranous, gradually tapering into the acu- 
minate apex, base rounded or obtuse, the largest blades 1 dm. 
long by 4 em. long and ovate or ovately oblong in shape, soft, 
setosely hairy on both sides; veins more evident from below, 
brown, densely avellaneus bristly, usually only 3 pairs but the 
larger leaves with an extra basal pair; the upper pair arising 3 
em. from the base and extending into the apex, the middle pair 
arising 1.5 em, from the base and extending nearly to the apex, 
the lower pair arising 1 cm. from the base and extending to above 
the middle of the lamina, the basal or obscure pair arising 2 to 
3 mm. above the base and extending to above the middle of the 
lamina, all subparallel, the small blades with only 2 or 3 lateral 
pairs of veins; petiole of the larger blades 1 cm. long, densely 
hairy, that of the smaller blades only one third as long. Inflor- 
