1222 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Arr. 66 
escence usually from the axils of the smaller leaves, ascending, 
1 to 3 em. long, few paniculately branched from below the middle 
or only pedicelled; peduncle slender, testaceus hairy, pedicels 
divaricate, 5 mm. long, subtended by ovate or oblongish lan- 
ceolate setose bracts which in age become reddish; petals 5, del- 
icate, whitish, truncately oblong, veiny, deciduous; calyx rim 
dilated, 5, apiculate; stamens 10, equal, easily falling; filaments 
4 mm. long, glabrous, somewhat dilated; anthers equalling the 
filaments, basifixed, pinkish toward the acuminate tips, the basal 
portion light yellow, the dorsal spur very blunt, the pair of ventral 
spurs much longer and ascendingly. curved; style terete, reddish, 
glabrous, usually curved, terminated by a small capitate stigma; 
the upper portion of the ovary free and sparsely hairy; berry 
globose, deep green, covered with bristly whitish hairs. 
Type specimen 10227, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete (Cuernos 
Mts.), Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, June, 1908. 
Lax bushes upon tree trunks 10 feet from the ground in 
humid woods at 4250 feet altitude. 
This as well as the next species are allies of M. invol- 
ucrata Merr. 
Medinilla erythrotricha Elm. n. sp. 
Lax and suberect undershrub; stem 1 to 1.5 m. high, green, 
becoming yellowish gray, terete, 1.25 em. thick, the few branch- 
lets bristly covered with reddish or latericius hairs. Leaves 
subcoriaceous, horizontally spreading, the abrupt and very sharply 
pointed tips recurved, dark green above, much paler beneath, the 
lower leaves usually in pairs, the uppermost in whorls of 3, quite 
unequal in size, drying unequally brown on the upper and lower 
side, entire, both sides covered with reddish hairs, the larger 
blades 1.5 dm. long, 6.5 em. wide across the middle, base obtusely 
rounded or occasionally subauriculate, elliptic to elliptic oblong, 
the smaller blades 6 em. long by 3.5 cm. wide; midvein densely 
setose beneath, the 3 lateral pairs similar; the upper pair of 
lateral veins arising 3.5 em. from the base and extending into 
the apical point, the middle pair 1.5 em. from the base and 
curving nearly to the apex, the basal pair arising 5 mm. from 
the base of the blade and extending to about the middle; petiole 
very short and thick, testaceus, bristly. Inflorescence terminal, 
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