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NovEMBER 29, 1911] NEW MELASTOMATACEAE 1223 
axillary or lateral, pendulous, 3 to 8 em. long; spike flower 
bearing from below the middle, covered with numerous reddish 
bristles which with age become yellowish gray; flowers arranged 
in 1 to 3 whorls, subtended by ovate to broadly lanceolate 
|- bracts which are similarly hairy on the outside; pedicels at 
r least 5 mm. long, very setose; petals pink, deciduous, 1.25 em. 
long, oblong, with the widest portion toward the truncate apex, 
veiny; calyx bristly setose, the apiculate rim somewhat dilated, 
glabrous on the upper side; filaments whitish, glabrous, flattened 
especially toward the base, 4.5 em. long; anther as long, nearly 
straight, gradually tapering from base to apex, basifixed, with 
a short blunt dorsal spur and a pair of larger and somewhat 
| curved ventral spurs, the basal portion yellow, tips red; ovary 
f woolly; style 10 mm. long, glabrous, subterete, red; stigma 
flattened, terminal; fruits dark green. 
Type specimen 10537, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, May, 1911. 
This low shrub was discovered in moist fertile soil of a 
densely forested basin at 4250 feet along the trail from Todaya 
to Baclayan. The Bagobos know it as ‘‘Tiwalas-ta-tana.”’ 
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Medinilla attenuata Elm. n. sp. 
A low and lax shrub; stem the size of a small pencil, terete, 
1 m. high, branched, the ultimate ones isabellinus hairy. Leaves 
horizontally spreading, flat, subcoriaceous, only the sharply 
i acuminate tips recurved, dull deep green above, much lighter 
so beneath, dirty brown when dry, the entire margins crinkled 
in the dry state, base broadly alternate or subpandurate, beneath 
crisply hairy especially along the veins, the upper surface glabrate, 
opposite or in 3’s, quite unequal in size, the largest blades 1.5 
dm. long, 4 cm. wide above the middle, obovately oblong or broad- 
j ly oblanceolate for the smaller ones which only measure 6 cm. 
: a long by 2 cm. wide, veins of 3 lateral pairs besides the midvein, 
F the upper pair of lateral veins arising 5 cm. above the base of 
the blade and extending into the apex, the middle pair 2.5 cm. 
from the base and arching toward the apex, the basal pair 1 em. 
from the base and submarginally running to above the middle 
of the blade; petiole thick, only a few mm. long, densely bearded. 
Inflorescence along the branches, divaricate or pendant, racemose 
Te at eee NS REETTA 
EMAS, a a aana 
