1224 LEAFLETS oF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Art. 66 
or cymosely spreading from below the middle, 3 to 5 em. long, 
the rachis densely reddish hairy; flowers in 2 to 3 whorls; pedicels 
very slender, 7.5 mm. long, subtended by rather broad veiny 
bracts yellowish white hairy on the back; the pair of subtending 
bracts of the berries are only sparsely hairy on the back; young 
fruit dark green, the truncate glabrous apex reddish, otherwise 
covered with dense dull silky white hairs. 
Type specimen 11740, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, September, 1909. 
Discovered in rich moist soil of dense forests at 3500 feet 
altitude, on the south side of the Baruring river. “Tiwalos” 
is the native Bagobo name. 
This species with the two preceding and several other Phil- 
ippine species form a very natural group. Ours seems to be most 
closely related to M. involucrata Merr. 
Medinilla confluentinervia Elm. n. sp. 
Epiphytic shrub; stem 3 to 4 m. long, ascending or horizontal, 
crookedly rebranched, terete; wood moderately hard, whitish 
or reddish tinged in the center, without odor or taste; bark yel- 
lowish brown, checked; twigs suberect, purplish, angular but 
not winged. Leaves coriaceous, glabrous, opposite, dull deep 
green above, much lighter green or even yellowish so beneath, 
the entire margins crinkled and minutely revolute in the dry 
state, elliptic to elliptically oblong, rigidly coriaceous, the average 
ones 2 dm. long by 1 dm. wide at the middle, apex rather broad, 
conical or broadly obtuse and terminated into an abrupt and 
sharply acute to acuminate point, base broadly obtuse and sub- 
auriculate; midvein prominently raised beneath, with 3 pairs 
of lateral veins, the large blades with a short basal additional 
pair; upper pair arising 4 em. from the base and confluent with 
the midvein 4 cm. from the apex, the middle pair arising 1.5 
em. from the base and confluent with the midvein 1 em, from 
the apex or just at the base of the slender tip, the lower pair 
arising 5 mm. above the base and running parallel with the 
margin to above the middle of the lamina; petiole very stout, 
5 mm. long, also glabrous; beard grayish, 7.5 mm. long, not dense, 
becoming nearly glabrate. Inflorescence suberect, terminal, 
—€—— peduncle terete, deep red and streaked with green, 
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