NoveMBER 29, 1911] NEW MELASTOMATACEAE 1225 
1 to 2 dm. long, occasionally single but usually 3; the flowering 
portion at least as long as the peduncle, its rachis angular; branch- 
es verticellate, lighter red, compressed, brown pulverulent, finally 
glabrate, the larger ones few and short branched at the end, 
subtended by oblong 1 em. long puberulent red bracts; pedicels 
r l em. long, terete, pink, only slightly thickened toward the 
» distal end, usually subtended toward the base with a single or 
| pair of bracteoles; calyx pinkish white, short campanulate, 
| 4 mm. long, rim truncate; petals rose red, 5, oblongish, 1.25 
| em. long; stamens 10, one half of them a trifle shorter; the fila- 
ments whitish especially toward the base, 4.5 mm. long, dilated; 
anthers nearly as long, gradually tapering from the base toward 
| the purplish blue tip, basifixed, at the yellow base with a single 
i dorsal spur and a pair of ventral rather blunt spurs; style also 
whitish, 1 cm. long, terete, bearing a minute stigma; young 
fruit 5 mm. in diameter, bearing a constricted cupular rim. 
Type specimen 11469, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, August, 1909. 
Inhabits humid forests of flat somewhat swampy soil at 
Am 6000 feet of mount Apo. The Bagobos call it “Calambug- 
3 lambug."' 
| The confluent nerves distinguish it from all other Philip- 
pine species. 
Medinilla banahaensis Elm. n. sp. 
Subepiphytie shrubs; stems usually few to several, ascending 
or drooping, 1 to 2 m. long, crookedly rebranched, terete; wood 
pale white, odorless, moderately hard, bark gray or brown, finely 
checked; twigs suberect, strongly 4-angled and 4-winged. Leaves 
ascendingly curved at the base, coriaceous, dull green above, much 
lighter beneath, opposite, flat, glabrous, 3 dm. long by 13 em. 
wide at the middle, the entire margins crinkled and a trifle in- 
E volute in the dry state, terminated by a short abrupt acute point, 
> € elliptically elongated, curing brownish on both sides, base roundly 
: obtuse; midvein glabrous, prominently raised beneath; lateral 
veins 3 on each side, the basal or smallest pair arising 5 mm. from 
the base and extending along the margin to above the middle of 
the blade, the middle pair arising 1.5 cm. from the base and usual- 
ly uniting with the midvein in the apex, the upper or bolder pair 
