1226 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, ArT. 66 
arising 5 em. from the base and confluent with the midvein a 
trifle below the apical point; cross bars faint and oblique, more 
conspicuous from the upper side in the dry state; petioles very 
thick, 1 em. long, nearly as wide, much flattened; axillary beard 
cremeus, subpersistent, soft, 1 to 3 cm. long, dense. Inflorescence 
succulent; peduncle from the leaf axils or lateral, descendingly 
curved, 1 to 2 dm. long in the flowering state, glabrous and 
flesh red, the flowering portion about as long as the peduncle, 
racemosely paniculate, pendant, all the bracts, stalks and calyces 
pink; branvhlets in verticels, 2 to 4 cm. long, subtended by broad- 
ly oblong bracts 1 to 1.5 cm. in length, flower bearing or occasion- 
ally branched at the distal end; flowers umbellately clustered 
usually from short secondary branchlets, subtended by smaller 
glabrous bracts; pedicels 5 to 8 mm. long; calyx 5 mm. long, sub- 
campanulate, rim perfectly truncate; petals 5, obovately oblong, 
7.5 mm. long, 5 mm. wide above the middle, apex rounded, also 
whitish or red when young; stamens 10; filaments of the same 
color, 5 mm. long, compressed; anthers linear lanceolate, 3 mm. 
long, the connective extended into a short and descending dorsal 
spur at the base, the pair of ventral lobes or spurs very broad, 
basifixed at the yellowish base, otherwise purplish blue; style 
terete, 8 mm. long, glabrous, slightly curved, faintly striate, 
stigma small and capitate; globose fruits blue or purple. 
Type specimens 11466* and 7761, A. D. E. Elmer, the former 
from Todaya (Mt. Apo), Distriet of Davao, Mindanao, August, 
1909; the latter from Lueban (Mt. Banahao), Province of Tayabas, 
Luzon, May, 1907. 
Reclining upon horizontal large limbs, trunks and even upon 
raised roots of the densely moss and scale moss laden elfinwoods 
in cold wet depressions at 6000 feet of both of mounts Apo and 
Banahao. 
Only the foliage reminds one of M. amplifolia Merr. which 
may be the same as M. magnijolia Lindl. It is more distantly 
related to M. cumingii Naud. 
Medinilla cordatifolia Elm. n. sp. 
Epiphytie shrub; stem and main branches 2.5 em. thick, 
terete, sparingly rebranched; the crooked twigs slender and de- 
scending, flattened, green except the dry wings, their tips ascend- 
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