NoveMBER 29, 1911] New MELASTOMATACEAE 1227 
ingly curved; wood soft, with a large green pith, odorless and taste- 
less; bark brown, coarsely lenticelled. Leaves descending, sub- 
chartaceous, flat, much paler green beneath, curing dull greenish 
gray, mostly opposite, the entire margins minutely involute, 
glabrous, the larger blades 2 dm. long, 9 cm. wide below the 
» middle, ovately oblong or the smaller ones oblongish, gradually 
coming to the sharply acute apex, base cordate; veins glabrous, 
prominently raised, with 3 or 4 lateral pairs, the basal or fourth 
pair arising from the base and extending toward the middle of 
the blade, the next upper pair arising from the same place and 
extending to above the middle, the next arising 5 mm. above 
the base and extending nearly to the apex, the upper pair aris- 
ing 2 em. from the base and confluent with the midvein in the 
apical point; petiole 1.5 to 3 cm. long, very thick, glabrous, 
striate along the upper side; beard profuse, 1.5 em. long, shin- 
ing brown. Inflorescence terminal; peduncle striate, glabrous, 
subpendulous, 1 to 2 dm. long, reddish; racemose inflorescence 
shorter than the peduncle; branches verticellate, red, spread- 
ing, the larger 2 em. long, occasionally short branched at the 
distal end, subtended by bracts and with crisp brown hairs in 
the axils; pedicels terete, pink, few clustered at the ends, 1 em. 
long, a trifle thicker toward the distal end; calyx suburceolate, 
5 mm. long, with a 2 mm. wide truncate rim; petals pale pink, 
1 em. long, 5, oblongish and with obliquely truncate apices; 
stamens 10, all equal and fertile, inflexed in the bud state; fila- 
ments whitish, narrowed at the apex, compressed and adnate 
toward the base upon the corolla, 4.5 mm. long, anthers basi- 
fixed, equal in length, lanceolately linear, on the dorsal side of 
the yellow base with a very short and strict spur, the ventral 
pair of curved spurs very thick and in the young state more or 
less united, dark blue toward the apex; style straight, exceeding 
the stamens, whitish toward the base, reddish toward the small 
capitate stigma; fruiting stalks all red, berries dull blue, 7.5 mm. 
in diameter, globose except the narrowed calyx rim. 
Type specimen 10890», A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, June, 1909. 
This species was discovered about tree trunks 15 feet from 
the humid soil in a deep forested flat at 4000 feet, south of the 
Baruring river. The Bagobo gave me the name ‘‘Manago.” 
