1228 k LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Arr. 66 
Approaching M. clementis Merr. but leaves broader, more 
nerved and distinctly cordate at base. 
Medinilla robinsonii Elm. n. sp. 
Seandent shrub; branches crookedly rebranched, 1.5 em. 
thick, the ultimate ones comparatively short, more or less gnarly, 
young portions thin, subterete and brown pulverulent. Leaves 
eoriaceous, curing unequally dull brown on the 2 sides, opposite, 
mostly toward the ends of the twigs, flat or only the acute apex 
reeurved, base obtuse to subeuneate, the entire margins subinvolute 
in the dry state, much paler or lighter green beneath, the larger 
laminae 7.5 em. long, 3.5 em. wide across the middle or above 
the middle, elliptieally oblong in number 9826 and obovately 
oblong in number 112542; midvein dark brown, conspicuous 
beneath, with 2 lateral pairs, the basal pair arising 2 mm. from 
the base and extending nearly to the apex, the upper lateral 
pair arising 5 mm. from the base and uniting at the apex with 
the midvein, cross bars obsolete; petiole at least 5 mm. long, 
brown puberulent. Inflorescence or infrutescence occasionally 
terminal but usually lateral upon slender 1 to 3 cm. long scurfy 
brown peduncles, few to severally flowered at the distal end, 
occasionally short branched; branchlets or pedicels subtended 
by a subpersistent whorl of bracts which are oblong in shape and 
vary from 5 to 8 mm. in length; pedicels for flowers short and sub- 
tended by a pair of similar bracts, very finely brown puberulent, 
ultimately glabrate; calyx in flower 8 mm. long by 6 mm. thick, 
cup shaped, smooth, hard; petals pinkish, 5, abruptly narrowed 
at the base, otherwise obliquely oblong, rather thick and some- 
what rugose on the upper side, 1.5 em. long, nearly 1 em. wide 
across the middle; stamens 10, one half of which are sterile; 
filaments of the fertile ones subterete, 5 mm. long, narrowed at 
the apex, smooth or sprinkled with minute reddish brown len- 
ticels; anthers as long, sharply pointed and gradually tapering ` 
from base to apex, the connective at the base produced into a 
short descending dorsal spur, the ventral pair of lobes or spurs 
very blunt and rather broad, occasionally sprinkled with reddish 
brown lenticels; style terete, 1 cm. long, strict, dotted with red- 
dish lenticels; stigma small and terminal. 
Type specimen 9826, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete (Cuernos 
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