1230 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Art. 66 
ing species from the same mountain range. The Bagobo verna- 
cular name is **Capaleli." 
Medinilla permicrophylla Elm. n. sp. 
Scandent upon small trees; stem 3 cm. thick, branched espe- 
cially toward the top, tightly cleaving to its support; wood soft, 
covered with rough grayish white bark; twigs numerous, forming 
dense bushes, suberect, faintly grooved along the sides, the young 
portion finely brown scurfy, ultimately glabrate. Leaves 
coriaceous, very copious, rotately spreading in a whorl of 4, flat, 
lucid dark green above, much paler green beneath, glabrous 
when old, sparsely pulverulent in the very young state, curing 
ater brown on the upper side and dull green beneath, margins 
thin and entire, obovate to obovately oblong to oblanceolate, 
the normal laminae 2.5 em. long, 1 cm. wide above the middle, 
apex bluntly obtuse, base cuneate; midvein dull brown, with a 
pair of lateral ones arising from the base and curving into the 
round apex, cross bars and reticulations obsolete; petiole 3 to 5 
mm. long, very slender, when young slightly scurfy brown. In- 
frutescence divaricate, suberect, lateral or axillary; peduncles 
green, one or more from the same axil, seurfy brown but ultimately 
glabrate, very slender, 1 em. long, usually bearing a solitary 
fruit; pedicels thicker especially toward the distal end, reddish, 
subtended by a pair of dark brown 2 mm. long rather linear bracts; 
fruits 5 to 8 mm. across, glabrous, subglobose, with a truncate 
pink calyx rim; petals pure white; filaments also white; anther 
tips bluish white, yellow at their bases. 
Type specimen 11226, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, July, 1909. 
Twining about a small tree trunk of a moist forested ridge 
at 3750 feet of mount Burebid. The Bagobos call it 
“Cayaupang.” 
