996 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BorANY [Vor. III, Arr. 54 
by the Bagobos ''Buyan." Remarkable in its numerous 
stout nerves, laciniate calyx segments and sericeous corolla. 
Far from, yet nearest to M. philippinensis Merr. of our 
Philippine species. 
Mussaenda magallanensis Elm. n. sp. 
Lax shrub; stem 3 to 5 cm. thick, 4 m. high; branch- 
es arising from below the middie, widely spreading, laxly 
rebranched; the twigs terete, green and yellowish brown, 
pilose; wood very soft, whitish, odorless and tasteless, with 
a large snow white pith; bark yellowish, green beneath 
the epidermis, only obscurely lenticelled. Leaves soft mem- 
branous, lucid green above, much paler beneath, curved upon 
the upper side in hot days, otherwise flat, mostly horizontal, 
opposite, scattering along the branchlets, the larger ones 2.5 
dm. long, 1 dm. wide across the middle, quite variable in 
size, mostly elliptic, the smaller ones oblong, entire, abruptly 
acuminate at the apex, base cuneate to obtuse, drying green, 
both sides with dirty white or brownish hairs especially the 
lower surface in the young state; petiole brown pilose, usually 
under 8 cm. in length; lateral veins pinnate, 15 to 18 on 
each side, subparallel, little curved, quite conspicuous be- 
neath, connected by faint cross bars; stipules soft, dry, brown 
and densely hairy, subpersistent, entire or few laciniate, 
acuminate from a broad base, 12.5 mm. long. Inflorescence 
terminal, corymbosely paniculate, 1.5 dm. long, nearly 
as wide, all the stalks pale to reddish brown pilose; 
bracts similarly pilose, nearly 15 mm. long, lanceolate 
with laciniate tips; flowers in small clusters, the central 
terminal one stipitate, subtended by involucral bracts; calyx 
elongated elliptic, 3 cm. long without the segments, 2 mm. 
thick, covered with hyaline septate hairs; segments 5, 
the outer ones occasionally developed into large white slen- 
derly stalked show appendages, similarly hairy, linear, 6 mm. 
long, 1 mm. wide at the base, gradually tapering to the 
fine point, 3-striate toward the base, deciduous; corolla tube 
3 cm. long, slightly inflated above the middle and pilose 
on the inner side, glabrous or with only straggling hairs, 
the valvate bud enlarged, suberect, pale yellow; lobes 4, 
rotate, 5 mm. long, broadly elliptic, united up to the 
