344 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY EVOL. VIL, Agr. 1i! 
MEARNSIA Merr. 
Mearnsia halconensis Merr. 
Field.note:—Small erect and burly tree on the summit of 
a wind swept rocky peak of the Masay or Urdaneta group of 
mountains at 5750 feet; stem 6 inches thick, terete, nearly straight, 
branched at the top, only 20 feet high; wood heavy and very 
hard, sappy white on the outside, gradually changing to the 
reddish brown center; bark dull brown and scaling in linear 
plates, that on the branches gray and smooth; branchlets 
numerous, erect, forming dense masses; leaves ascending, flat, 
paler beneath, the thickened margins appearing recurved, 
rigidly coriaceous; infrutescence in dense clusters, lateral; calyx 
angular and green, with deep red glandular spots, usually 
eanescent toward the base on the outside; corolla light or 
pale purple, the interlaced stamens with the anthers pur- 
pureus; style of the same color, the calyx cup very dull red; 
fruits dry and persistent, angularly ridged, bearing the 4 
blunt apical teeth, dehiscing by breaking through the walls 
between the ridges; seeds brown, 1 mm long, linear, more point- 
ed toward one end, very numerous in each of the 4 carpels. 
"Magadhingan" in Manobo. 
Represented by number 13759, Elmer, Cabadbaran (Mt. 
Ur laneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, September, 1912. 
Quite common on the summit ridges. Its profuse brilliant 
red flowers are showy objects among the otherwise somber 
forest vegetation. This is the first collection made besides 
the type on mount Halcon. 
RHODOMYRTUS (DC.) Reichb. 
Rhodomyrtus surigaoense Elm. n. sp. 
Rigid shrub or small burly trees; stem 7 cm thick, 5 
m high, chiefly branched toward the top; branches stout, 
rigid, crooked, subterete; the twigs rather lax and ascend- 
ingly curved, subterete, ashy gray tomentulose; wood hard, 
covered with smooth grayish white bark, whitish on the 
outside, brownish or reddish | brown toward the center. 
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