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Type specimen: Xo. 148 ( Whitfoid) , Mount ^lariveles, Province of 

 Bataan, Luzon, May, 1904 (flower) ; from the same locality, No. 3222 

 (Merrill), October, 1903 (fruit); No. 1590 (Forestry Bureau), collected 

 by Borden, August, 1904 (fruit), and No. 267 (Copeland), January, 1904 

 (fruit) ; Mount Santo Tonias, Province of Benguet, Luzon, No. 0546 

 (Elmer), June, 1904 (fruit); Mount Banahao, Province of Tayabas, No. 

 935 (Wliitford), September, 1904; :\Iount Apo, District of Davao, Minda- 

 nao, No. 1027 (Copeland). April, 1904 (flower). 



A undershrub or shrub, 1 to 2 m. high, very common on exposed forested 

 ridges on Mount ]\Iariveles, from an altitude of about 900 m. to the 

 summit of the mountain. Apparently related to Medinilla myrtiformis 

 Triana, but diff"ering in its fasciculate, not cymose, inflorescence. 



(7) Medinilla myrtiformis Triana, Cogn. in DC. Monog. Phan 7:583. 



1891. Luzon, Cuming No. 753, not seen; Mindanao, Mount Apo, 

 Copeland, No. 1028. Amboinia. 



(8) Medinilla megacalyx, sp. nov. 



A scandent shrub, with coriaceous, glabrous, whorled, obovate or elliptical- 

 ovate, 3-nerved, petioled leaves, and short, terminal few-flowered cymes, 

 the flowers 5-merous, the calyx 1 cm. long. Branches light gray, glabrous, 

 terete, the ultimate branchlets dark browTi, glabrous. Leaves in whorls of 

 fours or threes, 5 to 9 cm. long, 2 to 4 cm. wide, the apex abruptly acu- 

 minate, the base cuneate; petioles 1 to 1.5 cm. long. Cymes terminal, 

 about 5 cm. long, few-flowered, the peduncles 2.5 to 3 cm. long, the pedicels 

 stout, 2 to 3 ram. long. Calyx yellowish-brown and minutely rugose when 

 dry, about 7 mm. in diameter, urceolate, truncate. Petals 5, obliquely 

 oblong, obtuse, 2 cm. long. 1 cm. wide. Stamens 10, the filaments about 8 

 mm. long, the anthers 13 mm. long. 



Tj'pe specimen No. 1514 (Forestry Bureau), Ahern's collector, Blount 

 Mariveles, Province of Bataan, Luzon, July-August, 1904. 



(9) Medinilla elmeri, sp. nov. 



A much-branched, subscandent shrub, about 3 m. high, with glabrous, 

 whorled, elliptical lanceolate, 5-nerved, petioled leaves and terminal, elon- 

 gated panicles. Branches light gray, glabrous. Leaves in whorls of three 

 or four, 7 to 11 cm. long, 2.5 to 3.5 cm. wide, the apex acute or acuminate, 

 the base acute; petioles about 1 cm. long. Panicles pendulous, 12 to 25 

 cm. long, the peduncle often 10 cm. long, the branches whorled, spreading or 

 ascending, 2.5 cm. long or less, the bracts lanceolate, 4.5 mm. long. Calyx 

 truncate, 3 mm. long, 2.5 mm. wide. Petals 5, irregularly obovate, 7 mm. 

 long, 5 to 6 mm. wide, pink. Stamens 10, 6 to 7 mm. long, the filaments 

 deep pink, 3.5 mm. long, the anthers azure blue, 3 to 3.5 mm. long. Style 

 mm. long. Fruit globose, 6 to 7 mm. in diamctor. black. Seeds many, 

 narrowly ovoid, 1 to 1.2 mm. long. 



Type specimen No. 5848 (A. D. E. Elmer), Mount Santo Tomas, Province 

 of Benguet, Luzon, March, 1904. 



A much-branched shrub along water courses. 



(10) Medinilla cumingil NaiuL. Cogn. 1. c, 592, Luzon, Cuming, No. 836, 



not seen. 



