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membranous, 7 to 10 cm. long, 3 to 5 cm. wide, the apex sharp acuminate, 

 tapering below to the narrow obtuse base, glabrous above, nearly glabrous 

 beneath except the rather densely stellate-plumose pubescent nerves and 

 midrib; petiole very short or the leaves sessile. Racemes 2 to 5 flowered, the 

 rhachis and pedicels densely ferruginous stellate-plumose pubescent, the 

 bracts with scattered stellate hairs; pedicels 2 to 3 mm. long, each sub- 

 tended by a broadly ovate bract 5 to 6 mm. long, each flower subtended 

 by two persistent, membranous, red, broadly ovate, acute bracts about 13 

 mm. long, and 10 mm. wide. Calyx urceolate, 4 mm. long, densely hirsute 

 with spreading white hairs, the margin strongly 5-lobed, the teeth membra- 

 nous, acute broadly ovate, about 2 mm. long. Petals 5, oblong or narrowly 

 obovate oblong, regular, the apex rounded, 9 mm. long, 5 mm. wide. Stamens 

 10, subequal; filaments 5 mm. long; anthers 4 mm. long. 



Type sjjecimen: Baco River, Mindoro (328 McGregor), May 15, 1905, 

 growing in very humid forests; also a specimen collected by Copeland at 

 San Ramon, District of Zamboanga, Mindanao, January, 1905, growing near 

 streams at an altitude of from 200 to 500 m. above the sea. A species 

 apparently related to Medinilla setigera Miq., and M. hracteata Blume, but 

 very distinct from those species. 



Medinilla copelandi, sp. nov. 



A shrub about 3 m. high, Avith opposite, glabrous, petioled, 7-nerved 

 leaves and lateral, cymose inflorescence. Branches slender, light gray, 

 glabrous, terete or the ultimate branches somewhat angular. Leaves oblong- 

 ovate, narrowed to the acute base, the apex short slender acuminate, 

 15 to 20 cm. long, 7 to 8.5 cm. wide. Inflorescence from the branches 

 below the leaves, 5 to 7 cm. long, glabrous or very slightly furfuraceous, 

 the pedimcle 3 to 5 cm. long, the bracts about 3 mm. long, the brac- 

 teoles minute. Calyx cylindrical-campanulate, glabrous, truncate, 6 mm. 

 long. Petals 4, 9 mm. long, very strongly subrhomboidal oblique. Stamens 

 8; filaments 4 mm. long; anthers 6 mm. long. 



Type specimen collected by E. B. Copeland, without number, in the 

 mountains near San Ramon, District of Zamboanga, Mindanao, April 7, 

 1905. A small shrub growing in forests along moimtain streams at an 

 altitude of about 800 m. above the sea. 



Memecylon affine sp. nov. % Eumemecylon. 



A slender lax shrub 1 to 3 m. high, with hermaphrodite flowers, axil- 

 lary and terminal cymose inflorescence, 3-nerved sessile leaves, the slender 

 lateral nerves arched between the transverse nerves, the branches terete 

 glabrous, brownish gray. Leaves triangular-ovate, ovate oblong, to trian- 

 gular lanceolate, broadest near the rounded or cordate base, gradually 

 narrowed above to the rather slender acute or slightly acuminate apex, 

 6 to 11 cm. long, 2.5 to 4.5 cm. wide, coriaceous, glabrous, pale beneath 

 when dry, the nerves obscure above, and not prominent beneath, the 

 transverse nerves straight, about 12 on each side of the midrib, about 

 as prominent as the lateral nerves. Cymes 5 to 7 cm. long, minutely 

 furfuraceous puberulent, the peduncle 2 to 3.5 cm. long, the branches 

 verticillate, divaricate, the flowers at the apices of the branchlets in 



