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leaf and a single detai^liod fruit. It is exactly matched hy tlic specimen collected 

 by Mangiibat, cited above, which came from the same general region as the 

 original. Unfortunately the specimens collected by Mangnbat are poorly prepared, 

 but I am al)le to add the following to the original imperfect description: 



Branches terete, light-gray, densely touientose. Leaves S to 12 cm 

 long, 4 to 8 cm wide, the nerves 3 or 4 on each side of the midrib, 

 curved-ascending. Cymes lateral, 4 cm long or k\'^s, few-flowered, 

 densely tomentose ; l)racts narrowly obovate, aljout 1 cm long. Calyx 

 obscurely 4-tootlied, the teeth short, Inroad. Petals 4, al)out 9 mm long. 

 Stamens 8, subequal ; anthers 5 mm long. 



The species is most closely allied to Medinilla lagunae Vidal but has quite 

 differently shaped leaves. It differs from M. halconensis Merr.. in its 4-merous 

 Howers and more numerously nerved leaves, which are pubescent beneath only, 

 while iji M. halconensis they j^re pubescent on both surfaces. 



Medinilla cogniauxii sp. nov. 



Medinilla bructcata Cogn. in DC. Monog. Plum. 8 (1S91) (jOl, in part (('iniiiii<i 

 1335, 1487; Vidal). 



Differt M. hracteaiae Blume foliis longioribus, inflorescentiis termina- 

 libus, racemosis, multo longioribus, usque ad 30 cm longis, simplicibus. 



A scandent or decumbent shrub 2 to G m high, the branches terete, 

 slender, shining, glabrous, the branchlets densely stellate-plumose-to- 

 mentose. Leaves membranaceous, elliptical-lanceolate, acuminate, base 

 narrowed, abruptly rounded and narrowly cordate, 7 to 18 cm long, 3 to 5 

 cm wide, glabrous above when mature, more or less stellate-tomentose 

 on the nerves when young, beneath densely stellate-plumose-tomentose 

 on the nerves and with scattered hairs on the lamina; nerves prominent 

 beneath, two on each side of the midrib, the outer pair subbasal 

 and extending to the middle of the leaf or above, the inner pair leaving 

 the midrib some distance aboNC the base and extending to the apex, rarely 

 a third pair of short basal nerves present; petioles densely tomentose, 

 1 to 3 mm long. Eacemes from the terminal axils only, 7 to 30 cm 

 long, pendulous, slciulcr. densely stollate-tomentose, Ibe llowers usually 

 arranged in wliorls ol' tbrees, eacb node with three membranaceous, ovate, 

 5 to 8 mm long, 5-nerved, ]5ersistent bracts, which are somewhat stellate- 

 tomentose; pedicels about 4 mm long. Calyx 4 to 5 mm long, truncate, 

 ovoid, densely hirsute, the stift' hairs ciliate. Petals 5, narrowly obovate, 

 obtuse, aljout 9 mm long, 4.5 mm wide. Stamens 10, subequal; anthers 

 3 mm long. Style 8 mm long. Each flowei- sul)tended by two per- 

 sistent bracteoles, whicli are orbicular-ovate, obtuse, 7-nerved, mem- 

 hranaceous, about 13 mm long, somewhat tomentose. Fruit subgiobose, 

 setose, about 5 mm in diametei-, enclosed by i\\Q persistent bracteoles. 



Luzon, Province of liatangas, (j inning I'fSl, in Herb. Bur. Sci. Mindoro, 

 Baco River, Merrill Ji035, March, 1905; Modregor 183, 200, April, 1905. 



A very characteristic species, confused by C'ogniaux with Medinilla hractcdlo; 

 Blume. which is a qtiito different species. In .January of the present year I 



