NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VIII. 205 



Cephalomedinilla anisophylla sp. nov. 



Fnitex scandens circiter 2 in altus; ramis teretibus, griseis, ramulis 

 foliis junioribus inflorescentiisque plus minus dense pilosis, pilis simpli- 

 cibus, albis; foliis oppositis, elliptico-oblougis, chartaceis vel submem- 

 branaeeis, acuminatis, sessilibus, valde inaequalibus, majoribus usque ad 

 15 cm longis, minoribus vix 2.5 cm longis; nervis utrinque 4, curvato- 

 adscendentibus ; infiorescentiis capitatis, axillaribus, solitariis, 1.5 ad 

 2 cm diametro, dense multifloris, bracteis numerosis late ovatis involu- 

 cratis; floribus 4-meris, subsessilibus vel brevissime pedicellatis. 



A scandent shrub about 2 m high. Branches terete, ratlier slender, 

 glabrous, light-gray, the j^ounger branchlets densely pilose with long, 

 simple, pale or brownish hairs. Leaves opposite, sessile, elliptic-oblong, 

 chartaceous or submembranaceous, very unequal, the larger ones of each 

 pair 12 to 15 cm long, 5 to 6 cm wide, the smaller ones less than 2.5 cm 

 long and 1 cm wide, rather prominently acuminate, the base gradually 

 narrowed, acute or obtuse, the younger ones more or less densely covered 

 with pilose hairs, becoming quite glabrous; midrib prominent, the four 

 pairs of lateral nerves leaving the midrib in the lower one-half of the 

 leaf, the inneraiost two pairs reaching to the apex, curved-ascending, 

 the reticulations transverse, distinct, subparallel. Heads solitary, ses- 

 sile, in the leaf -axils or in the axils of fallen leaves, hemispheric, 1.5 to 

 2 cm in diameter, each with from 12 to 20 densely arranged subsessilc 

 flowers, each head subtended by about 10 broadly ovate, membranaceous, 

 more or less pilose, somewhat acuminate, imbricate, pink or reddish 

 bracts, 10 to 11 mm long, 8 to 9 mm wide. Flowers 4-merous, pink, 

 each subtended by two bracteoles, one elliptic-ovate, flat, the other entirely 

 inclosing the bud, at length splitting down one side and wlien spread 

 suborbicular-ovate, about 9 mm in diameter, cleft to the middle into two 

 elliptic-ovate lobes, the sinus acute, the lobes faintly 3- to 5-nei'ved, 

 more or less pilose. Calyx 6 to 7 mm long, ovoid, somewhat narrowed 

 to the base, very densely pilose with long, soft, simple, white hairs, the 

 limb 4 mm long, cleft into four narrowly ovate, acute or acuminate, 2.5 

 to 3 mm long lobes, pilose on both sides. Petals 4, imbricate, thin, 

 glabrous, 8 to 9 mm long, narrowly oblong-obovate or obovate-sub- 

 spatulate, much narrowed in the lower one-half, about 4 mm wide, the 

 apex somewhat inequilateral, rounded or subacute. Stamens 8, equal; 

 filaments slender, 5 mm long; anthers lanceolate, 4 mm long, somewhat 

 curved, acuminate, ' opening by a terminal pore, the connective not at 

 all produced, the base in front with two short, more or less connate, 

 somewhat curved, thick lobes less than" 1 mm long, and with a small, 

 0.3 mm long spur behind. Ovary adherent to the calyx, 4-celled, the 

 top densely pilose with long white hairs; ovules many, the placenta 



