206 MERRILL. 



attacliecl to the lower inner angle of each cell; style slender, 9 mm long; 

 stigma punctiform. 



Luzon, Provinoc of ].ii<,aiiia, Dajiciin, near Paete, liur. Hoi. 8986 Foxworthy, 

 July 25, 1909, in forests, altitude not given. 



This proposed new genus is manifestly closely allied to Mcdinilla, differing 

 especially in its jjroduccd and prominently 4-lobed calj-x-tube and densely pilose 

 top of the ovary. It diflfers also from that genus in its dense, hemispherical, 

 sessile, involucrate heads, and in its buds being entirely inclosed within one of 

 the bracteoles, the bracteole later splitting and becoming 2-lobod; it also dilfers 

 from most of the known species of Mcilitiilla in its very niicqiiiil leaves. 



MEDINILLA Gaudich. 



Medinilla cardiophylla sp. iiov. 



Species M. myrtifornii simillima et valde afrinis, differt foliis ))aulo 

 raajoribiis, basi late rotundatis valde cordatis. 



An epiphytic slinib about 1.5 m. high, glabrous throughout. Branches 

 slender, terete, reddish-brown or grayish. Leaves ovate to ovate-lan- 

 ceolate, opposite, subcoriaceous, 7 to 10 cm long, 3 to 4.5 cm wide, 

 the base broad and rounded, rather strongly cordate, the apex long and 

 rather slenderly acuminate, the acumen blunt, o-plinerved, the interior 

 pair prominent and reaching the apex of the leaf, the outside pair much 

 fainter and reaching to about the middle of the leaf, the reticulations 

 very faint or subobsolete; petiole about 1 mm long or almost Avanting. 

 Cymes axillary, solitary, slender, few-fiowered, 3 to 5 cm long, the 

 peduiicles 3.5 cm long or less, the pedicels slender. Flowers 4-merous. 

 Calyx somewhat campanulnte. 3 to 3.5 mm long, base narrowed, limb 

 produced about 1 mm and with four small, distant teeth. Petals 4. 

 oblong-lanceolate, somewhat acuminate, about G mm long, 2.2 mm wide. 

 Stamens 8, the four longer ones about 6 mm long, the four shorter ones 

 5 mm long; anthers 3 to 3.5 mm long, lanceolate, straight, the connective 

 not produced, with a dorsal, stout, broad, 0.5 mm long S])ur, the front 

 with two broad, rather obscure auricles. Ovary 4-celled; style about G 

 mm long: stigma punctiforai. Fruit scarlet, globose, G mm in diameter, 

 ci-owned by the minute calyx-teeth. 



MiXDAXAO, Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens 861. December, 190G, 

 in fruit, s.n., September, 1907, in flower (type). Luzox, Province of Albay. 

 Mount Afayon. Ihn: Kri. 6.''>09 Rnhnisaii. Seiitciiilicr T.. 'lOOS. on trees in .stream 

 depressions, altitude 400 m. 



A species manifestly very closely allied to Medinilla mi/iliformis Triana. 

 difTering in the points stated in the diagnosis. The present species with ^f. 

 mjfrfiforvii.i Triana and M. ramiflora ]Merr. form a group of closely allied forms 

 which perhaps have as much the characters of Anplectrum as of Medinilla. M<di- 

 nilla rumiflnra Merr. may not prove to be specifically distinct from (lie TJornean 

 Anplectrum Immneandrvm Stapf. 



