208 MERRILL. 



Medinilla dementis sp. nov. 



Fnitex glaber iit vicletur scandens, ramiUis angulatis, valde quadria- 

 latis; foliis subcoriaceis, oppositis, petiolatis, oblongis, acuminatis, basi 

 rotiindatis vel leviter subcordatip, usque ad 28 cm longis, 7- vel 9-pliner- 

 viis; inflorescentiis tGrminalibus, elongatis, bracteis parvis; floribus 

 5-meris. 



A shrub, apparently scandeut, glabrous throughout. Branches stout, 

 4-angled, the. angles winged, the wings 2 to 3 mm wide, the nodes setose. 

 Leaves opposite, oblong, subcoriaceous, somewhat shining, 20 to 28 cm 

 long, 7 to 11 cm wide, the apex acuminate, the base rather broad, rounded, 

 often somewhat subcordate; nerves 7 or 9, the outer ones basal, the 

 interior one or two pairs leaving the midrib shortly above the base and 

 reaching the apex, the reticulations obsolete or nearly so; petioles 2.S 

 to 3 cm long. Inflorescence terminal, long-peduncled, slender, 25 to 

 40 cm long, the branches few, short, the bracts 5 to 7 mm long. Pedicels 

 about 1 cm long. Calyx cup-shaped, about 4 mm long, the limb somewhat 

 produced, truncate. Petals 5, pink, narrowly obovate, inequilateral, 

 about 10 mm long, 5 mm wide. Stamens 10, equal, the filaments 6 mm 

 long; anthers narrowly lanceolate, somewat curved, 6 mm long, the basal 

 dorsal spur slender, less than 5.5 mm long, the anterior two auricles 

 stout, about 1 mm long. Style slender, 13 mm long. 



Mi.NDANAO, Lake Lanao, Sacred Mountain near Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens 

 s. n., July, 1907 (type), and between Camp Keithley and Malabang, Mis. Clemens 

 s. n., November, 1906. 



A species well characterized by the details given in the diagnosis; it is perhaps 

 as closely allied to Medinilla teysmanni Miq. as to any other described form', but 

 is quite different from Miquel's species. 



Medinilla obovata sp. nov. 



Frutex epiphyticus, glaber, vel ramulis jimioribus plus minus brunneo- 

 furfuraceis; foliis parvis, verticillatis, ternis vel quarternis, coriaceis, 

 obovatis, petiolatis, apice late rotundatis vel leviter retusis, vix 3 cm longis, 

 triplinerviis, reticulis obsoletis; floribus ignotis, ut videtur 6-meris, longe 

 pedicellatis, solitariis, vel in cymis paucifloris dispositis, axillaribus; 

 fnictibus urceolatis, limbo calycis producto truncato. 



A glabrous epiphytic shrub, or the ultimate branchlets more or less 

 brown-furfuraceous. Branches stout, grayish, terete, the branchlets some- 

 what quadrangular, the internodes short, mostly less than 1 cm in length, 

 the nodes not barbellate. Leaves whorled, in threes or fours, coriaceous, 

 obovate, less than 3 cm long, and less than 1 cm in width, the apex 

 broadly rounded or somewhat retuse, narrowed below to the cuneate base, 

 the margins sometimes recurved; nerves 3 only, the lateral pair leaving 

 the midrib shortly above the base, the reticulations obsolete ; petioles about 

 5 mm long. Flowers unknown. Infrutescence axillary, the peduncles 

 solitaiy, axillary, about 1 cm long, each bearing a single pedicel as long 



