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or longer than the peduncle, the fruits urceolate, about 8 mm long, G mm 

 in diameter, the calyx-limb persistent, truncate, produced about 4 mm, 

 6-celled. 



Negros, INIount Marapara, For. Bur. 11353 Curran, September 11, 1909, epi- 

 phytic on trees in forests, altitude about 500 m. 



Although the specimen is without flowers I have no doubt but that it is 

 referable to Medinilla, even though the fruits are distinctly 6-celled, indicating 

 a 6-merous flower, a character uncommon in the genus. It is well characterized 

 by its comparatively very small leaves which are whorled, petioled, and broadly 

 obovate, the veins three only, and the reticulations obsolete. The fruits are 

 solitary, but at the junction of the pedicels with the peduncles are found some 

 minute scars indicating a few-flowered, probably cymose, or possibly umbellate 

 inflorescence. Medinilla obovata has much smaller leaves than most of the other 

 Philippine species of the genus. 



Medinilla whitfordii Merr. in Govt. Lab. Publ. (Philip.) 29 (1905) 37. 



Carionia triplinervia Rolfe in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 21 (1884) 310; Vid. 

 Rev. PL Vase. Filip. (1886) 136; Cogn. in DC. Monog. Phan. 7 (1891) 571, non 

 Medinilla triplinervia Cogn. 



Luzon, District of Lepanto, Mount Data, For. Bur. 10956 Curran: Province of 

 Benguet, Pauai, Bur. Sci. 44^8 Mearns; Pauai to Baguio, Merrill 4779: Province 

 of Zambales, Mount Pinatubo, Bur. Sci. 2556 Foxworthy, Provinces of Lagima 

 and Tayabas, Mount Banajao, Whitford 961 (type of M. whitfordii), Bur. Sci. 

 6062 Robinson, Bur. Sci. 2388 Foxivorthy, For. Bur. 7899 Curran d Merritt: 

 Province of Albay, Mount Mayon, Vidal 779 in herb. Kew (type of CaHonia trip- 

 linervia Rolfe), Bur. Sci. 6504 Robinson. 



Reexamination of the type of Medinilla lohitfordii Merr. shows that its flowers 

 are 6-merous instead of 5-merous as originally described, and comparison of 

 our recently collected Philippine material with the type of Carionia triplinervia 

 Rolfe at Kew has shown that Medinilla lohitfordii Merr. is identical. The 

 species is to me a Medinilla rather than a Carionia, in spite of its 6-merous 

 flowers. Carionia is distinguished from Medinilla by its 6-merous flowers and 

 its spreading 4 to 5 mm long calyx-teeth, but Carionia triplinervia has a truncate 

 calyx with only very minute teeth, and in all other respects is a typical Medinilla; 

 either it must be transferred to Medinilla, or the few species with 6-merou3 

 flowers now placed in Medinilla must be transferred to Carionia. Medinilla has 

 4- to 6-merous flowers, and it would be just as logical to segregate those species 

 with 4-merous flowers in one genus, and those with 5-merous flowers into another, 

 as it would be to refer species like the present with 6-merous flowers but with a 

 truncate calyx to Carionia. The specific name selected by Mr. Rolfe is invalidated 

 in Medinilla. 



MEMECYLON Bl. 



Memecylon sessilifolium sp. nov. 



Arbor glabra circiter 16 m alta; ramulis acute tetragonis, angustissime 

 alatis, erassis; foliis sessilibus, coriaceis, nitidis, usque ad 12 cm longis, 

 late obtuseque acuminatis, penninerviis, nervis vix distinctis. Fructibus 

 fasciculatis vel solitariis, pedicellatis, 1 ad 1.5 cm diametro. 



A glabrous tree about 16 m high. Branches stout, subterete, covered 

 with a thin, grayish bark, the branchlets sharply 4-angled, very narrowly 

 winged on the angles, the wings less than 0.5 mm wide. Leaves sessile. 



