296 The Philippine Journal of Science 1920 



A slender, epiphytic, scandent shrub, the stems frequently- 

 emitting roots, the branches and branchlets terete, the latter, 

 and the petioles and leaves on the midrib beneath, distinctly 

 stellate-pubescent with short brown hairs. Leaves opposite, pen- 

 ninerved, obovate-elliptic, subsessile, 10 to 13 cm long, 5 to 9 cm 

 wide, the apex shortly acuminate, the base somewhat narrowed, 

 rounded or obscurely cordate; midrib prominent, the lateral 

 nerves leaving it in the lower 2 to 4 cm, distinct, ascending, 

 usually 3 on each side of the midrib, the inner pairs extending 

 to the apex; petioles 2 mm long or less. Inflorescences lateral, 

 solitary, subsessile, the flowers densely arranged in simple, 

 globose to ovoid racemes, 2 to 2.5 cm long, each flower subtended 

 by an obovate to spatulate, red, slightly pubescent bracteole, 10 

 to 13 mm in length. Pedicels short. Calyx urceolate, about 7 

 mm long and 5 mm in diameter, slightly stellate-pubescent, the 

 limb produced, obscurely 5-toothed. Ovary 5-celled. 



DiNAGAT, Bur. Sci. 35179, Ramos & Pascasio, May 11, 1919, 

 on tree trunks in forests at low altitudes. 



A remarkably characteristic species not closely allied to any 

 previously described form, distinguishable by its subsessile, pen- 

 ninerved, opposite leaves; its stellate, brownish, rather sparse 

 indumentum; and its dense, lateral, subcapitate, simple racemes 

 of 5-merous flowers. 



MEDINILLA CONFERTI FLORA sp. nov. 



Frutex erectus, glaberrimus, ramulis teretibus, foliis oppositis, 

 sessilibus, oblongo-obovatis ad oblongo-lanceolatis, usque ad 20 

 cm longis, tenuiter acuminatis, basi perspicue angustatis, pen- 

 ninerviis, nervis utrinque 4 ; inflorescentiis cauiinis, ramosis, cir- 

 citer 7 cm longis, densissime multifloris et multibracteatis, 

 bracteis angustis obovatis ad spatulatis usque ad 15 mm longis ; 

 floribus 4-meris. 



An erect, entirely glabrous shrub, about 3 m high, with terete 

 stems and opposite, sessile leaves. Leaves chartaceous when dry, 

 oblong-obovate to oblong-lanceolate, 14 to 20 cm long, 5 to 10 

 cm wide, olivaceous, penninerved, the apex slenderly acuminate, 

 narrowed below to the rounded base, the narrow basal portion 

 of the leaf 2 to 5 cm in length and 1.5 to 3 cm in width; lateral 

 nerves usually 4 on each side of the midrib, leaving it in the 

 lower half, ascending, the inner two pairs reaching the apex 

 or nearly so, the transverse reticulations distant, parallel, prom- 

 inent. Inflorescences from the trunks, woody, branched, about 

 7 cm long, densely many-flowered and multibracteate, the bracts 

 narrowly obovate to spatulate, glabrous, up to 15 mm long, the 



