NEW PHILIPriNE PT.ANTS. 153 



in whorls of three, tlie bracts niul hracteoks sulnilate, 1.5 to 3 inm long, 

 the pedicels about 3 mm long. Calyx ovoid, about 5 mm in diameter, 

 rugose when dry, the limb slightly produced, obscurely 4-toothed, 

 glabrous. Petals 4, broadly irregularly obovate, 4 to 4.5 mm long, 3 to 

 3.5 mm wide, obtuse, glabrous. Stamens 8, subequal; filainents 2.5 mm 

 long; anthers 3 mm long. 



Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens 51.'i, SS5, April, 1900, 

 January, 1907. 



A species apparently allied to Medinilla corallina Cogn., of Borneo (ex deser.), 

 well characterized by its ferruginous-stellate-plumose pubescence, the leaves 

 reddish-brown beneath and pale al)ove. and its slender panicles. 



MELASTOMA Burm. 



Melastoma lanaense ^lerrill sp. nov. 



Frutex erectus, ramis ramulis petiolisque plus minus dense ferrugineo- 

 hirsutis et squamulis parvis, ovatis vel lanceolatis, acmninatis, plus minus 

 ciliatis, obtectis; foliis elliptico-ovatis vel late ellipticis, acuminatis, 5- 

 nerviis, subcoriaceis, snbtns plus minus hirsutis, et paleis numerosis lan- 

 ceolatis, patulis, acuminatis, praesertim ad nervos obsitis; calycis lobis 

 tubum aequantibus, dentibus subulatis, penicillatis, 2.5 mm longis alter- 

 nantibus, paleolis lanceolatis, penicillato-acuminatis, plus minus denti- 

 culatis vel pauce fimbriatis, 2 mm longis, subpatulis, non fasciculatis, 

 dense obtectis ; floribus 5-meris, ca. 3 cm longis. 



An erect shrub, the branches, branchlets and petioles rather densely 

 ferruginous-hirsute and with numerous ovate or lanceolate, acuminate, 

 somewhat ciliate, more or less spreading or appressed scales. Leaves 

 elliptical-ovate to broadly elliptical, subcoriaceous, 8 to 17 cm long, 3 

 to 8.5 cm wide, apex acuminate, base acute, dull, above with numerous 

 more or less appressed subulate scales, beneath more or less hirsute, 

 and with scattered, ovate, more or less ciliate, usually appressed scales, 

 especially on the nerves; nerves 5, prominent, the cross-nervules numer- 

 ous, parallel, slightly curved; petioles 1.5' to 3.5 cm long. Flowers 

 5-merous, pink, usually in tlirees, short-pedicellate or subsessile. Calyx 

 tube 1.5 cm long, 8 mm thick, the lobes 5, lanceolate, acuminate, 1.5 cm 

 long, 4 mm wide, the alternating teeth linear-lanceolate, penicillate- 

 acuminate, 2.5 mm long, 1 mm wide at the base, the margins more or 

 less ciliate-lacerate, the tube and Ijacks of the teeth densely covered with 

 closely imbricate, lanceolate, penicillate-acuminate palea?, about 2 mm 

 long, 0.7 mm wide, their margins denticulate and often somewhat fini- 

 In-iate, not fasciculate, their upper portions somewhat spreading. Petals 

 obovate, 2.5 cm long, 1.8 cm wide, rounded, the apical margins ciliate- 

 hispid. Anthers 7 mm long, tbe appendage to the connective about 1.4 

 mm long. Bracts and bracteoles, if any, caducous. 



Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Camp Keitlrley, Mrs. Clemens s. «., July and Septoui- 

 ber, 1907, and no. 836, November, 1900. 



