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wide, widest in the middle, the apex short acuminate, the base cimeate, 

 the upper surface shining, the lower surface pale, the two outer nerves 

 faint, the other three prominent. Petioles 2 to 4 cm. long. Panicles 6 to 

 12 cm. long, the axis and branches grayish or brown lepidote pubescent, 

 the lower branches 3 to 8 cm. long. Calyx tube 3 mm. long, 2 mm. in 

 diameter, brown or grayish lepidote, with five very short, broad, obscure 

 teeth. Petals 5, broadly ovate, suborbicular, or subreniform, 2 mm. long. 

 The anthers subglobose, 1.2 mm. long. Ovary 2-celled; style 3.5 mm. long; 

 stigma capitate. 



Type specimen No. 6294 (A. D. E. Elmer), Baguio, Province of Benguet, 

 Luzon, May, 1904 ; also apparently No. 6055 (Elmer), same locality, March, 

 1904. A small shrub in thickets, with smooth grayish-white or dull yellow 

 bark and soft, brittle wood, apparently most closely related to Astronia 

 rolfei Vidal. 

 Creochiton rosea, sp. nov. 



A scandent shrub, the young branches densely furfuraceous tomentose, 

 the leaves more or less furfuraceous tomentose on the nerves beneath, the 

 inflorescence axillary, cymose. Branches reddish-brown, the older ones 

 glabrous. Leaves opposite, submembranous, elliptical ovate, acute or ob- 

 scurely acuminate, the base rounded, 7 to 11 cm. long, 3.5 to 5 cm. wide, 

 the upper surface glabrous, the low^er surface pale; nerves 5, the transverse 

 reticulations quite prominent beneath; petioles 1.5 to 2 cm. long. Cymes 

 axillary, 4 to 5 cm. long, deciduously furfuraceous tomentose, becoming 

 glabrous, each about 3-flowered, the peduncle 2 cm. long, the pedicels 1.5 

 to 2 cm. long. Flowers pale pink, the inclosing bracts deciduous, mem- 

 branous, slightly furfuraceous, obovate, obtuse, 10 to 15 mm. long, 7 to 10 

 mm. wide. Calyx furfuraceous, globose urceolate, 5 mm. long, truncate, 

 furfuraceous. Petals 4, broadly ovate, firm, obtuse, 6 mm. long or more. 

 Stamens 8; filaments about 5 mm; anthers about 6 mm. long, the conical 

 appendage at the base of the anther about 1.5 mm. long. Fruit globose, 

 about 8 mm. in diameter; seeds less than 1 mm. long. 



Type specimen No. 1297 (Copeland), Todaya, District of Davao, Minda- 

 nao, April, 1904. A scandent shrub growing in forests at an altitude of 

 about 1,200 m. above the sea. The genus has previously been known only 

 from Java, where it is represented by two species. 

 Melastoma parvifolia, sp. nov. 



A lax spreading shrub, about 3 m. high, with elliptical lanceolate, more 

 or less strigose, 5-nerved leaves, 5 cm. long or less, the fknvers in terminal 

 fascicles of about 5, the young flowers subtended by lanceolate bracts, the 

 lobes of the calyx with minute alternating teeth, the lobes exceeding the 

 calyx tube. Branches grayish-brown, rough, the branchlets slender, densely 

 covered with imbricated, brownish scales, which are 0.8 mm. long or less, 

 and more or less lacerate. Leaves 2.5 to 5 cm. long, 0.8 to 1.5 cm. wide, 

 the apex acute, mucronate, the base acute, both surfaces with scattered, 

 strigose hairs, the nerves on under surface with appressed scales, the two 

 marginal nerves much less distinct than the other three; petioles scaly, 

 5 mm. long. Flowers crowded in fascicles of about 5 at the ends of the 



