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brandies. Calyx densely clothed with pale, lanceolate, acuminate, imbri- 

 cated, more or less toothed scales, 1 to 2 mm. long, the tube 6 to 7 mm. long, 

 the calyx teeth 10 mm. long, 3.5 mm. wide, lanceolate, acuminate, the 

 alternating, narrowly lanceolate, long acuminate appendages similar to 

 the scales, 3 mm. long. Petals pink, narrowly obovate, obtuse, 2 cm. long, 

 12 to 14 mm. wide, their margins ciliate. Longer stamens 2 cm., the 

 connective 6 mm; the anthers 7 mm. 



Type specimen No. 5836 (A. D. E. Elmer), Baguio, Benguet, Province 

 of Luzon, March, 1904. A shrub with smooth bark, in thickets along 

 streams. 



Key to the Philippine species of Medinilla. 



1. Whole plant glabrous or nearly so. 

 2. Panicles or cymes axillary. 

 3. Leaves verticillate. 



4. Flowers 4-merous (1) M. pendula 



4. Flowers 5-merous. 



5. Cymes fascicled ; petals 12 mm. 



long (2) M. verticillata 



5. Cymes solitary ; petals 15 mm. 



long (3) M. mindanaensis 



3. Leaves opposite. 



4. Flowers 5-merous (4) M. coriacea 



4. Flowers 4-merous. 



5. Inflorescence elongate, panicled (5) M. multiflora 



5. Inflorescence fasciculate or cymose. 



6. Flowers fascicled (6) M. ramiflora 



6. Flowers cymose (7) M. myrtiformis 



2. Panicles or cymes terminal. 

 3. Leaves verticillate. 



4. Inflprescence cymose, 5 cm. long or less.... (8) M. megacalyx 

 4. Inflorescense paniculate, 12 to 25 cm. 

 long. 



5. Flowers 5-merous (9) M. elmeri 



5. Flowers 4-merous (10) M. cumingii 



3. Leaves opposite. 



4. Flowers 4-merous (11) M. amplifolia 



4. Flowers 5-merous. 



5. Leaves 9 to 13 nerved (12) M. magnified, 



5. Leaves 7-nerved (13) M. astronioides 



5. Leaves 5-nerved (14) M. intermedia 



5. Leaves 3-nerved (15) M. whitfordi 



1. Young branches, leaves, and inflorescence more or less 

 tomentose or stellate-tomentose. 



2. Leaves 3-nerved (16) M. cordata 



2. Leaves 5 to 9 nerved. 

 3. Leaves opposite. 



4. Floral bracts small or wanting. 



5. Petioles 1 to 2 cm. long (17) M. venosa 



5. Leaves sessile or subsessile (18) M. lagunae 



4. Floral bracts large, persistent. 



5. Leaves 7 to 11 cm. long, membra- 

 nous ; calyx 4 mm. long (19) M. bracteata 



5. Leaves 5 to 8 cm. long, subcoria- 



ceous ; calyx 3 mm. long (20) M. luzonensis 



3. Leaves whorled (21) M. ternifolia 



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