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(4) Medinilla coriacea, sp. nov. 



An epiphytic shrub, with elliptical, ovate, glabrous, petioled, opposite 

 5-nerved leaves, and axillary, ebracteolate, cymose inflorescence. Branches 

 light gray, glabrous, terete. Leaves coriaceous, 6 to 9 cm. long, 3.5 to 

 5.5 cm. wide, the apex blunt short acuminate, the base acute; petioles 



I to 1.5 cm. long. Cymes about 2 cm. long, few-flowered, often 2 or more 

 from the same axil, the peduncle 1 cm. long, the pedicels about 8 mm. long. 

 Calyx urceolate, truncate, 6 mm. long. Petals 5, obliquely obovate, taper- 

 ing to the base, 13 mm. long, 8 mm. wide, obtuse. Stamens 10; filaments 



II mm. long; anthers 11 to 12 mm. long, the spur and the appendages 

 about 1 mm. long. 



Type specimen No. 228 (Whitford), Mount Mariveles, Province of 

 Bataan, Luzon, May, 1904. An epiphyte, growing at an altitude of about 

 1,000 m. above the sea, the leaves fleshy when fresh. 



(5) Medinilla multiflora, sp. nov. 



A glabrous, erect or subscandent shrub, 3 to 4 m. high, with opposite, 

 3 to 5 nerved, subcoriaceous leaves, and axillary, elongated, many-flowered 

 panicles, about 35 cm. long, the flowers 4-merous. Branches thickened, 

 slightly 4-angular, light gray, glabrous, densely setose at the nodes. Leaves 

 elliptical oblong, subsessile, acute or blunt, the base tapering to the flat- 

 tened, nearly obsolete petiole. Panicles drooping, pink, succulent, the 

 branches whorled, the lower ones 6 to 8 cm. long, the upper gradually 

 shorter; bracts lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 5 to 6 mm. long. Flowers 

 pale pink. Calyx 3 mm. long, truncate. Petals 4, about 5 mm. long. 

 Stamens- 8; filaments about 3 mm. long; anthers 3 mm. long, the spur 

 very short. Fruit globose, black-purple, about 6 mm. in diameter. 



Type specimen collected by Merrill, Mount Arayat, Province of Pam- 

 panga, Luzon, May 15, 1904, without number (flower) ; also No. 3915 

 (Merrill), same locality, October, 1904 (fruit). Observed only at the 

 summit of the mountain at an altitude of 870 m. 

 (G) Medinilla ramiflora, sp. nov. 



A glabrous, erect shrub or undershrub, with ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, sessile or subsessile, 3-nerved, opposite leaves, the flowers in 

 axillary fascicles on the branchlets or on the larger branchlets below the 

 leaves. Branches grayish-brown, striate, the ultimate branchlets glabrous 

 brownish-red, terete. Leaves 4 to 7 cm. long, 1.5 to 3 cm. wide, subcoria- 

 ceous, the apex long slender acuminate, the acumen blunt or retuse, the 

 base somewhat rounded, minutely cordate, .the three nerves prominent 

 beneath, often also two very obscure submarginal nerves; petioles 1 mm. 

 or wanting. Flowers pedicelled or nearly sessile, fasciculate on protuber- 

 ances from the branches, 3 to 8 flowers in a fascicle, the pedicels in fruit 



5 mm. long or less. Calyx red, 3 mm. long, the 4 teeth acute, about 1 mm. 

 long. Petals four, pink, ovate-lanceolate, acute or somewhat acuminate, 



6 mm. long, 2.5 mm. wide. Stamens 8, subequal, filaments 3 mm. long; 

 anthers 3 mm. long, acuminate. Style filiform, 7 mm. long. Fruit ovoid, 

 5 mm. in diameter, bright red; seeds less than 1 mm. long. 



