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(11) Medinilla amplifolia, sp. nov. 



A clambering shrub, about 3 m. high, with glabrous, coriaceous, 5 to 

 7 nerved, elliptical ovate, or broadly elliptical, shortly and abruptly acu- 

 minate leaves, about 22 cm. long and 11 to 18 cm. wide, the flowers 4-merous. 

 Branchlets thickened, light gray, glabrous, 4-angled, the angles narrowly 

 winged. Leaves opposite, the base somewhat cordate, the marginal nerves 

 obscure, the other five prominent. Panicles terminal, about 20 cm. long, 

 the axis and branches red, glabrous, branches few, opposite or whorled, 

 the longer ones 10 cm. long, the bracts about 1 cm. long, ovate-acuminate. 

 Calyx blue, truncate, 5 to 6 mm. long, about 3 to 4 mm. in diameter. 

 Corolla pink, the petals 4, obovate-oblong, obtuse, inequilateral, narrowed 

 below, 14 mm. long, 6 to 8 mm. wide. Stamens 8; filaments 8 mm. long, 

 the anthers about 10 mm. long. 



Type specimen No. 6112 (A. D. E. Elmer), Sablan, Province of Benguet, 

 Luzon, April, 1904. A clambering shrub in ravines, etc. 



(12) Medinilla magnifica Lindl., Cogn. 1. c., 593. Baco River, Mindoro, 



Xo. 4046 (Merrill), March, 1905. 



(13) Medinilla astronioides Triana, Cogn. 1. c., 594. Philippines, Cum- 



ing, No. 758, not seen. Luzon, Mount Mariveles, Province of Bataan, 

 No. 3895, Merrill, August, 1904. 



(14) Medinilla intermedia Blume, Cogn. 1. c., 597. 



A species apparently represented by No. 3965 (Merrill) ; No. 2405 

 (Meyer) and No. 125 (Whitford), all from Mount Mariveles, Province of 

 Bataan, Luzon, flowering January to May. Java. 



(15) Medinilla whitfordi, sp. nov. 



An erect, glabrous shrub, 3 to 5 m. high, with opposite, 3-nerved, 

 coriaceous leaves and terminal, single, or at most, 3-flowered inflorescence 

 and 5-merous flowers. Branches slender, glabrous. Leaves opposite, 4 to 

 6 cm. long, 1.5 to 2 cm. wide, elliptical oblong, tapering to the acute base, 

 the apex short acuminate; petiole flattened, 2 mm. long or less. Cymes 

 terminal, very short. Calyx glabrous, truncate, 8 to 10 mm. long, 5 to 6 

 mm. thick. Petals 2.5 cm. long, about 1.2 cm. wide, obtuse, inequilaterally 

 oblong, obovate. Stamens 10, equal; filaments 10 mm. long or slightly 

 less; anthers 6 mm. long. Style about 18 mm. long. Fruit unknown. 



Type specimen No. 961 (H. N. Whitford), Mount Banahao, Province 

 of Tayabas, Luzon, September 19, 1904. A species evidently closely related 

 to Medinilla megacalyx, differing in its opposite leaves, growing only at 

 and near the summit of one of the peaks, at an elevation of about 1,700 in., 

 forming dense thickets with Homalanthus populneus and two species of 

 Rhododendron. 



(16) Medinilla cordata, sp. nov. 



A spreading or subscandent shrub, 2 to 3 m. high, with elliptical, ovate, 

 opposite, subcoriaceous, 3-nerved, more or less pilose leaves, which are 

 cordate or rounded at the base, abruptly short acuminate, and terminal, 

 erect panicles 5 to 6 cm. long. Branches light gray, shining, glabrous, the 

 branchlets more or less densely pilose. Leaves 4 to 8 cm. long, 2 to 4 cm. 

 wide, when young densely pilose, becoming nearly glabrous; basal nerves 

 three. Panicles more or less pilose, the axis and branches slender, the 



