512 DICOTYLEDONEEX. MEDINILLA , 
acute 4-6-gonis ; foliis oblongis, abrupte brevissime obtuseque acumi- 
natis, basi acutiusculis vel obtusis, 3-plinerviis; eymis paucifloris, 
interdum axillaribus ; calyeis dentibus brevibus. 
Rami graciles, læves. Petiolus crassus, 4-6 mm. longus. Folia car- 
nosula, 5-6 em. longa, 17-26 mm. lata. Cym:e brevissimæ. Calycis | 
tubus 8 mm. longus. Petala 16-18 mm. longa. 
In ins. Luzonia (Vidal). 
XCVII. MEDINILLA, Gaudich. in Freycin. Voy. Bot. 494 ien 
DC. Prodr. VL, 167 et Mém. Mélast. 61; Endl. Gen. n. 6236; 
Blume, Rumphia, 1l, 11; Korth. in Ver h. Nat. Gesch. p^ 245 ; 
part. I, 538; A. Gray, Bot. Un. St. Expl. Exped. 599; Seem. Fl. 
Vit. 88; Benth. et Hook. Gen. 1, 159; Triana, Mélast. 85 et 168; 
Hook. f. in Oliv. Fl. trop. Afr. YI, 460; H. Baill. Hist. des PI. 
VII, 13 et 49 (part.); C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. Il, 
546. — Diplogenea Lindl. in Brand. Quart. Journ. 1828, p. 121; 
Naud. l.c. 297. — Tripleetrum Don ex Wight et Arn. Prodr. L, 
324 (1834). — Hypenanthe et Dactyliota Blume, Mus. Bot. L, 21 
(1849). — Erpetina Naud. l. c. 299. — Dissochætæ sect. Oxyotan- 
dra H. Baill. in Adans. XIL, 88 (1877) et Hist. des Pl. VIL, 51. 
Flores 4-5-meri rarius 6-meri. Calycis tubus hemisphzericus ovoi- 
deus turbinatus campanulatus vel cylindraceus; limbus integer vel 
breviter lobatus, rarissime irregulariter lacerus, lobis interdum den- 
ticulis punetiformibus auctis. Petala ovata oblonga vel obovata, 
scepissime acuta, carnosula. Stamina petalorum numero dupla, æqua- 
lia vel subzequalia rarius inzequalia; antherze lineari-subulatze, breves 
vel elongate, incurvæ vel sigmoideze, apice l-porosc rarissime 2- 
porosæ vel breviter birimosze, connectivo basi sæpissime non pro- 
ducto, antice bilobo vel bicalearato, postice 1-2-lobo vel l-calcarato. 
Ovarium totum vel septis tantum calycis tubo adhzerens, 4-6-loculare, 
vertice convexo glabrum vel rarissime stellato-pubescens interdum 
annulo coronatum; stylus filiformis vel columnaris, basi interdum 
incrassatus, stigmate punetiformi. Bacca calycis limbo coronata, glo- 
bosa vel ovoidea, polysperma. Semina irregulariter ovoidea vel dimi- 
diata, recta, lzevia vel aspera, raphe szepissime incrassata excurrente. 
Fruütices ramosi, erecti vel scandentes nunc epiphytici, interdum 
carnosuli, glabri vel rarius furfuracei rarissime stellato-pubescentes; 
