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acuminate, 5 and 6.5 mm long, dorsal appendages short, the 
anterior one very small or nearly obsolete. 
Panay, Iloilo Province, Ulian River, Bur. Sci. 18253 Robinson, January 
11, 1913, altitude 250 meters. 
This is more closely allied to Medinilla apoensis C. B. Rob. (M. con- 
fluentinervia Elm.), than to any other Philippine form, but is very different 
from that species, being distinguished by its rather long-petioled leaves 
which have fewer nerves, and by its distinctly 4-angled, not terete branchlets. 
MEDINILLA PARVIBRACTEA sp. nov. 
Species M. magnificae affinis, differt floribus minoribus, brac- 
teis multo minoribus, 1.5 ad 2.5 cm longis, nodis vix setosis. 
An erect shrub or small tree 4 to 7 m high, quite glabrous. 
Branches stout, terete or obscurely 4-angled, the ultimate branch- 
lets with 4, thick, narrow wings. Leaves opposite elliptic-ovate 
to somewhat obovate-elliptic, sessile, 20 to 30 cm long, 10 to 16 
cm wide, coriaceous, somewhat shining, the apex shortly and 
abruptly acuminate, the base somewhat narrowed, prominently 
11-plinerved, the interior two pairs of nerves reaching the apex, 
the others evanescent, the transverse nervules very slender, 
nearly obsolete on the lower surface. Panicles solitary, ter- 
minal and lateral, peduncled, 14 to 25 cm long, the peduncles 
7 to 9 cm long, the branches in whorls of 4, spreading, the lower 
ones 5 to 9 cm long, each whorl subtended by 4, membranaceous, 
broadly ovate to oblong-obovate, obtuse to subacute, apparently 
colored bracts 1.5 to 2.5 cm long. Flowers pink, 5-merous. 
Calyx urceolate, about 4 mm long, the limb somewhat spreading, 
truncate, the mouth 4 mm in diameter. Petals 5, obliquely ob- 
ovate, 8 mm long. Stamens 10, subequal ; filaments about 5 mm 
long ; anthers as long as the filaments, somewhat curved, acumi- 
nate, lanceolate, the dorsal spur very short, the anterior two 
stout, curved, about 1 mm long. Ovary 5-celled. 
Babuyan Islands, Camiguin, summit of the volcano, Bur. Sci. il51 
Fenix (type), July 7, 1907, the inflorescence terminal. Batan Islands, 
Batan, Mount Iraya, Bur. Sci. 3820 F&aix, June 12, 1907, in forests near 
the summit of the mountain, inflorescence lateral. Luzon, Cagayan Prov- 
ince, Caua Volcano, R. N. Clark, August, 1908, in forests, altitude 1000 m, 
inflorescence terminal. 
This is manifestly very closely allied to Medinilla magnifica Lindl., from 
which it differs in its smaller flowers and very much smaller bracts. The 
specimens with terminal inflorescence manifestly represent the same species 
as the one with a lateral inflorescence. In this genus it is not uncommon 
to find both lateral and terminal inflorescences on the same specimen, a 
character that is not always shown by ordinary herbarium material. 
MEDINILLA PELTATA sp. nov. 
Frutex glaber, ramulis 4-angulatis, crasse et anguste 4-alatis ; 
foliis oppositis, petiolatis, ovatis ad oblongo-ovatis, coriaceis. 
