282 The Philippine Journal of Science 1915 
plicibus, floribus paucis, umbellatim dispositis; floribus magnis, 
6-meris, ebracteolatis, calycibus circiter 12 cm longis, petals 
obovatis, 2.8 cm longis. 
A scandent glabrous shrub reaching a height of 7 m, the 
branches and branchlets terete, stout. Leaves opposite, ovate, 
coriaceous, 8 to 14 cm long, 5 to 10 cm wide, pale when dry, 
somewhat shining, apex very shortly and abruptly apiculate, 
base acute to rounded, 5- or faintly 7-nerved, the reticulations 
obsolete or nearly so ; petioles 2 to 3 cm long. Inflorescence 
lateral, simple, umbellate, solitary or fascicled up to 5 cm in 
length, the peduncles 2.5 to 5 cm long, mostly from the axils 
of fallen leaves, each with about 3 umbellately arranged, ebrac- 
teate, short-pedicelled flowers. Flowers pink, large, 6-merous. 
Calyx about 12 mm long and 1 cm in diameter, cup-shaped to 
somewhat urceolate, truncate, narrowed below to the 2 mm long 
pedicels. Petals 6, obovate, somewhat inequilateral, rounded, 
narrowed below, 2.8 cm long and 1.8 cm wide. Stamens 12, 
somewhat unequal; filaments about 15 mm long; anthers of the 
shorter stamens lanceolate, acuminate, curved, about 9 mm long, 
the dorsal appendage slender, truncate, somewhat flattened, 
curved, about 2.5 mm long, the anterior two oblong, obtuse, 
stout, curved, about 2 mm long; anthers of the longer filaments 
up to 11 mm in length. Ovary 6-celled. Fruit ovoid or globose- 
ovoid, truncate, about 1.5 cm in diameter. 
Leyte, Buenavista, near Jaro, Wenzel 9^1 (type), 1196, July 3, and 
October 11, 1914, the former in flower, the latter in fruit, in forests, altitude 
about 500 meters. 
A species falling in the group with Medinilla laurifolia Blume, according 
to Cogniaux’s arrangement, but quite different from all the other forms 
place here. It is characterized by its unusually large, 6-merous, umbellately 
arranged flowers, its short lateral inflorescences, and its opposite, ovate to 
broadly ovate, 5- or 7-nerved leaves. 
SYMPLOCACEAE 
SY M PLOCOS Jacquin 
SYMP LOCOS WEN2ELII sp. nov. § Bobua. 
Arbor circiter 10 m alta, ramulis subtus foliis ad costa ner- 
visque petiolisque prominente ciliato-hirsutis ; foliis coriaceis, 
oblongis vel oblongo-ovatis, usque ad 22 cm longis, utrinque an- 
gustatis, basi acutis, apice acuminatis apiculatisque, margine 
integris vel obscurissime distanter denticulatis, nervis utrinque 
circiter 10; inflorescentiis terminalibus, paniculatis, multifloris, 
circiter 13 cm longis, e basi ramosis, dense pubescentibus ; flori- 
bus circiter 9 mm diametro, sessilibus vel brevissime pedicellatis, 
