xi, c, i Merrill: Plants from Sorsogon Province, Luzon 25 
the midrib, slender, scarcely more evident than the secondary 
ones, anastomosing with a faint submarginal nerve, the leaf 
margin revolute; petioles about 1 cm long. Inflorescence ter- 
minal, corymbose, in fruit about 7 cm long and wide, peduncled, 
the flowers apparently in triads on the ultimate branchlets. 
Young fruit cylindric to somewhat sausage-shaped, up to 1.5 cm 
long and 7 mm in diameter, nearly mature ones oblong-ellipsoid, 
about 2.5 cm long, subequally narrowed at both ends, all very 
hard when dry and brownish-purple in color. 
Luzon, Province of Sorsogon, Bulusan Volcano, Bur. Sci. 23670 Ramos, 
September 4, 1915, in forests on the lower slopes. 
The species is perhaps in the same group as Eugenia crassibracteata 
Merr., but is much larger in all respects, has quite diiferently shaped 
leaves, and a different inflorescence. The cylindric or sausage-shaped 
immature fruits, which are very hard when dry, are very characteristic. 
MELASTOMATACEAE 
MEDINILLA Gaudichaud 
M EDI N I LLA SORSOGON ENSIS sp. nov. 
Frutex scandens, glaber, ramis ramulisque crassis, acute 
tetragonis; foliis oppositis, petiolatis, oblongis, acuminatis, basi 
acutis vel rotundatis, 5-nerviis, usque ad 24 cm longis; inflores- 
centiis lateralibus, solitariis, umbellatis, breviter pedunculatis, 
paucifloris, floribus 4-meris, staminibus subaequalibus. 
A scandent glabrous shrub apparently of small size, the 
branches stout, about 1 cm in diameter, acutely 4-angled, not 
setose at the nodes. Leaves opposite, petiolate, membranaceous 
when dry, oblong, 16 to 24 cm long, 6 to 8 cm wide, base acute 
or rounded, apex slenderly acuminate, olivaceous when dry, some- 
what shining; nerves all basal, the inner pair more prominent 
than the outer, the transverse nervules very slender, obscure; 
petioles 3 to 4 cm long. Inflorescence lateral, solitary, scattered 
along the stem, consisting of short-peduncled, few-flowered 
umbels, the peduncles 1 to 1.5 cm long, slender. Flowers 
4-merous, usually about 5 in each umbel, their pedicels 1 cm long 
or less. Calyx obconic, about 7 mm long, the limb produced, 
truncate. Petals irregularly oblong-obovate, about 12 mm long. 
Stamens subequal, the lanceolate anthers 10 mm long, curved, 
acuminate. 
Luzon, Province of Sorsogon, Mount Pocdal, Bur. Sci. 23556 Ramos, 
August 6, 1915, in the mossy forest. 
This species is manifestly closely allied to Medinilla polillensis C. B. 
Rob., which it greatly resembles. That species, however, has prominently 
3- or 5-plinerved leaves, while the present one has distinctly 5-nerved ones. 
