VIII, c, 4 Meirill: Philippine Melastomataceae, I 219 
ince of Laguna, Bur. Sci. 10006, 12017, 15080, 16613, 16655 Raynos. Po- 
LILLO, Bur. Sci. 927It Robinson. 
There is no apparent reason why Naudin’s specific name should not 
be adopted, as it is not, according to the International Code of Botanical 
Nomenclature, invalidated by M. cumingianum Presl. The use of both the 
specific name cumingii and cumingianum to designate two different species 
in the same genus might cause some confusion, but, as is shown in the 
present paper, Presl’s Memecylon cumingianuyn is no longer valid, but 
becomes a synonym of M. lanceolatum Blanco. 
This characteristic endemic species, aside from its elongate, thickly 
coriaceous, prominently nerved, cordate leaves, is distinguished from allied 
forms by its somewhat brown-furfuraceous inflorescence and by its entirely 
terete ultimate branchlets. 
14. MEMECYLON PH AN EROPH LEBI U M sp. nov. 
Arbor parva, inflorescentiis parcissime furfuraceis exceptis 
glabra, ramis ramulisque teretibus ; foliis coriaceis, nitidis, 
oblongis ad oblongo-ellipticis, sessilibus, usque ad 18 cm longis, 
nervis submarginalibus prominentibus, nervis lateralibus circiter 
20, anastomosantibus, apice acute acuminatis, basi cordatis; 
cymis axillaribus, pedunculatis, solitariis, 2 ad 3 cm longis. 
A small tree, about 5 m high, glabrous except the inflorescence. 
Branches and branchlets terete, rather stout, brown. Leaves 
sessile, oblong to oblong-elliptic, coriaceous, 13 to 18 cm long, 
5 to 8 cm wide, base broadly rounded, cordate, apex rather 
sharply but shortly acuminate, both surfaces shining when dry, 
the upper olivaceous, the lower a little paler ; lateral nerves about 
20 on each side of the midrib, prominent, brown, anastomosing 
with the slightly arched submarginal nerves, the latter as prom- 
inent as the lateral ones. Cymes solitary, axillary, peduncled, 
2 to 3 cm long, slightly brown-furfuraceous, many-flowered, 
the peduncles 1 cm long or less. Flowers umbellately disposed 
on the ultimate branchlets, their pedicels 2 mm long, the brac- 
teoles triangular-ovate, acute or acuminate, about 1 mm long. 
Calyx about 3 mm in diameter, 2.5 mm high, broadly funnel- 
shaped, truncate, not at all toothed. Petals broadly ovate, obtuse 
or acute, 2 to 2.5 mm long. 
Leyte, mountains back of Dagami, Bur. Sci. 15375 Ramos, August, 1912, 
said to grow in the mossy forest. 
A species manifestly very closely allied to Memecylon 'paniculatum 
Jack, as here interpreted, but distinguished by its more numerously nerved 
leaves and closer nerves. 
15. MEMECYLON ELONGATUM sp. nov. 
Arbor parva, glabra; ramulis quadrangulatis, quadrialatis ; 
foliis crasse coriaceis, nitidis, oblongis vel anguste oblongis, 
breviter acuminatis, sessilibus, basi angustata rotundato-subcor- 
datis, 20 ad 35 cm longis, 3.5 ad 7 cm latis, nervis lateralibus 
