VIII, c, 4 Merrill: Philippine Melastomataceae, I 221 
arranged at the apex, the flower-bearing part of the inflorescence 
1.5 cm long or less. Flowers rather few, small, pedicelled, their 
pedicels 1 to 1.5 mm long, the subtending bracteoles about 0.5 
mm long. Calyx funnel-shaped, about 2 mm long and wide, 
truncate, obscurely 4-toothed. Petals 1.5 mm long. Buds 
acute. 
Luzon, Province of Rizal, Oriud, Loher 6278 (type), August, 1905; 
Mount Susong Dalaga, Bur. Sci. 1359U Ramos, August, 1911: Province of 
Cagayan, Caua Volcano, R. N. Clark, August, 1908. 
A characteristic species, similar to and manifestly allied to Memecylon 
venosum, but readily distinguished by the characters indicated in the 
diagnosis. The ultimate branchlets are 4-angled and narrowly 4-winged, 
which places the species, according to Cogniaux’s arrangement, near M. 
paniculatum Jack, to which M. loheri is otherwise not especially closely 
allied. 
17. MEMECYLON VENOSUM Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 3 (1908) Bot. 
154. 
Mindanao, District of Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens U32, s. n.. 
For. Bur. 15U6U Pray: District of Zamboanga, Merrill 8100. 
Endemic. 
18. MEMECYLON CORDIFOLIUM sp. nov. 
Frutex glaber, 2 ad 3 m altus, ramis teretibus, ramulis distincte 
4-angulatis vel sulcatis ; foliis sessilibus, ovatis ad oblongo- 
ovatis, coriaceis, 7 ad 10 cm longis, nitidis, sursum angustatis 
acuminatisque, basi latissime rotundatis, distincte cordatis, 
nervis utrinque circiter 10, distinctis, anastomosantibus, in- 
florescentiis axillaribus terminalibusque, solitariis, subcapitatis, 
paucifloris, pedunculo 1 ad 2 cm longo. 
A glabrous shrub 2 to 3 m high, the branches terete, brown, 
the branchlets slender, distinctly 4-angled or sulcate, not winged. 
Leaves sessile, ovate to oblong-ovate, coriaceous, 7 to 10 cm long, 
3 to 6 cm wide, narrowed from below the middle to the acumi- 
nate apex, the base very broadly rounded, cordate, when dry 
shining on both surfaces, the upper surface brownish-olivaceous, 
the lower much paler ; lateral nerves about 10 on each side of the 
midrib, slender, distinct but not particularly prominent, anas- 
tomosing with the somewhat arched submarginal nerves, the 
latter as prominent as the lateral ones. Inflorescence axillary 
and terminal, solitary, peduncled, of very much reduced, sub- 
capitate, few-flowered, simple cymes, the peduncles slender, 
somewhat sulcate, not 4-angled, up to 2 cm long, the flower- 
bearing part of the inflorescence subglobose, less than 1 cm in 
diameter. Calyx cup-shaped, about 3 mm in diameter, trun- 
cate, very obscurely 4-toothed, the pedicels at most 2 mm in 
