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the end, 2.5 mm long, the anterior appendages oblong, about 1.5 
mm long. 
Mindanao, Butuan Subprovince, Mount Hilong-Hilong, Weber 1010, 
March 15, 1911 in forests, altitude about 150 m. 
A species manifestly very closely allied to Medinilla verticillata Merr., 
differing chiefly in its 6-merous flowers. It is possible that a large series 
of specimens would show the form here described to be specifically iden- 
tical with M. verticillata, with a range of floral organs from 4-merous to 
6-merous, for Mr. Elmer’s field notes state that in the type of the latter 
species about one-half of the flowers had 4 petals and 4-celled ovaries, and 
the other half 5 petals and 5-celled ovaries. I have, however, seen no 
5-merous and 6-merous flowers on the same plant, and they may not occur. 
All the flowers examined on Weber’s specimens were 6-merous. In habit, 
all vegetative characters, inflorescence, the unequal stamens and especially 
in the peculiar downward prolongation of the connectives of the long anthers, 
the two species are practically identical. 
2. MEDINILLA MEARNSII sp. nov. 
Frutex scandens, glaber, ramulis teretibus; foliis verticillatis, 
ut videtur ternis, ovatis, usque ad 15 cm longis, 5-plinerviis, 
breviter acuminatis, basi late rotundatis, petiole 3 ad 4 cm longo ; 
floribus 5-meris, axillaribus, breviter pedunculatis. 
A scandent glabrous shrub, the branches and branchlets 
terete. Leaves verticillate, usually 3 at each node, sometimes 4, 
coriaceous, ovate, 12 to 15 cm long, 6 to 8 cm wide, shortly and 
abruptly acuminate, base broadly rounded, 5-plinerved, the two 
interior nerves very prominent, reaching the apex of the leaf, 
the outer pair much fainter, extending to about the middle of 
the leaf, the reticulations obsolete; petioles rather stout, 3 to 
4 cm long. Inflorescence shortly peduncled, axillary, apparently 
having very few flowers, in the one observed the peduncle about 
5 mm long. Mature buds ellipsoid, the calyx about 12 mm 
long, truncate. Petals 5. 
Mindanao, Province of Misamis, Mount Malindang, For. Bur. 1^685 
Mearns & Hutchinson, May 16, 1906, in forests, altitude about 1000 m. 
A species manifestly allied to Medinilla verticillata Merr., differing 
especially in its leaves being broad and rounded at the base, not acute, 
with longer petioles, and its larger flowers. 
3. MEDINILLA ROLFEI sp. nov. 
Frutex glaber, ramis ramulisque teretibus, tenuibus; foliis 
verticillatis, quarternis, subcoriaceis, oblongo-ellipticis, acumi- 
natis, basi acutis, petiolatis, usque ad 5 cm longis, triplinervis ; 
inflorescentiis e axillis defoliatis, paucifloris, pedunculis ebrac- 
teolatis, 2 ad 3 cm longis ; floribus 5-meris, petalis 15 mm longis. 
