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elliptic-ovate, 10 to 23 cm long, 8 to 14 cm wide, shining and of 
about the same color on both surfaces when dry, the base broadly 
rounded, the apex shortly and abruptly acuminate; base 7-pli- 
nerved, the outermost pair more slender than the inner ones, 
reaching to the middle or above, the inner two pairs reaching the 
apex of the leaf, the innermost pair leaving the midrib 2 to 2.5 
cm above the base, the reticulations or cross-veinlets few, very 
distant, or obsolete. Panicles axillary, solitary, pendulous, up 
to 50 cm in length, the branches whorled, the lower ones up 
to 14 cm long, the whorls few, distant. Flowers 4-merous, 
pink, subumbellately arranged on the ultimate branchlets, few, 
their pedicels slender, 8 to 10 mm long, the bracts none or small 
and very early deciduous. Calyx cup-shaped, truncate, 4 mm 
long. Petals obliquely obovate, 8 mm long. Stamens 8, sub- 
equal, their filaments 4.5 mm long, the anthers lanceolate, acu- 
minate, as long as the filaments, the posterior basal appendage 
less than 0.5 mm long, the anterior two short, stout, curved. 
Fruit purple, fieshy, about 8 mm in diameter. 
Camiguin de Mindanao, on damp slopes in forests, old volcano. Bur. Sci. 
H639 Ramos, March 29, 1912. 
A species manifestly allied to Medinilla vanoverherghii Merr., of Luzon, 
distinguished by the characters given in the diagnosis. 
8. MEDINILLA SESSILIFOLIA sp. nov. 
Frutex epiphyticus glaber, ramulis ut videtur carnosis, in 
siccitate plus minusve compressis; foliis oppositis, sessilibus, 
in siccitate membranaceis, obovatis ad obovato-ellipticis, usque 
ad 20 cm longis, apice brevissime acuminatis, basi angustatis, 
obtusis, 3-plinerviis, reticulis distinctis, laxissimis; infiorescen- 
tiis brevibus, paucifioris, e ramis defoliatis; fructibus succulen- 
tis, 4-locellatis, ovoideis, truncatis, circiter 8 mm diametro. 
An epiphytic glabrous shrub, apparently scandent, the branches 
stout, emitting numerous short roots, the branchlets apparently 
succulent when fresh, more or less compressed and about 6 mm 
wide when dry. Leaves opposite, sessile, obovate to obovate- 
elliptic, 11 to 20 cm long, 6 to 12 cm wide, when fresh apparently 
coriaceous, when dry thinly membranaceous, shining, of the 
same color on both surfaces, the apex abruptly and shortly 
acuminate to nearly rounded, the base narrowed, obtuse, 3-pli- 
nerved, the lateral nerves stout, prominent, leaving the very 
stout midrib 1 to 2 cm above the base and extending to the apex, 
the reticulations distinct, very lax. Flowers not seen, the in- 
florescences numerous, scattered along the branches below the 
