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furfuraceous, 1 to 1.5 cm long. Cymes terminal, furfuraceous- 
stellate with brown hairs, erect, shortly peduncled, few-flowered, 
3 cm long or less, the pedicels about 3 mm in length. Bracts 
and bracteoles elliptic-oblong, narrowed and more or less acumi- 
nate at both ends, stellate-pubescent, 5-nerved, dark-red, per- 
sistent, up to 18 mm long, 8 to 9 mm wide. Calyx in fruit 
stellate-furfuraceous, nearly 1 cm long, urceolate, the limb ex- 
tended about 4 mm above the fruit, 5-lobed, the lobes or teeth 
ovate, acute or obtuse, about 3 mm long, dark-red. 
Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Infanta, Mount Binuang, Bur. Sci. 9398 
Robinson, August 28, 1909, in the mossy forest, altitude about 960 m. 
A species allied to Medinilla luzonensis Hook, f., differing in its fewer- 
nerved leaves, longer petioles, erect inflorescence, much larger and differ- 
ently shaped bracts, and in many other characters. 
21. MEDINILLA CALCICOLA sp. nov. 
Frutex circiter 1 m altus, ramulis petiolis subtus folds inflo- 
rescentiisque dense stellato-tomentosis ; folds oppositis, in paribus 
subaequadbus, coriaceis, acute acuminatis, basi acutis pinnatim 
3-pdnerviis, oblongis vel anguste oblongo-eldpticis, usque ad 18 
cm longis ; inflorescentiis lateradbus, brevibus, paucifloris, 
bracteis prominentibus rubro-purpureis instructis ; floribus 
5-meris, calycibus prominente 5-dentatis. 
A shrub about 1 m high. Branches terete, glabrous, pale-gray, 
the branchlets very densely stellate-tomentose, the indumentum 
pale, plumose. Leaves opposite, those of each pair equal or 
subequal, oblong to narrowly elliptic-oblong, subequady narrowed 
at both ends, the apex acuminate, usually sharply so, the base 
acute, 10 to 18 cm long, 3 to 6.5 cm wide, the upper surface 
pale, shining, glabrous, the lower one very densely stellate- 
tomentose, the veins stellate-plumose, the indumentum pale- 
brownish; nerves two pairs, the outer pair subbasal, extending 
nearly or quite to the apex of the leaf, sometimes with a very 
short, additional outermost pair, the inner pair leaving the midrib 
from 2 to 6 cm above the base, reaching the apex, there anasto- 
mosing with the midrib; reticulations faint, obsolete or nearly 
so; petioles densely stellate-plumose-tomentose, stout, 1.3 to 2 
cm long. Inflorescence axillary, about as long as the petioles, 
stellate-tomentose, the indumentum plumose, pale-brownish. 
Bracts reddish-purple, prominent, broadly ovate, obtuse, stellate- 
tomentose on both surfaces, about 15 mm long. Flowers 5- 
merous. Calyx stellate-tomentose, depressed-globose about 5 mm 
in diameter, the limb produced about 3 mm, divided half-way 
into five, broad, rounded or truncate teeth. Petals obliquely 
