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the basal dorsal appendage 1.5 mm long, the two anterior ones 
2.2 mm long; shorter anthers lanceolate, acuminate, 10 mm long, 
the dorsal appendage narrowly oblong, obtuse, 2 mm long, the 
anterior two about 3 mm long. Ovary 5-celled. 
Leyte, Dagami, Bur. Sci. 1522i Ramos, August 6, 1912, climbing on 
trees in forests, flowers said to be white. 
A strongly marked species, distinguishable by its minute, dark-brown, 
furfuraceous indumentum, its verticillate, slightly cordate, abruptly apicu- 
late-acuminate, 7 or 9-plinerved leaves, and its lateral inflorescence. 
23. MEDINILLA HIRSUTA sp. nov. 
Frutex erectus 2 ad 3 m altus, ramulis subtus foliis inflores- 
centiisque plus minusve dense setoso-hirsutis ; foliis oppositis, 
oblongo-obovatis, basi angustatis, sessilibus vel subsessilibus, 
pinnatim 9-plinerviis ; inflorescentiis axillaribus, brevibus, 
densis, bracteis bracteisque ovatis ad orbiculari-ovatis, usque ad 
14 mm longis, persistentibus, hirsutis ; floribus ignotis ; fructibus 
ovoideis, 5-locellatis, dense hirsutis. 
An erect shurb 2 to 3 m high. Branches terete, light-gray, 
the older ones glabrous, the younger parts densely hirsute-setose 
with long, spreading, pale hairs, the nodes very densely setose. 
Leaves opposite, chartaceous, of about the same color on both 
surfaces when dry, rather pale, oblong-obovate, 10 to 18 cm 
long, 4 to 9 cm wide, apex acuminate, base spatulately narrowed, 
sessile or subsessile, the upper surface glabrous, the lower surface 
prominently hirsute with spreading hairs, especially on the 
nerves, nerves 4 pairs, all leaving the midrib in the lower one-half 
or one-third, ascending, the two inner pairs reaching the apex of 
the leaf, about as prominent as the midrib, the next outer pair 
reaching beyond the middle, there becoming obsolete, the basal 
pair much shorter. Inflorescence axillary, short, few-flowered, 
3 cm long or less, all parts hirsute with long, pale, spreading 
hairs. Flowers unknown. Bracts persistent, greenish-white, 
broadly ovate to suborbicular, 10 to 14 mm long, 5- to 7-nerved, 
concave, setose-hirtuse on the outside. Pedicels about 5 mm 
long, setose. Fruit ovoid, about 8 mm long, densely hirsute with 
pale spreading hairs, green, the limb with 5 rather broad teeth. 
Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Sax River Mountains back of San 
Ramon, Merrill 8296, November 27, 1911, in forests, altitude about 900 m. 
Basilan, Bur. Sci. 16085 Reillo, Sept., 1912. 
Well characterized by its setose-hirsute indumentum; very closely allied 
to Medinilla attenuata Elm., which it greatly resembles, from which it 
apparently differs in its larger, always opposite, more numerously nerved 
leaves. 
