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in diameter, grayish, often striate, the younger ones 4-angled, 
4-winged, the wings narrow, crisped. Leaves opposite, char-: 
taceous or membranaceous, brownish-olivaceous when dry, of 
about the same color on both surfaces, shining, broadly ovate to 
elliptic-ovate, 15 to 20 cm long, 11 to 14 cm wide, the base 
rounded, the apex abruptly and rather prominently acuminate, 
the acumen nearly 1 cm long; nerves 13, prominent, leaving the 
midrib at intervals up to 4 cm above the base, the inner three 
pairs reaching the apex ; transverse nervules numerous, parallel, 
prominent; petioles 3 to 5 cm long. Inflorescence from the 
branches below the leaves, the peduncles solitary or fascicled, 1- 
to 3-flowered, about 1.5 cm long, the bracts few, lanceolate, about 
5 mm long. Flowers not seen. Fruits ovoid, green, glabrous, 
about 1.5 cm long, crowned by the truncate and minutely 6- 
denticulate calyx-rim, 6-celled. 
Leyte, Dagami, Mount Ibuni, Bur. Sci. 15386 Ramos, August 23, 1912, 
on trees in damp forests along streams. 
A very strongly marked species, characterized by its many-nerved, 
abruptly acuminate leaves which have very prominent subparallel trans- 
verse nervules, its branchlets narrowly 4-winged, the wings crisped, its 
short lateral inflorescences, and its large, 6-celled, fruits which are 6-dentic- 
ulate at the apex. It does not app.ear to be closely allied to any previously 
described species. 
27. MEDINILLA LOHERI sp. nov. 
Frutex erectus vel scandens, partibus junioribus plus minusve 
setosis, ramulis teretibus, nodis dense setosis ; foliis oppositis, in 
paribus valde inaequalibus, altero oblongo, acuminate, usque ad 
25 cm longo, pinnatim 5-plinervio, petiolato, altero sessile, 
spathulato, amplexicaule, 2 ad 3 cm longo; floribus racemosis, 
racemis axillaribus, brevibus, dense multifloris ; floribus 4-meris. 
A shrub, erect or scandent, the branches terete, the younger 
ones about 3 mm in diameter, hirsute-setose, the hairs pale, 
deciduous, the nodes very densely setose. Leaves opposite, char- 
taceous, those of each pair very unequal in size and shape, the 
larger of each pair oblong, 20 to 25 cm long, 7 to 11 cm wide, 
sometimes slightly falcate, flat, the lower surface much paler 
than the upper when dry, glabrous, apex slenderly and sharply 
acuminate, base somewhat inequilateral, rounded; nerves 5 on 
each side of the midrib, all leaving the midrib in the lower one- 
third, ascending, the innermost two pairs reaching the apex, 
prominent, the reticulations horizontal, subparallel, prominent; 
petiole about 2 cm long when young ciliate-hirsute, becoming 
glabrous : the smaller leaf of each pair sessile, clasping the stem. 
