VIII, c, 6 Merrill: Philippine Melastomataceae, II 357 
3-nervia et prominente penninervia, nerviis intramarginalibus 
prominentibus. Flores magni, breviter pedicellati, ebracteolati, 
in cymas breves terminales dispositi. 
EVERETTIA PULCHERRIMA sp. nov. (Plate XII.) 
Arbor circiter 15 m alta ; foliis oppositis, longe petolatis, oblon- 
gis, coriaceis, usque ad 15 cm longis, acuminatis, basi rotundatis, 
3-nerviis, nervis lateralibus submarginalibus, nervis transversa- 
libus circiter 15 utrinque, prominentibus, supra glabris, subtus 
dense brunneo- vel ferrugineo-furfuraceis, vel vetustioribus 
subglabris, calycis circiter 1.5 cm longis. 
A tree about 15 m high. Branches stout, the branchlets 
obscurely and obtusely 4-angled or subterete, dark-brown, 
minutely and densely furfuraceous as are the petioles and cymes, 
the lenticels large, especially near the nodes. Leaves opposite, 
oblong, coriaceous, 10 to 15 cm long, 2.5 to 6.5 cm wide, entire, 
the base acute or obtuse, the apex somewhat acuminate or acute, 
the upper surface pale and yellowish-green when dry, shining, 
quite glabrous, the lower surface very densely and minutely 
furfuraceous, brown or somewhat reddish-brown, in very old 
leaves pale or green and subglabrous; midrib prominent, the 
nerves 2, extending from the base to the apex at from 1 to 3 
mm from the margin, straight, as prominent as, and anastomos- 
ing with the lateral nerves ; lateral nerves about 15 on each side of 
the midrib, straight, not at all curved at their attachment with 
the marginal nerves, prominent, the secondary transverse nerves 
sometimes nearly as prominent as the primary ones; petioles 
4 to 5 cm long. Cymes terminal, many-flowered, shortly pedun- 
cled, 6 to 12 cm long. Flowers large, 5- or 6-merous, the pedicels 
5 mm long or less, ebracteolate. Calyx campanulate, about 1.5 
cm long, the outside densely brown-furfuraceous, the lobes 5 or 
6, ovate, abruptly short-acuminate or acute, about 5 mm long. 
Petals 5 or 6, pink, or white and pink, elliptic, in nearly mature 
bud 1.6 cm long, obtuse. Stamens 10 or 12, in two rows, equal 
or subequal; filaments flattened below, about 1.5 cm long; 
anthers oblong, obtuse, 5 to 6 mm long, basifixed, connective not 
at all produced, inappendiculate. Style cylindric, about 1.8 cm 
long. Capsule included in the persistent calyx, depressed-globose, 
the apex truncate or depressed, about 1 cm in diameter, 5- or 
6-celled. Seeds very numerous, linear, about 2 mm long, ob- 
scurely 4-angled, slightly narrowed below. 
Negros, Mount Silay, Whitford 1538, May, 1906, on exposed ridges 100 
to 1200 m altitude; Canlaon Volcano, Phil. PL 24-9 Merrill, April, 1910, in 
