VIII, c, 6 Merrill: Philippine Melastomataceae, II 359 
brownish-furfuraceous and with few, scattered, rather stout and 
soft, pale-brown papillae up to 8 mm in len^h. Leaves opposite, 
ovate-elliptic, chartaceous or subcoriaceous, 20 to 40 cm long, 
12 to 25 cm wide, apex shortly acuminate, base broad, rounded 
or slightly cordate, the upper surface glabrous and shining, pale 
yellowish-green when dry, the lower surface brownish, minutely 
and rather densely brownish-furfuraceous; nerves 7 to 9 from 
the base, the inner five prominent and reaching to the apex of 
the leaf, the outer two pairs more slender, the outermost, when 
present, submarginal ; transverse veinlets subparallel, numerous, 
prominent ; petioles 8 to 20 cm long, with scattered papillae simi- 
lar to those on the ultimate branchlets. Inflorescence terminal, 
dense, many-flowered, 10 cm long or less, all parts minutely 
brown-furfuraceous, not papillose or setose, the branches op- 
posite, the branchlets somewhat whorled; bracts lanceolate to 
narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, 1.5 to 2 cm long. Flowers red, 
subumbellately disposed at the ends of the branchlets, their 
pedicels 1 to 2 cm long. Calyx somewhat campanulate, about 
1 cm long, truncate, with 5, distant, small teeth 1 mm long or 
less. Petals 5, thick, imbricate, inequilateral, base rather broad, 
apex acuminate, oblong, about 3 cm long, 1 cm wide. Stamens 
10; filaments 3 to 3.5 cm long, about 1.5 mm wide, flattened; 
anthers oblong, about as wide as the filament, continuous with it, 
5 to 6 mm long, connective not at all produced, not spurred or 
auricled. Ovary 5-celled; ovules very numerous on all sides of 
the ascending placentae, the placentae attached at the lower 
inner angles of the cells; style slender, about 2.5 cm long; stigma 
punctiform. Fruit unknown. 
Mindanao, Butuan Subprovince, Agusan Valley, in dense, damp forests 
on the Umuayan River near Waloe, altitude about 50 m, Merrill 73U2, 
October 2, 1910. 
This beautiful and very characteristic species is dedicated to the memory 
of Mr. H. M. Ickis, late of the Division of Mines, Bureau of Science, who 
was killed by the Manobos on the Umuayan River above Waloe in April, 
1908. 
Beccarianthus has previously been a monotypic genus confined to Borneo, 
represented only by Beccarianthus pulcher Cogn., from Sarawak. The 
present form is manifestly referable to the same genus, but differs in 
its much larger leaves which are 7-nerved, and in its floral characters. 
Through the kindness of Doctor Beccari J have been able to examine a 
fragment of the type of the genus Beccarianthus, which was kindly loaned 
to me at the time I was working out the relationships of the proposed 
genus Everettia to Beccarianthus. 
