VIII, C, 5 
Merrill: Plantae Wenzelianae 
385 
cm long; stipules linear-lanceolate, sparingly stellate, acuminate, 
1 to 1.5 cm long, numerous, crowded in the upper parts of the 
pseudo-verticils. Inflorescences in the upper axils, about 20 cm 
long, stellate-pubescent with reddish-brown or dark-brown hairs, 
with few, scattered, spreading branches 5 to 6 cm long. Flowers 
few, yellowish, staminate and perfect ones in the same panicle. 
Staminate flowers: Calyx brown when dry, stellate-pubescent, 
about 10 mm long, the lobes oblong, obtuse or subacute, 3 mm 
wide, 6 mm long, quite free, not at all cohering by their tips. 
Stamens 10, on a short stalk, the anthers 0.6 mm long, a rudimen- 
tary ovary sometimes present. Perfect flowers: Calyx stellate- 
pubescent, 16 cm long, the tube 8 mm long, villous within, the 
lobes oblong-lanceolate, cohering by their inarched tips. Ovary 
on a glabrous 1 mm long stalk, subglobose or ovoid, 2 mm in 
diameter, usually 3-celled, densely hirsute; style hirsute, about 
1 mm long; ovules numerous; stigma broadly 3-lobed, 1.5 mm 
in diameter. 
Leyte, Dagami, C. A. Wenzel 93, March 15, 1913, in forests. 
A manifest ally of Sterculia cuneata R. Br., S. stipularis R. Br., etc., 
but well characterized by its divaricately branched, few-flowered inflores- 
cence. 
MELASTOMATACEAE 
MEDINILLA Gaudichaud 
MEDINILLA ALBIFLORA sp. nov. (§ Eumedinilla.) 
Frutex epiphyticus, glaber, 2 m altus ; ramis crassis, teretibus, 
ramulis obscure crasseque 4-alatis vel tantum sulcatis; foliis 
oppositis, coriaceis, sessilibus, 25 ad 30 cm longis, ovato-ellipticis, 
basi angustatis, prominente 5-plinerviis ; inflorescentiis termi- 
nalibus, paniculatis, paniculis brevibus, paucifloris, ebracteatis; 
floribus 5-meris, albis, petalis circiter 18 mm longis. 
An epiphytic shrub about 2 m high, quite glabrous except for 
the obscurely setose nodes. Branches stout, terete, brown, about 
1 cm in diameter, the growing branchlets nearly as thick, very 
obscurely and thickly 4-winged or merely sulcate. Leaves op- 
posite, sessile, coriaceous, ovate-elliptic, 25 to 30 cm long, 15 to 
17 cm wide, rather dull when dry, the lower surface slightly 
paler than the upper, the apex shortly acuminate, prominently 
narrowed below, the very base about 3 cm wide, 5-plinerved, 
the nerves prominent, the interior pair reaching the apex, the 
exterior pair evanescent at the middle or upper two-thirds, 
the transverse nervules nearly obsolete on the lower surface, 
slender but distinct on the upper. Panicles terminal, few- 
flowered, peduncled, about 12 cm long, without bracts or brae- 
