NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VIII. 
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Cephalomedinilla anisophylla sp. nov. 
Frutex scandens circiter 2 m altus; ramis teretibus, griseis, ramulis 
foliis junior ibus inflorescentiisque plus minus dense pilosis, pilis simpli- 
cibus, albis; foliis oppositis, elliptico-oblongis, chartaceis vel submem- 
branaceis, acuminatis, sessilibus, valde inaequalibus, majoribus usque ad 
15 cm longis, minoribus vix 2.5 cm longis ; nervis utrinque 4, curvato- 
adscendentibus ; inflorescentiis capitatis, axillaribus, solitariis, 1.5 ad 
2 cm diametro, dense multifloris, bracteis numerosis late oyatis involu- 
cratis ; floribus 4-meris, subsessilibus vel brevissime pedicellatis. 
A scandent shrub about 2 m high. Branches terete, rather slender, 
glabrous, light-gray, the younger branchlets densely pilose with long, 
simple, pale or brownish hairs. Leaves opposite, sessile, elliptic-oblong, 
chartaceous or submembranaceous, very unequal, the larger ones of each 
pair 12 to 15 cm long, 5 to 6 cm wide, the smaller ones 'less than 2.5 cm 
long and 1 cm wide, rather prominently acuminate, the base gradually 
narrowed, acute or obtuse, the younger ones more or less densely covered 
with pilose hairs, becoming quite glabrous; midrib prominent, the four 
pairs of lateral nerves leaving the midrib in the lower one-half of the 
leaf, the innermost two pairs reaching to the apex, curved-ascending, 
the reticulations transverse,' distinct, subparallel. Heads solitary, ses- 
sile, in the leaf-axils or in the axils of fallen leaves, hemispheric, 1.5 to 
2 cm in diameter, each with from 12 to 20 densely arranged subsessile 
flowers, each head subtended by about 10 broadly ovale, membranaceous, 
more or less pilose, somewhat acuminate, imbricate, pink or reddish 
bracts, 10 to' 11 mm long, 8 to 9 mm wide. Flowers 4-merous, pink, 
each subtended by two bracteoles, one elliptic-ovate, flat, the other entirely 
inclosing the bud, at length splitting down one side and when spread 
suborbieular-ovate, about 9 mm in diameter, cleft to the middle into two 
elliptic-ovate lobes, the sinus acute, the lobes faintly 3- to 5-nerved, 
more or less pilose. Calyx 6 to 7 mm long, ovoid, somewhat narrowed 
to the base, very densely pilose, with long, soft, simple, white hairs, the 
limb 4 mm long, cleft into four narrowly ovate, acute or acuminate, 2.5 
to 3 mm long lobes, pilose on both sides. Petals 4, imbricate, thin, 
glabrous, 8 to 9 mm long, narrowly oblong-obovate or obovate-sub- 
spatulate, much narrowed in the lower one-half, about 4. mm wide, the 
apex somewhat inequilateral, rounded or subacute. Stamens 8, equal; 
filaments slender, 5 mm long; anthers lanceolate, 4 mm long, somewhat 
curved, acuminate, opening by a terminal pore, the connective not at 
all produced, the base in front with two 1 short, more or less connate, 
somewhat curved, thick lobes less than 1 mm long, and with a small, 
0.3 mm long spur behind. Ovary adherent to the calyx, 4-celled, the 
top densely pilose with long white hairs; ovules many, the placenta 
