NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VIII. 
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Medinilla cauliflora sp. nov. 
Arbuscula eirciter 3 m alta, foliis junioribus subtus ad nervos, 
ramulisque plus minus plumoso-stellato-tomentosis ; foliis oppositis, 
membranaceis, acuminatis, elliptico-ovatis, basi angustatis, 5-plinerviis, 
breviter petiolatis ; inflorescentiis caulifloris, densissime confertis ; floribus 
4-meris, bracteatis, calycibus obscure 4-angulatis, 4-lobatis, lobis 5-7- 
nerviis ; staminibus 8, admodum inaequalibus, antheris postice longe 
calcaratis. 
A shrub about 3 m high, the branchlets and the younger leaves on the 
midrib and nerves beneath more or less covered with soft, stellate-plumose 
hairs. Branches rather slender, grayish, terete or obscurely 4-angled, the 
upper axils more or less bearded. Leaves opposite, membranaceous, ellip- 
tic-ovate, 9 to 15 cm long, 4 to 7.5 cm wide, the apex shortly acuminate, 
the base narrowed and acute or slightly acuminate ; nerves three on each 
side of the midrib, leaving it in the lower one-third, curved-ascending, the 
innermost pair reaching to the apex, distinct, the transverse reticulations 
slender, distant, not prominent; petioles 5 mm long or less, sometimes 
subobsolete. Inflorescence on the trunk below the leaves, of very short, 
congested branches, forming a compact mass 8 cm in diameter or less, the 
branches stout, each bearing many, subdistichous, oblong-ovate, crowded, 
9 to 10 mm long bracts which are acute or obtuse, some empty, some 
subtending flowers. Flowers pink or red, 4-merous, glabrous, the pedicels 
stout, 4 mm long. Calyx obovoid, becoming more or less urceolate, 
obscurely 4-angled, 6 mm long, constricted below the limb, the limb 
produced, 2.5 to 3 mm long, cleft nearly to its base into four, broadly 
ovate, 5- to 7-nerved, apiculate lobes. Petals obovate, 7 to 8 mm long, 
4 to 5 mm wide, the apex strongly inequilateral, obliquely truncate, 
base narrowed. Stamens 8, the filaments of four about 5 mm long, of 
the other four 5.5 mm in length; anthers equal, 3.5 mm long, oblong- 
lanceolate, slightly curved, opening by a single terminal pore, the base 
with a slender, curved, dorsal spur nearly 2 mm in length, in front with 
two stouter, curved auricles less than 1 mm long. Ovary 4-eelled, the 
lower one-half adherent to the calyx, free above, the top more or less 
conical, glabrous; style joined with the ovary, at least 5 mm long; stigma 
punctiform. Berry globose, fleshy, pink, 7 to 8 mm in diameter ; seeds in- 
definite, 0.7 to 0.8 mm long. 
Negros, Canlaon Volcano, For. Bur. 17397 Curran, September, 1909, in forests 
at an altitude of about 1,200 m. 
A species well characterized by its dense, cauline inflorescence and its 4-lobed 
calyx-limb, the lobes distinctly nerved. It is apparently not very closely allied, to 
any described species. 
