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Medinilla dementis sp. nov. 
Frutex glaber ut videtur scandens, ramulis angulatis, valde quadria- 
latis; foliis subcoriaceis, oppositis, petiolatis, oblongis, acuminatis, basi 
rotundatis vel leviter subcordatis, usque ad 28 cm longis, 7- vel 9-pliner- 
viis; inflorescentiis terminalibus, elongatis, bracteis parvis; floribus 
5-meris. 
A shrub, apparently scandent, glabrous throughout. Branches stout, 
4-angled, the angles winged, the wings 2 to 3 mm wide, the nodes setose. 
Leaves opposite, oblong, subeoriaceous, somewhat shining, 20 to 28 cm 
long, 7 to 11 cm wide, the apex acuminate, the base rather broad, rounded, 
often somewhat subcordate; nerves 7 or 9, the outer ones basal, the 
interior one or two pairs leaving the midrib shortly above the base and 
reaching the apex, the reticulations obsolete or nearly so ; petioles 2.5 
to 3 cm long. Inflorescence terminal, long-peduncled, slender, 25 to 
40 cm long, the branches few, short, the bracts 5 to 7 mm long. Pedicels 
about 1 cm long. Calyx cup-shaped, about 4 mm long, the limb somewhat 
produced, truncate. Petals 5, pink, narrowly obovate,' inequilateral, 
about 10 mm long, 5 mm wide. Stamens 10, equal, the filaments 6 mm 
long; anthers narrowly lanceolate, somewat curved, 6 mm long, the basal 
dorsal spur slender, less than 5.5 mm long, the anterior two auricles 
stout, about 1 mm long. Style slender, 13 mm long. 
Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Sacred Mountain near Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens 
s. n., July, 1907 (type), and between Camp Keithley and Malabang, Mrs. Clemens 
s. n., November, 1906. 
A species well characterized by the details given in the diagnosis; it is perhaps 
as closely allied to Medinilla teysmanni Miq. as to any other described form, but 
is quite different from Miquel’s species. 
Medinilla obovata sp. nov. 
Frutex epiphyticus, glaber, vel ramulis j unioribus plus minus brunneo- 
furfuraceis ; foliis parvis, verticillatis, ternis vel quarternis, coriaceis, 
obovatis, petiolatis, apice late rotundatis vel leviter retusis, vix 3 cm longis, 
triplinerviis, reticulis obsoletis; floribus ignotis, ut videtur 6-meris, longe 
pedicellatis, solitariis, vel in cymis paucifloris dispositis, axillaribus; 
fructibus urceolatis, limbo calycis producto truncato. 
A glabrous epiphytic shrub, or the ultimate branchlets more or less 
brown-furfuraceous. Branches stout, grayish, terete, the branchlets some- 
what quadrangular’, the internodes short, mostly less than 1 cm in length, 
the nodes not barbellate. Leaves whorled, in threes or fours, coriaceous, 
obovate, less than 3 cm long, and less than 1 cm in width, the apex 
broadly rounded or somewhat retuse, narrowed below to the cuneate base, 
the margins sometimes recurved; nerves 3 only, the lateral pair leaving 
the midrib shortly above the base, the reticulations obsolete ; petioles about 
5 mm long. Flowers unknown. Infrutescence axillary, the peduncles 
solitary, axillary, about 1 cm long, each bearing a single pedicel as long 
