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MERRILL. 
MELASTOMATACEflE. 
M EDI N I LLA Gaudich. 
Medinilla monantha Merrill sp. liov. 
F rutex epiphytica, glabra; f lor i bus axillaribus, solitariis, longe tenui- 
ter pedieellatis, 4-meris; foliis oppositis, sessilibus, acximinatis, lanceo- 
latis, valcle 3-nervis. 
A glabrous epiphytic shrub. Branches slender, terete, reddish-brown 
or grayish. Leaves opposite, sessile, lanceolate, subcoriaceous, 3 to 4.5 
cm long, 8 to 12 mm wide, base acute, apex long-acuminate, acumen 
rather slender, blunt, the margins somewhat revolute; nerves 3, very 
prominent, extending from the base to the apex of the leaf. Flowers 
axillary, solitary," on very slender 10 to 14 mm long pedicels, each pedicel 
bearing two pairs of linear 1 to 1.5 mm long bracteoles. Calyx cup- 
shaped, about 3 mm long and wide, with 4 linear, acuminate, 1 mm 
long teeth, contracted abruptly below- into a 3 mm long pseudostalk, one 
pair of bracteoles at the base of the pseudostalk, one between these and 
the base of the pedicel. Petals and stamens not seen. Style 5 mm 
long. Fruit ovoid, about 4.5 mm long, 4 mm thick, glabrous, the calyx 
teeth persistent. 
Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Camp Keitliley, Mrs. Clemens 1136, July, 1907, also, 
without number, September, 1907. 
A very striking species, characterized by its small lanceolate 3-nerved leaves, 
and long-pedicellate, solitary, axillary flow&rs, the pedicels being supplied with 
two pairs of bracteoles, indicating that apparently the inflorescence is a reduced 
cyme. Allied to Medinilla myrtiformis Triana, but very distinct from that 
species. 
Medinilla bicolor Merrill sp. nov. 
Frutex erectus vel scan dens; ramulis paniculis et subtus foliis plus 
minus ferrugineo-plumoso-stellato-tomentosis; foliis oblongis, 20 ad 30 
cm longis, breviter acnminatis, oppositis, 5-nerviis; paniculis axillaribus, 
tenuibus, 13 ad 20 cm longis; fioribus«4-meris. 
An erect or seandent shrub, the branches gray, glabrous, terete, the 
branc-hlets more or less ferruginous-plumose-stellate-tomentose. Leaves 
opposite, oblong, short-acuminate, the base subacute or rounded, 20 to 
30 cm long, 5.5 to 7 cm wide, subcoriaceous, when dry pale above and 
reddish-brown beneath, glabrous above, beneath rather densely ferru- 
ginous-stellate-plumose-tomentose ; nerves 5, prominent beneath, the in- 
ner pair extending to the apex of the leaf, the outer pair to about the 
upper three-fourths, reticulations obsolete; petioles stout, 1 to 1.5 cm long, 
ferruginous-pubescent when young. Panicles axillary, slender, the rachis 
and branches, rather densely stellate-tomentose, the hairs somewhat plu- 
mose, spreading, the rachis very slender, its branches spreading, slender, 
1 to 1.5 cm long, each bearing about three flowers, the branches usually 
