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in whorls of three, the bracts and bracteoles subulate, 1.5 to 3 mm long, 
the pedicels about 3 mm long. Calyx ovoid, about 5 mm in diameter, 
rugose when dry, the limb slightly produced, obscurely 4-toothed, 
glabrous. Petals 4, broadly irregularly obovate, 4 to 4.5 mm long, 3 to 
3.5 mm wide, obtuse, glabrous. Stamens 8, subequal; filaments 2.5 mm 
long; anthers 3 mm long. 
Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens 51J/, 885, April, 1906, 
January, 1907. 
A species apparently allied to Medinilla coralline, Cogn., of Borneo (ex descr.), 
well characterized by its ferruginous-stellate-plumose pubescence, the leaves 
reddish-brown beneath and pale above, and its slender panicles. 
MELASTOMA Bunn. 
Melastoma lanaense Merrill sp. nov. 
Frutex erectus, ramis ramulis petiolisque plus minus dense ferrugineo- 
hirsutis et squamulis parvis, ovatis vel lanceolatis, acuminatis, plus minus 
ciliatis, obtectis; foliis elliptieo-ovatis vel late ellipticis, acuminatis, 5- 
nerviis, subcoriaceis, subtus plus minus hirsutis, et paleis numerosis lan- 
ceolatis, patulis, acuminatis, praesertim ad nervos obsitis; calycis lobis 
tubum aequantibus, dentibus subulatis, penieillatis, 2.5 mm longis alter- 
nantibus, paleolis lanceolatis, penieillato-acuminatis, plus minus denti- 
culatis vel pauce fimbriatis, 2 mm longis, subpatulis, non fasciculatis, 
dense obtectis ; floribus 5-meris, ca. 3 cm longis. 
An erect shrub, the branches, branchlets and petioles rather densely 
ferruginous-hirsute and with numerous ovate or lanceolate, acuminate, 
somewhat ciliate, more or less spreading or appressed scales. Leaves 
elliptical-ovate . to broadly elliptical, subcoriaceous, 8 to 17 cm long, 3 
to 8.5 cm wide, apex acuminate, base acute, dull, above with numerous 
more or less appressed subulate scales, beneath more or less hirsute, 
and with scattered, ovate, more or less ciliate, usually appressed scales, 
especially on the nerves; nerves 5, prominent, the cross-nervules numer- 
ous, parallel, slightly curved; petioles 1.5 to 3.5 cm long. Flowers 
5-merous, pink, usually in threes, short-pedicellate or subsessile. Calyx 
tube 1.5 cm long, 8 mm thick, the lobes 5, lanceolate, acuminate, 1.5 cm 
long, 4 mm wide, the alternating teeth linear-lanceolate, penicillate- 
acuminate,, 2.5 mm long, 1 mm wide at the base, the margins more or 
less ciliate-lacerate, the tube and backs of the teeth densely covered with 
closely imbricate, lanceolate, penicillate-acuminate palea?, about 2 mm 
long, 0.7 mm wide, their margins denticulate and often somewhat fim- 
briate, not fasciculate, their upper portions somewhat spreading. Petals 
obovate, 2.5 cm long, 1.8 cm wide, rouqded, the apical margins ciliate- 
liispid. Anthers 7 mm long, the appendage to the connective about 1.4 
mm long. Bracts and bracteoles, if any, caducous. 
Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens s. n., July and Septem- 
ber, 1907, and no. 836, November, 1906. 
