ALABASTRA PHILIPPINENSIA, II. 
MELASTOMATACEAE. 
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DISSOCHAETA Blume. 
Dissochaeta celebica Blume Mus. Bot. Lud'g.-Bat. 1 (1849) 30. 
Collected at an elevation of 900 m at Todaya, District of Davao, Mindanao, 
by It. S. Williams, no. 2571, in flower and fruit, April 4, 1905. Native (Bogobo) 
name, Bogin. 
The specimen agrees almost perfectly with the descriptions of Blume and of 
King in his Materials for a Flora of the Malay Peninsula, the slight divergences 
being in the direction of D. intermedia Bl. 
Now first reported from the Philippines, but of wide Malayan distribution, 
being known from Celebes, Borneo, Bangka, and the Malay Peninsula. 
ME DIN ILL A Gaudich. 
Medinilla apoensis sp. nov. 
Frutex ; floribus paniculatis, terminal] bus vel subterminalibus, penta- 
meris; bracteolis magnis, caducis, pedicellis articulatis, calyce subtrun- 
cato; foliis ellipticis vel oblongis, 7-nerviis, breviter petiolatis, basi 
acutis, apice breviter acuminatis, coriaceis; noclis setosis. 
Flowers in terminal or snbterminal panicles 6-9 cm long, the ultimate 
flowering pedicels 3. 5-4.5 mm long, elongating in fruit, having at their 
bases caducous membranaceous oblanceolate bracteoles 12 mm long, 
conspicuously articulated with the flowers : calyx with a pseudostalk 
1.5 mm long, this also subsequently elongating, in all 6-7 nun long, 
broadly cup-shaped, projecting 1.5 mm beyond the ovary, its margin 
subtruncate, the 5 obscure lobes very shallow and rounded; petals 
probably 5, elliptic, 11 mm long, 4.5 mm wide, their apices very shortly 
and obtusely acuminate, the margins involute; stamens 10, the filaments 
3 mm long, the anthers 2 mm long, the base of the connective with a 
spur 0.8 mm long and on each side a minute lobe; ovary 5-celled with 
numerous ovules, the style 7 mm long, gradually narrowed upwards, the 
stigma capitate, minute, but exceeding in width the apex of the style: 
fruit subglobose, 7 mm in diameter, rimmed at the top by the persistent 
calyx, attached by a pseudostalk now attaining a length of 7 mm and 
a pedicel attaining 9 mm, 5-celled, with numerous seeds ; seeds concavo- 
convex in outline, 0.7 mm long, 0.5 mm wide, the testa white. 
A spreading bush 3 m high, setose at the nodes, but otherwise 
glabrous, the bark of the ultimate branches gray, terete, slightly striate 
and lenticellate ; leaves borne on petioles 5-8 mm long, the lamina 
coriaceous, bluish-green on the upper surface, elliptic or oblong, 10-20 
cm long, 4. 4-9. 5 cm wide, acute and slightly decurrent at the base, 
shortly acuminate at the apex, 7 -nerved, the outer nerve of each side less 
conspicuous than the others; primary lateral veins on each side of the 
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