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MERRILL. 
4.5 mm long, 6 opposite the sepals with filaments 3.5 mm long; anthers 
0.7 mm long. Ovary inferior, l-celled; ovules 12 on a central placenta, 
pendulous from the inner upper angle ; style slender, 7 mm long ; 
stigma small, disciform. Fruit unknown, but the calyx accrescent, in the 
immature specimens 1.7 cm long, when mature probably much longer. 
Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Port Banga, For. Bur. 0111 Whitford & 
Hutchinson, December 9, 1907, in the dipterocarp forest at an altitude of about 
20 m above the sea. 
A curious genus well characterized by its strongly sagittate petals, from which 
the generic name is taken, these being long-clawed and irregularly lacerate-fim- 
briate, its 6-merous flowers, 12 stamens, of which the 6 opposite the petals are 
longer than the 6 opposite the sepals, and its l-celled ovary with 12 pendulous 
ovules. It is apparently closely allied to Carallia but seems to be generically 
distinct. 
MELASTOMATACE2E. 
MEMECYLON I jinn. 
Memecylon densiflorum sp. nov. 
Ramulis acute tetragonis, non alatis; foliis ovato-oblongis, eoriaceis, 
nitidis, 4- ad 5.5 cm longis, 1-nerviis, nervulis transversalibus obsoletis, 
apice breviter obscure acuminatis, aeuminibus obtusis, basi cuneatis; 
cymis axillaribus, subsessilibus vel breviter pedunculatis, fasciculatis, 
subcapitatis, densis, ca. 1.3 cm diam. 
Erect, glabrous, the branches brown or grayish, slender, terete, the 
branchlets 4-angled. Leaves coriaceous, shining, ovate-oblong, 4 to 5.5 
cm long, 1.5 to 2.5 cm wide, base acute, apex shortly obscurely acuminate, 
the acumen blunt, sometimes subobtuse; midrib prominent, the lateral 
nerves obsolete; petioles slender, 5 mm long or less. Cymes axillary, 
fasciculate, subsessile or with peduncles 2 to 3 mm long densely many- 
flowered, forming subcapitate heads about 1.3 cm in diameter, the 
pedicels ebraeteolate, about 2 mm long. Calyx funnel-shaped, 1.8 mm 
long and wide, truncate. Petals ovate, acuminate, about 2 mm long, 
1.2 nun wide. Filaments 3 mm long; anthers 1.2 mm long. 
Mindanao, Province of Surigao, Bolster 36S, October, 1906; Ahern 515, 
February-May, 1901, V., Bahagion. 
A species allied to Memecylon cumingianum Presl, but readily distinguished 
by its dense capitate inflorescence; apparently also allied to M. pauciflorum 
Blume. 
MEDINILLA Blume. 
Medinilla philippensis (Cham. & Schlecht.) comb. nov. 
Axnnth.es philippensis Cham. & Schlecht. in Linnaea 4 (1829) 193. 
Luzon, without locality given, but from Cavite Province between the town of 
Cavite and Taal Lake, Ohamisso, in Herb. Berol. (type) : Province of Cavite, 
Mendez Nunez, Bur. Bci. 131/1 Mangubat, August, 1900. 
This interesting species was based on very fragmentary material, the type, 
which 1 have examined in the Beilin Herbarium, consisting of a single detached 
