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5 to 7 mm thick, densely covered with pedicel- and bract-scars, setose; 
pedicels about 5 mm long, the bracteoles numerous, exceeding the flowers, 
about 18 mm long, spatulate, the limb elliptical-ovate, obtuse, G mm 
long, 5 mm wide. Calyx 4 mm in diameter, truncate. Petals 5, in- 
equi laterally obovate, apex oblique-sub truncate, retuse-apiculate, 7 to 
8 mm long, 5 mm wide. Stamens 10, subequal; filaments and anthers 4 
mm long. Fruit ovoid, black, glabrous, about 1 cm in diameter, crowned 
by the persistent calyx. 
Negros, Cadiz Nuevo, For. Bur. J/22.} Everett, February, 1906. Mindanao, 
Province of Surigao, Bolster 290, April, 1906. 
A species quite different from any in the genus, characterized by its congested, 
cylindrical inflorescence. According to Everett the inflorescence is red and the 
flowers have an offensive odor when fresh. 
Med in ilia congesta sp. nov. 
Ramis teretibus, giabris; ramulis, foliis subtus, paniculisque plus 
minus dense setosis; foliis oppositis 3-nerviis, oblongo-ellipticis, acutis 
vel breviter acuminatis, coriaceis, ea. 12 cm longis, sessilibus ; inflores- 
centiis ca. 18 cm longis, longe pedunculatis, pedunculis gracilibus, den- 
sissime setosis ; floribus 4-meris, congestis, valde bracteatis, prope ad apices 
ramul orum umbellatis. 
A slump, the branches light-gray, terete, glabrous, the branchlets 
slightly setose, the nodes very densely setose with subulate chaffy scales 
1 cm long or less. Leaves opposite, coriaceous, pale, shining, oblong- 
elliptical, 10 to 14 cm long, 4 to 6.5 cm wide, margins somewhat revolute, 
sessile or subsessile, the base somewhat clasping, strongly 3-nerved, rarely 
with a supplementary pair of faint marginal nerves, the apex acute or 
short-acuminate, glabrous above, beneath with numerous long setose hairs, 
especially on the nerves. Inflorescence axillary (?), the peduncle very 
densely setose, about 1,2 cm long, slender, the flowers crowded at the 
apex, forming an oblong, rather dense head, 6 cm long and 3 cm thick, 
its branches about 1 cm long, densely setose, each bearing at its apex two 
or three, obovoid, slightly setose bracts about 12 mm long, and 5 to 7 
short-pedicelled flowers, each flower subtended by three narrowly obo- 
void 1 cm long bracteoles, the pedicels densely setose, about 3 mm long. 
Calyx urceolate, the tube ovoid, 2 mm long, the limb produced, 2 mm 
long, somewhat spreading, truncate,, with 4 nerves corresponding to teeth. 
Petals 4, about 10 mm long, 5.5 mm wide, narrowly inequilaterally obo- 
void, apex obtuse, oblique. Stamens 4; anthers 5 mm long. 
Mindoro, Mount Sablayan, For. Bur. 9160 Merritt, March, 1908, in forests 
on exposed ridges at 1,000 m alt. 
A species well characterized by its long-pedunculate, dense inflorescence which 
is densely setose, 4-merous, 3-bracteolate flowers, and sessile, strongly 3-nerved, 
opposite leaves. 
