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MERRILL, 
Medinilla microphylla Merrill n. sp. 
Frutex scandens; ramis ramulis petiolis bracteis calycibus foliisque 
praeeipue ad nervos stellato-tomentosis ; ramis teretibus; foliis oppositis, 
oblongo-ovatis, 5-nervis, 2 ad 4.5 cm. longis ; cyrnis terminalibus, pauci- 
floribus, bracteis roseis persistentibus ; floribus 4-meris. 
Scandent along tree trunks, the stems and branches terete, slender, the 
younger parts densely stellate-plumose-tomentose. Leaves • submembran- 
ous, oblong-ovate, 2 to 4.5 cm. long, 1 to 2 cm. wide, nearly glabrous above, 
beneath densely stellate-plumose-tomentose on the nerves, base acute, apex 
short-acuminate; nerves 5; petioles 0.5 mm. long, or less. Inflorescence 
terminal, usually reduced to a single flower subtended by about 6 pink 
bracts. Bracts narrowly elliptical-ovate, base and apex acute, 3-nerved, 
stellate-pubescent, 1.8 cm. long, 1 cm. wide. Fruit subglobose, somewhat 
stellate-pubescent, nearly 1 cm. long, the cafyx persistent, 6 mm. long, the 
tube 2 mm., the lobes ovate, acute, 4 mm. long. 
In forests at 900 m. alt. ( No. 5599 ) . 
Medi nilla sp. 
In forests at 1,S00 m. alt. (No. 5667), specimens in fruit only. 
Medinilla sp. 
In forests at 900 m. alt. (No. 4368 Merritt ) June, 1906, material in poor 
condition. 
Medinilla sp. 
In forests at 1,300 m. alt. (No. 4382 Merritt) June, 1906. The last three 
species enumerated are all distinct from each other and different from any of 
the species represented at present in our herbarium, but the specimens are incom- 
plete and are accordingly not described here. 
ASTRONIA Blume. 
Astronia meyeri Merr. in Govt. Lab. Publ. 35 (1906) 51. 
In forests at 550 m. alt. (No. 4347 Merritt) June, 1906. 
Previously known from Mount Mariveles, Luzon. 
MEMECYLON Linn. 
Memecylon preslianum Triana in Trans. Linn. Soe. 28 (1871) 157. 
In forests at 100 m. alt. (No. 5604). 
Widely distributed in the Philippines. Endemic. 
HALOREHAGACE2E. 
HALORRHAGIS Forst. 
Halorrhagis halconensis Merrill n. sp. 
Planta robusta suffruticosa erecta ad 60 cm. alta; foliis oppositis 
vel ad ramos juniores verticillatis, elliptico-ovatis, ad 3 cm. longis, 
1 ad 1.5 cm. latis ; inflorescentiae ad apices caulis dense racemoso-pani- 
