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Medinilla annulata sp. nov. 
Erecta, scandens : inflorescentiis solitariis vel fasciculatis, in caulibus 
vetustioribus suffultis, pednncnlis longis, gracilibus, floribns apice um- 
bellato-cymosis, pentameris, calyce annnlato: ramulis setosis, foliis'petio- 
latis, laminis ellipticis vel anguste obovatis, basi Ieviter cordatis, apice 
abrupte brevissimeqne acuminatis, nervis utrinque 4. 
Inflorescences solitary or • fascicled on the lower portions of the stem 
below the leaves, 13 to 20 cm long, the peduncle only 1.5 mm in diam- 
eter, minutely setose at the apex, densely setose at and sometimes 
near the base, - elsewhere with scattered setae or glabrous, the inflores- 
cence otherwise glabrous, the flowers usually numerous, confined to its 
apex and forming an umbellate cyme, the pedicels 5 to 12 mm long: 
calyx united with the ovary for rather more than 2 mm, the free portion 
somewhat shorter, abruptly widened, its apex with 5 minute teeth, its 
inner surface bearing a conspicuous annulus nearly opposite the free 
apex of the ovary, the outer surface of the calyx showing when fresh 
5 or. less definitely 10 pink ribs, these inconspicuous in dried material; 
petals 5, greenish-white, obovate or oblaneeolate, apiculate, 6 mm long; 
’stamens 10, subequal, their filaments j^ellow, nearly 4 mm long, the 
blue anthers lanceolate, reflexed before anthesis, slightly incurved in 
flower, 3.5 mm long, two anterior appendages at the base of the anther- 
cells ovate, 0.4 mm long,, obtuse, the posterior spur- 0.2 mm long, being 
the continuation of a narrow keel extending 1 mm up the dorsal surface 
of the connective; style narrowly clavate, 4 mm long; ovary globose, 5- 
celled, its' apex in young flowers with 5 pairs of conspicuous ridges, but 
these inconspicuous in later stages, ovules very numerous, on placentae 
attached near the apex of the -central angle of the cells : fruit purplish- 
red, succulent, seen - up to 4.5 mm in diameter. 
Woody and erect, but climbing along the trunks of trees, the stems 
nearly cylindric, the older branches covered with scaly brownish bark, 
the younger increasingly setose, -densely so at the nodes : leaves opposite, 
, the petioles 18- to 35 mm long> they and the bases of the midvein of 
the under surface somewhat setose, the veinlets of the under surface 
sparingly setose, the leaves otherwise glabrous, lamina submembrana- 
ceous, elliptic to narrowly obovate, 20 to 25 cm long, about 9 cm wide, 
the base shallowly cordate, the apex rounded and abruptly forming an 
acumen only 2 to 3 mm long; lateral veins on each side of the midrib 
4, arched-ascending, the uppermost continuing into the acumen, the 
third pair nearly as far, all united with the midvein and succeeding 
veins by conspicuous transverse veinlets. 
Polillo, San Francisco, Bur. Sci. 9002 Robinson (type), on low hills beside 
a stream at about 30 m elevation, Bur. Sci. 10265 McGregor. A singularly 
distinct species, perhaps as near to M. tephalophora Merr. and that herein 
