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described as M. polillensis as to any other, but very different from both, as 
they are from one another, in the inflorescence, differing also by the more 
numerous leaf-veins, the pubescence, and in many other ways. 
Medinilla cephaloph'ora Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 3 (1908) Bot. 250. 
Represented by 10261; other distribution Laguna, Negros, Mindanao. 
Medinilla inaequifolia sp. nov. 
Suffrutex, saepe prostratus, M. involucratae Merr. affinis ; inflores- 
centiis saepissime bifloris insigniter braeteolatis, calyce dense pubes- 
cente 5-dentato: foliis oppositis, valde diversis, uno saepissime elliptico 
vel oblanceolato, apice acute acuminato, basi rotundato vel subcordato ; 
altero muito breviore, orbiculare vel ovato-orbiculare, basi cordato. 
Inflorescences terminal, lateral, or sometimes crowded on lateral 
branches; basal pair of bracts lanceolate, acute, about 4 mm long, 
peduncle about 3 mm long, bearing at its apex a pair of bracts similar 
to those at its base, each subtending a single one-flowered pedicel about 
2 mm long; each flower inclosed in a pair of ovate, rose-carmine brac- 
teoles about 2 cm long, 9-plinerved, their under surface and margins, 
the peduncles, pedicels, and bracts with hairs 1 to 4 mm long: fruiting 
calyx 7 mm long, extending about 1 mm beyond the ovary, densely 
beset with hairs often as much as 5 mm long and overtopping it, an- 
nulate within, the rim of the calyx forming 5 cuspidate teeth and 
minutely serrate between them; ovary 5-celled; ovules very numerous. 
An undershrub, at least sometimes prostrate, the gray branches 
densely fulvous-pubescent: leaves opposite, those of a pair strikingly 
dissimilar, the one with densely pubescent petioles 7 to 10 mm long, the 
submembranaeeous lamina variable in outline but more frequently ellip- 
tic or oblanceolate, 10 to 18 cm long, 3 to 6 cm wide, the base rounded, 
rarely very shortly acuminate, or subcordate, the apex acutely short- 
acuminate, 9- to 11-plinerved, both surfaces bearing upon the veins and 
between' them numerous hairs usually about 3 mm long, the opposing 
leaves sessile, orbicular or ovate-orbicrdar, 2 to 2.5 cm long, the base 
cordate with a very narrow sinus, the apex abruptly and - very shortly 
acuminate, 7- to 9-plinerved. 
Polillo, Bur. Sci. 10264 McGregor (type), Bur. Sci. 9095 Robinson, not 
uncommon. Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Mount Binuang, at 875 m elevation, 
Bur. Sci. 9382 Robinson. Very similar to M. involucrata Merr. in the general 
appearance of the bracteoles and the unequal leaves, but at once distinguishable 
by the pubescence and the more numerous leaf-nerves. 
Medinilla involucrata Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 2 (1907) Bot. 287. 
Represented by 694 7, 10262; other distribution Tayabas, Camarines, Albay, 
Sorsogon, Negros, Mindoro, Mindanao. 
