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Medinilla nodiflora sp. nov. 
Suffrutex, scandens: cymis in eaulibns sub foliis fasciculatis, brevi- 
bus; floribus pentameris: foliis oppositis, laminis chartaceis, ellipticis 
vel elliptico-lanceolatis, basi rotnndatis vel cordatulis, apice breviter 
acuminatis, 7-plinerviis vel infhnis obscnris. 
Cymes fascicled on tubercles on the stem below the leaves, 3 to 4 
cm long, the flowers in whorls of 3 to 6 at the ends of their branches, 
on pedicels 5 to 8 mm long; fruiting calyx waxy- white, urceolate, 10 
mm long, 8 mm in diameter, free from the ovary for about 2 mm, the 
rim fleshy at the base, annulate within, the nearly truncate apex ob- 
scurely showing 5 minute teeth; ovary 5-celled; seeds very numerous, 
less than 1 mm long, the testa horny. 
Woody, climbing on trees and often rooting, the stems cylindrical, 
about 1 cm in diameter, glabrous, with gray or dark-gray bark : leaves 
opposite, the petioles 2.5 to 5 cm long, the lamina chartaeeous, elliptic 
or elliptic-lanceolate, 13 to 20 cm long, 4.5 to 9 cm wide, the base 
rounded or very shallowly cordate, the apical acumen acute or subacute, 
8 to 15 mm long, 7-plinerved, the lowest pair basal or subbasal, extend- 
ing about two-thirds the length of the leaf, sometimes obscure, the next 
pair arising 5 mm or less from the base or often adnate to the midvein 
and basal or subbasal, extending into the acumen, the apical pair about 
3.5 cm above the base, reuniting with the midrib near the base of the 
acumen, upper surface green, glabrous, under surface tending to become 
purplish-brown in drying, its veins, the petioles and pedicels minutely 
brown-furfuraceous, transverse veinlets much more distinct on upper 
surface. 
Polillo, Bur. Sci. 10263 McGregor. Luzon, Province of Laguna, San Antonio, 
Papatahan, Bur. Sci. 12005 Ramos (type). Allied to M. curranii Merr., strongly 
resembling it in its fruit, but having merely opposite leaves, 7-plinerved. 
Medinilla polillensis sp. nov. 
Scandens : floribus saepissime in triadibus rarius in triadibus biver- 
ticillatis eaulinis dispositis, tetrameris : foliis chartaceis, laneeolatis, gla- 
bris, basi obscure et brevissime auriculatis, apice acuminatis, 5-plinerviis. 
Inflorescences cauline, the flowers more often 3, disposed umbel lately, 
or in two whorls each of 3, the peduncle 1.5 to 2.5 cm long, the pedicels 
articulated, below the articulation 2.5 to 5 mm long, from articulation 
to the base of the ovary 1 to 1.4 cm long: fruiting calyx urceolate, 8 
mm long, annulate within, the rim about 1.5 mm long, forming 4 rounded 
lobes ;- ovary thin-walled, 4-celled, ovules very numerous. 
Plant entirely glabrous, scandent on tree-trunks, and rooting at the 
nodes, the stems and branches strongly quadrangular and usually with 
