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ROBINSON. 
brown pubescence about 4 mm long, above with, much shorter and scattered 
pubescence; flowers somewhat crowded, short-bracted, the pedicels about 
4.5 mm long: flowers wanting: fruit baccate, lilac to purple and blue, 
the calyx urceolate, in all 1 cm long, glabrous or slightly scurfy on the 
free portion, the ovarian part subglobose about 8 mm wide, contracted at 
the apex to 6 mm, the rim free for about 2.5 mm, with 4 minute teeth; 
ovary 4-celled, attached to the calyx along 4 lines, the ovules very numer- 
ous, minute. 
Climbing and rooting at many of the nodes, the stems terete, with 
gray bark, glabrescent ; the ultimate branches hirsute : leaves opposite, 
those of a pair very different, the one kind on stout hirsute petioles 16 to 
24 mm long, the subchartaceous lamina somewhat falcate, elliptic or 
elliptic-obovate, 18 to 23 cm long, 7 to 11 cm wide, the other kind ovate, 
sessile and clasping, about 3 cm long, 2 cm wide, both kinds obtuse at the 
base and shortly acuminate at the apex, the smaller 11- or 13-nerved, 
the nerves separate to the base, the larger with equally numerous veins but 
the uppermost pair leaving the costa about 7 to 8.5 cm from the base, 
the next pair 4.5 to 5 cm, the next 1.5 to 2 cm, the next about 5 mm, the 
remaining one or two pairs fainter, subbasal, all united with the midrib 
or the succeeding by fairly numerous nervules ; upper surface plumbeous, 
glabrous, under surface greenish, the nerves and veins yellow-hirsute, 
especially toward the base of the costa. 
Luzon, Province of Laguna, Mount Banajao, along a small stream at the 
base of the mountain, Bur. Sci. 9764 Robinson. While reduced leaves are known 
in other species, especially in M. inaequifolia C. B. Rob. and to a less extent in 
M. involucrata Merr., they are here still more striking, resembling the spathes 
of aroids; the present species differs from both these others in the nature of its 
inflorescence. In the latter respect, it probably approaches M. cephalophora Merr. 
more closely than any other, but the peduncle is different, and the leaves have 
quite different venation. 
MELASTOMA (Burm.) Linn. 
Melastoma warrineri sp. nov. 
Frutex: inflorescentiis unifloris ad trifloris; floribus conspicue bibrac- 
teatis, bracteis calyceque sericeo-paleaceis ; calycis tubo quam lobi longiorcs 
breviore, lobis intermediis inconspicuis : f oliis chartaceis, ellipticis vel 
fere ovalibus, basi acutis, apice acute acuminatis. 
Inflorescence a terminal, sessile, 1- to 3-flowered cyme, the pedicels 
3 to 5 mm long, bearing at their bases two rigid appressed broadly elliptic- 
lanceolate bracts, deciduous after anthesis, 18 to 30 mm long, 7 to 11 
mm wide, acuminately narrowed to a truncate base, acutely acuminate 
at the apex, their outer surface and the pedicels densely covered with 
appressed linear paleae about 1 mm long, coarsest in the middle of the 
bracts, their margins ciliate-serrate, the apex ciliate-acuminate, the 
margins of the bracts pilose-ciliate, their inner surfaces appressed-pilose : 
