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about 4.5 cm long, prominently appressed-pilose, the hairs rather 
pale. 
Leyte, Dagami, C. A, Wenzel, 88, March 31, 1913, in forested foothills, 
altitude about 60 mm. 
A species in the same group with Cyrtandra chiritioides Kranzl., C. glau- 
cescens Kranzl., C. humilis Elm., and C. attenuata Elm., differing from 
all in its much broader leaves and in its larger flowers. 
RUBIACEAE, 
HYDNOPHYTUM Jack 
HYDNOPHYTUM LEYTENSE sp. nov. 
Frutex epiphyticus, glaber, circiter 0.8 m altus; ramis in sic- 
citate rubro-brunneis, rugosis, 2 ad 5 mm diametro; foliis nitidis, 
coriaceis, oblongis ad anguste oblongo-ellipticis, obtusis, basi 
acutis, 4 ad 10 cm longis, in siccitate pallide olivaceis vel pallida 
viridibus, vix brunneis, nervis utrinque circiter 8, obscuris ; flori- 
bus axillaribus, fasciculatis, 4 mm longis ; pyrenis solitariis, oblon- 
go-ellipsoideis, acutis, 3.5 mm longis. 
An epiphytic shrub about 80 cm high, quite glabrous. 
Branches dark reddish-brown, much wrinkled when dry, 2 to 
5 mm in diameter, somewhat shining, the internodes 2 to 5 
cm long, those of the branchlets 1 to 2 cm in length. Leaves 
coriaceous, oblong to narrowly oblong-elliptic, 4 to 10 cm long, 
1 to 3 cm wide, obtuse, base acute, margins distinctly recurved, 
when dry of about the same color and shining on both sur- 
faces, pale-greenish or pale-olivaceOus, scarcely brownish, the 
midrib prominent; lateral nerves about 9 on each side of the 
midrib, slender, ascending, indistinct, the reticulations obsolete; 
petioles stout, 1 to 2 mm long. Flowers axillary, fascicled, white, 
sessile, 2 or 3 to 10 or more in a fascicle, but one or two opening 
at one time, 4 mm long. Calyx 2 to 2.3 mm long, somewhat 
funnel-shaped or cup-shaped, the limb much produced, truncate. 
Corolla 3 mm long, cleft one-half to the base into 4, oblong, obtuse, 
1.5 mm long lobes which are thickened at the apex inside, the 
throat villous. Anthers subsessile, 0.8 mm long. Fruit red, 
fleshy, narrowly ovoid, 5 mm long, the calyx-limb deciduous, each 
normally with but a single pyrene which is oblong-ellipsoid, 
acute, 3.5 mm long. 
Leyte, Ormoc-Binahaan, C. A. Wenzel ^5, April 28, 1913, usually 
growing on large vines in forested foothills, altitude about 200 meters. 
A species manifestly allied to Hydnophytum formicarium Jack, but dif- 
fering in its somewhat more numerously nerved, relatively narrower leaves 
which do not turn brown in drying, and in its much smaUer flowers; the 
flowers of Hydnophytum formicarium are described as one-fourth of an inch 
in length. 
