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the pedicels hirsute, about 4 mm long. Bracts lanceolate, acu- 
minate, membranaceous, 6 to 7 mm long. Flowers about 2.5 
emlong. Calyx 1.5 em long, rather conspicuously ciliate-hirsute, 
the spreading hairs 1.5 to 2.5 mm long, the tube 7 to 8 mm long, 
the lobes narrowly lanceolate, slenderly caudate-acuminate, 
ciliate-hirsute, equaling the tube in length. Corolla tube about 
1.8 cm long, narrow in the lower portion, gradually widened 
upward, somewhat pilose. Filaments glabrous, 3 to 4 mm long; 
anthers connate, 1.5 mm long. Disk 0 or very obscure. Ovary 
glabrous, lanceolate, the style appressed-hirsute, 6 to 7 mm long. 
MINDANAO, Zamboanga District, Malangas, Bur. Sci. 36833 
(type), 37248 Ramos & Edafio, November, 1919. Along streams 
in forests at low altitudes. 
A species well characterized by its small size, the prostrate 
slender stems copiously rooting, the leafy branches short, erect, 
as well as by its rather conspicuous, brown, ciliate indumentum 
and its dissimilar leaves, those of the lower pairs very different 
in size, those of the uppermost pairs being equal or subequal. 
CYRTANDRA SUBGLABRA sp. nov. 
Frutex erectus, usque ad 1 m altus, simplex, floribus exceptis 
glaber, caulis 5 mm diametro; foliis oppositis, in paribus sub- 
aequalibus, membranaceis, oblongis ad oblongo-ovatis, longe 
petiolatis, 14 ad 28 cm longis, acuminatis, basi cuneatis, margine 
integris; inflorescentiis axillaribus, 2- vel 3-floris, sessilibus vel 
brevissime pedunculatis, bracteis binis foliaceis persistentibus 
18 mm longis, ellipticis vel elliptico-ovatis instructis; floribus 
sessilibus, 4.5 ad 5 cm longis, calycis 12 mm longis, lobis oblongo- 
ovatis, 3 mm longis, glabris; corolla pilosa, tubo deorsum angus- 
tato; ovario glabro, stylis leviter pilosis. 
An erect, unbranched shrub up to 1 m high, entirely glabrous 
except the conspicuously pilose corollas, the stems pale when 
dry, about 5 mm in diameter. Leaves opposite, those of each 
pair equal or subequal in size and shape, membranaceous, subo- 
livaceous, oblong to oblong-ovate, 14 to 28 cm long, 5 to 8 cm wide, 
narrowed above to the rather conspicuously acuminate apex and 
below to the cuneate and often slightly inequilateral base, the 
margins entire; lateral nerves 7 to 9 on each side of the midrib, 
prominent on the lower surface, the reticulations rather lax, slen- 
der; petioles 3 to 8 cm long. Inflorescences axillary, solitary, . 
or 8-flowered, the peduncles 2 to 3 mm long, each peduncle sup- 
plied with two, persistent, subfoliaceous bracts, the bracts elliptic 
to elliptic-ovate, sessile, about 18 mm long, 21 mm wide, compli- 
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