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 GESNERIACE^E. 



CYRTANDRA Forst. 

 Cyrtandra villosissima Merrill sp. n<>v. 



A shrub very densely ferruginous villous throughout with long soft 

 hairs, the pubescence felted on the younger branches, inflorescence, 

 petioles and under surface of the leaves. Branches brown, terete, the 



older oik's less densely villous than the ultimate branches. Leases thick', 

 oblong-ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 11 to 20 cm. long, 3.5 to 8 cm. wide, 

 narrowed above to the rather slender acuminate apex, and below to the 

 acute or acuminate strongly inequilateral base, densely softly ferruginous 

 villous throughout, paler beneath, the upper surface less densely pubes- 

 cent than the lower, the margins dentate above, densely ciliate villous; 

 nerves 12 to 1 1 on each side of the midrib: petioles densely felted villous, 

 4 cm. long or less. Cymes axillary, several flowered, about 3 cm. long, 

 the bracts linear, 1 cm. long or less, densely felted villous like the rest 

 of the inflorescence. Calyx lobes linear, 1.5 cm. long. 1 mm. wide, per- 

 sistent, densely villous. Corolla about IS nun. long, somewhat hirsute 

 outside, tubular, subequally 5-lobed, the lobes orbicular-ovate, about 1 

 mm. long, pilose outside. Stamens 2, inserted at about the middle of the 

 tube, included; filaments about 2 mm. long: anthers 2.5 mm. Ovary 

 oblong, densely pilose; style pilose, included, 2-cleft; stigmas broadly 

 elliptical-ovate. Disk cup-shaped, glabrous. 1 mm. long. Capsule ob- 

 long, about 1 cm. long. 4.5 mm. thick, hirsute. Seeds indefinite, oblong, 

 about 0.3 mm. long, glabrous, brown. 



Mindanao. Lake Lamm. Camp Keithley (51 Mrs. Clemens) January, 1906. 

 A very characteristic species, recognizable by its very dense, felted, ferruginous 

 soft, villous pubescence, perhaps most closely related to Cyrtandra mollis DeVriese. 



MONOPHYLLEA R. Br. 



Monophyllea lowei ('. B. Clarke in DC. Monog. Phan. 5 (1883) 183. 



Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, San Ramon (1565 Copeland) December 11. 

 1904. In rocky gorges in forests at about 160 ni. 



No species of this Malayan genus has previously been reported from the 

 Philippines, the above specimens differing from Monophyllea lotoei in its some 

 what smaller leaves, but I am unable to separate it by other characters, the 

 original description of Clarke's species being rather short. Borneo. 



PA R ABO E A Ridl. 



Paraboea luzoniensis .Merrill sp. now 



Stems stout, 5 to 7 cm. long, somewhat tloccose, gray. Leaves many, 

 crowded, long petiolod. elliptical-ovate to elliptical-obovate, membranous. 

 * to 11 cm. long, 1 to 7 cm. wide, subentire, the apex broad, rounded. 

 rarely somewhat acute, the base acute or subtruncate, often oblique, the 

 upper surface glabrous or nearly so. the lower surface paler, more or less 

 densely floccose pubescent; nerves (i to S on each side of the midrib. 



