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angustatis, acuminatis, margine irregulariter undulato-dentatis 
vel subintegris, nervis utrinque 5 vel 6, subtus valde prominenti- 
bus; inflorescentiis axillaribus, pedunculatis, bracteatis, 3-floris, 
floribus circiter 3 cm longis, calycis lobis longe caudato-acu- 
minatis. 
A shrub about 2 m high, closely allied to Cyrtandra curranii 
Kranzl., from which it differes in its much smaller leaves. 
Branches gray, subterete, glabrous, the younger ones, the lower 
surface of the leaves, and the inflorescence prominently brown- 
or ferruginous-tomentose. Leaves in equal pairs or one of each 
pair somewhat smaller than the other, oblong-lanceolate, firmly 
chartaceous, 5 to 8 cm long, 1.3 to 3 cm wide, subequally nar- 
rowed to the acute base and to the acuminate apex, margins 
obscurely undulate-toothed or subentire, the upper surface dark- 
colored when dry, glabrous, the lower surface with dark-brown 
nerves and primary reticulations; petioles 5 to 10 mm long. 
Inflorescence axillary, ferruginous-tomentose, 3-flowered, but one 
flower developing at a time or the two lateral ones imperfect, the 
peduncles about 1.5 cm long, dark-brown, pubescent, the bracts 
ovate, tomentose, about 12 mm long, prominently acuminate. 
Flowers white, about 3 cm long. Calyx tomentose, 2 to 2.3 cm 
long, inflated, the lobes lanceolate, long and slenderly caudate- 
acuminate, tomentose, 1.5 to 1.7 cm long. Corolla 3 to 3.2 cm 
long, the lower 9 mm cylindric, 3 mm in diameter, then rather 
abruptly inflated, the larger lobes suborbicular, about 1 cm in 
diameter. Disk cylindric, glabrous, truncate, 2 mm high. Fila- 
ments 9 mm long, the connective glandular; anthers 2 mm long. 
Ovary densely tomentose; style prominently capitate-glandular ; 
stigma 2-cleft. Young fruit narrowly ovoid, 1 cm long, hirsute. 
LEYTE, Buenavista, near Jaro, C. A. Wenzel 665, May 15, 1914, in forests, 
altitude about 500 meters. 
Closely allied to Cyrtandra curranii Kranzl. which it much resembles, 
differing in its much smaller leaves and smaller flowers. 
RUBIACEAE 
NAUCLEA Linnaeus 
NAUCLEA WENZELII sp. nov. 
Species valde peculiaris, foliis subtus ad nervos ramulis junio- 
ribus pedunculisque pubescentibus, floribus 6-meris, calycis lobis 
aciculatis, 2 mm longis, persistentibus; frutex 5 m altus, myr- 
mecophilus; foliis coriaceis, late ellipticis ad obovatis, usque ad 
17 cm longis, abrupte subcaudato acuminatis, nervis utrinque 
circiter 8, cum reticulis valde prominentibus; capitulis solitariis, 
globosis, circiter 3 cm diametro. 
