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Leaves opposite, in somewhat unequal pairs, chartaceous or sub- 
coriaceous, lanceolate to oblong-oblanceolate, 4 to 10 cm long, 
1 to 3 cm wide, narrowed above to the rather long-acuminate 
apex and below to the acute or cuneate base, the margins dis- 
tantly and coarsely serrate to merely denticulate, the upper sur- 
face smooth, shining, brownish-olivaceous, the lower paler, often 
brownish, when young somewhat pubescent, becoming entirely 
glabrous; lateral nerves 5 or 6 on each side of the midrib, prom- 
inent on the lower surface, anastomosing, the reticulations lax, 
prominent; petioles of the larger leaves about 5 mm long, of 
the smaller ones somewhat shorter. Inflorescence very slender, 
axillary, solitary, few-flowered, shorter than the leaves, the 
flowers umbellately disposed at the apices of the simple peduncles. 
Peduncles very slender, 3.5 to 5.5 cm long, the bracts lanceolate, 
4 mm long, the pedicels 1 to 1.5 cm long. Flowers few, white, 
but one or two opening at the same time in each umbel. Calyx 
6 mm long, glabrous or nearly so, ovoid, the tube 3 mm long, 
the lobes ovate-lanceolate, 3-nerved, long-acuminate, more or less 
spreading, about 3 mm long. Corolla glabrous, narrowly cam- 
panulate, about 1.8 cm long, slightly widened upward, 2-lipped, 
the upper lip with 2, broadly ovate, rounded lobes about 3 mm 
long, the lower lip with 3 lobes, similar to those of the upper 
lip but slightly larger. Disk cupular, truncate, glabrous, 2 mm 
high. Stamens 2; filaments slightly pubescent; anthers 1 mm 
long, connate. Ovary narrowly ovoid, glabrous, tapering up- 
ward into the style which is glabrous below, and pubescent in 
the upper one-half or two-thirds. 
Luzon, Subprovince of Ifugao, Mount Polis, Bur. Sci. 19664 (type), 
19796 McGregor, February 8, 1918. 
A species similar to and manifestly closely allied to Cyrtandra plectran- 
thiflora Krinzl., from which it differs in its differently shaped, glabrous, 
smaller, fewer-nerved leaves and its larger flowers. 
CYRTANDRA OBLONGATA sp. nov. § Aureae. 
Frutex erectus, 2 ad 3 m altus, plus minusve pubescentibus; 
foliis oblongis, coriaceis, usque ad 25 cm longis, acuminatis, base 
longe angusteque decurrentibus, margine irregulariter serratis, 
supra glabris, subtus dense ferrugineo-pubescentibus; nervis 
utrinque 14 ad 16, adscendentibus, subtus valde prominentibus; 
inflorescentiis axillaribus, sessilibus, floribus confertis, circiter 
3 cm longis, bracteis involucrantibus albis, usque ad 3 em longis, 
anguste obovatis vel elliptico-ovatis. 
An erect, more or less branched shrub 2 to 3 m high, the 
branches stout, terete, or the younger ones more or less angled. 
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