D«ckMBEK 27, 1908} GESNERACEEX FROM TH Corrnos Mrs. 555 
Cyrtandra lobbi Clarke in DC. Monog. Phan. 5; 282, 
1883. 
Lax, 2 m. high shrub; bark greenish, ultimately becom- 
ing thinly checked; wood soft, easily breaking. Leaves flat, 
coriaceous, dull green above, the petivles and nerves beneath 
sprinkled with brownish hairs. Bracts and calyx also green 
and provided with similarly colored hairs; corolla delicate, 
subpendulous, pure white, 3 cm. long, 2 cm. across at the 
throat, the saccate tube constricted below the middle. 
Specimens 9659 and 104483, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, 
Cuernos Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, March 
and June respectively, 1908. 
Scattered as an undershrub throughout the humid woods 
at 2750 feet. The flowers are rather showy, but not numer- 
ous. The leaves are hard to dry and usually warp consid- 
erably while curing. ‘*‘Hand-dulumg-og’’. 
Cyrtandra tayabensis Elm. Leaf. Philip. Bot. 1; 347, 
1908. 
Stems less sparingly branched than in the type, the 
branchlets subdeflexed; wood soft, green, watery and easily 
breaking, covered with yellowish bark. Leaves spreading, co- 
riaceous, flat, dark green above, much lighter beneath, the 
petiole and midrib frequently reddish. Pedicels also reddish, 
calyx green; corolla strongly recurved from below the 
middle, 3 cm. long, of a dull brick red throughout, 
constricted below the middle. 
Specimen 9585, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuernos 
Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, March, 1908. 
Abundant in moist woods at 4250 feet. Our plant 
forms loose tangled bushes upon small trees or large shrubs 3 to 5 
metersfrom the ground. In some characters, notably the color 
of the flowers, it does not exactly match typical specimens from 
Tayabas province, Luzon. ‘‘Ling-nato-boto.’’ 
Cyrtandra villosissima Merr. in Paip Journ: Sci. x 
Suppl. 3; 225, 1906. : 
A straggling shrub; old stems 3 cm. thick, ibdeMaly ; 
rigid, with a large pith, sparingly and crookedly branched; 
old bark thin, yellowish gray, green beneath the epidermis, 
