556 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY (Vor. II, ART. 27 
smoothish and ultimately becoming longitudinally checked; 
wood sappy. Leaves very diverse in size, limp, yellowish green 
above, whitish beneath due to the color of the hairs. Flowers 
divaricate, spreading from the axillary involucre, blood red or 
somewhat paler below the middle, the corolla segments rotately 
spreading. 
Specimen 9511, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuernos 
Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, March, 1908. 
Quite common from 2000 to 4000 feet and strictly confines 
itself to steep well shaded shrubby jungles or upon seepage 
ledges near water courses, ''No-og-no-og" in Visayan. 
Cyrtandra maesaifolia Elm. n. sp. 
A low lax and widely branched shrub, 1 to 2 m. high; 
stems aud branches easily breaking, smooth, greenish; the 
twigs obscurely zigzag, the young parts olivaceous pubescent. 
Leaves coriaceous, horizontally spreading, dark green and 
glabrous on the upper surface, much paler beneath, the lower 
side more or less concave and in the young state strigose, 
alternatingly scattered, oblong to obovate, rounded and abrupt- 
ly tapering into the sharply acute apex, base obtuse or broadly 
cuneate, frequently inequilateral especially at the base, toward 
the apex serrately toothed, toward the base subentire or only 
apiculate, very unequal in size, the average blade 14 cm. long, 
7 em. wide across the middle or just above this; nerves ascend- 
ing, the ends gradually curved and submarginally united, 5 to 7 
pairs, prominent beneath and olivaceous pubescent; reticulations 
coarse and obscure; petiole 1.5 cm. long, caniculate, at first 
pubescent but soon wearing glabrous and scaly. Inflorescence 
axillary or leaf opposed; peduncles divaricate, 2 cm. long, 
strict, yellowish pubescent, occasionally 2 from the same axil; 
flowers 3 to 5 in a cluster; pedicels one half as long as the 
peduncles, similarly pubescent, subtended by a pair of yellowish 
green foliaceous bracts; bracts broadly lanceolate, 1 cm. long, 
finely pubescent on the outside; calyx 12 mm. long, yellowish 
white, hairy on the outside only; the 4 segments nearly 
divided to the base, lanceolate, rather abruptly terminating 
into a 5 mm. long point; corolla white except the purple 
sinuses, 2 cm. long, the basal glabrous portion tubular, the 
inflated portion soft strigose, comparatively straight; segments 
