DECEMBER 27, 1908] GESNERACEX FROM THE CvERNOS Mrs. 557 
broad, thin, nervose, the upper one bilobed and much shorter, 
the others united to above the end of the upper one; stamens 
didymous; filaments 2 mm. long, thin and glabrous at the 
basal 0.5 mm. long portion; the upper portion thick, worm 
like, glandularly pubescent, inserted on the inside of the 
corolla tube a trifle below the middle, far included; anthers 
1.5 mm. long, dorsifixed; pistil thick, 8 mm. long, straight; 
ovary elongated, glabrous, arising from within the thick disk; 
style as long as the ovary, glandular pubescent, termina- 
ted bya knob like pubescent stigma; berry yellowish white, 
juicy, bitter, ovately elongated, 2 to 3 cm. long, bearing a 
prominent tip. 
Type specimen 10228, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuer- 
nos Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, June, 
1908. 
Discovered in humid woods at 4000 feet and in our locali- 
ty it is quite rare. Neither is it abundant elsewhere, since 
it has only come into collections from Canlaoan volcano and 
from lake Lanao of central Mindanao. The foliage reminds 
one of certain species of Maesa. 
Cyrtandra fragilis Elm. n. sp. 
A laxly branched shrub, 2 to 4 m. high; wood snap- 
py, covered with a yellowish gray bark; twigs easily break- 
ing, slender, the younger portion covered with dark brown 
hispidulous hairs. Leaves glabrous except the midnerve be- 
neath, fragile, subcoriaceous, variable in size, numerous, hori- 
zontally spreading, oppositely arranged along the branchlets, 
flat, deep lucid green above, much paler or in the dry state 
sulphurescent green, lanceolate to oblanceolate, occasionally 
subfaleate and ‘slightly inequilateral toward the base, entire, 
apex obtuse or acute with a blunt point, base long and cu- 
neate or obtuse, the larger blades 4 cm. Jong, 12 mm. wide; 
nerves 3 to 5 pairs, ascendingly curved, faint but equally 
visible from both sides, the midnerve very prominent beneath 
and dirty puberulent; petiole less than 5 mm. in length, dark 
brown hispidulous. Flowers chiefly axillary, odorless, subpendu- 
lous, pinkish white, comparatively large; peduncles solitary, 
filiform, 1 em. long, hispidulous, terminated by 2 short bracts; 
pedicels similar but usually with a reddish tinge, usually a trifle 
