558 Learcets OF PuiLIPPINE BOTANY (Vor. ll, Arr. 27 
shorter and becoming glabrous; calyx finely punctate, red- 
dish, eampanulate, glabrous, less than 5 mm. long, the 5 
triangularly acute segments 2 mm. long and more or less 
callous tipped; corolla about 15 mm. long, 1 em. wide across 
the throat, a trifle constrieted just below the middle, inflated 
above this, glabrous; the 5 lobes broadly oblong, 3.5 mm. 
long, the lower one half of the throat longer; stamens di- 
dymous, 2 fertile, the 2 sterile ones remaining as 2 mm. 
long appendages, inserted a trifle below the middle of the 
corolla; filaments 5 mm. long, glabrous or only slightly 
glandularly hairy, strongly curved toward the place of at- 
tachment; anthers ovoid, 1 mm. long, scarcely reaching the 
throat; pistil 8 mm. long, strict, the oblong glabrous ovary 
subtended at the base by a cartilaginous rim, the neck grad- 
ually tapering and more or less glandular toward the top; 
stigma flat, 1 mm. in diameter; berry pendulous, juicy, 
easily falling out from the persistent calyx, dark wine or 
nearly black when ripe. 
Type specimen 9917, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete Cuer- 
nos Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, April, 
1908. Also number 9502. 
This same species has previously been collected on the 
Malindang mountains, province of Misamis, Mindanao, by 
Maj. E. A. Mearns and W. I. Hutchinson, May, 1906, (Forestry 
Bureau record 4753). Not rare in humid moss covered woods 
from 3500 to 5000 feet, and its slender branchlets readily 
break with a snap. 
Allied to but not identical with C. parvifolia Merr. 
Cyrtandra attenuata Elm. n. sp. 
Stems decumbent, greenish, easily breakiüg, unbranched, 
sparingly 2 to3 from the same root, rigid and suffrutescent toward 
the base; roots wiry, also rigid. Leaves ascending, opposite, 
spreading, chiefly confined toward the top of the stems, subcoria- 
ceous, dark green and glabrous or only sparingly strigose on the 
upper surface, much paler beneath and glabrous except the veins, 
oblanceolate, much varying in size, acute at the apex, slen- 
derly attenuate toward the base, 3 dm. long by 2 cm. wide 
above the middle but frequently much larger or smaller, 
margins toward the base subentire, otherwise serrately den- 
