DuckMBER 27, 1908] G ESNERACEÆ FROM THE CUERNOS Mrs. 
tate; petiole I em. long, covered with olivaceous hairs, occasionally 
the decurrent leaf margins extend clear to the base; nerves 5 to 7 
oreven 9 pairs, ascendingly curved, prominent and olivaceous 
pubescent beneath, the tips coarsely anastomosing;  reticula- 
tions coarse, quite evident and also pubescent. Inflorescence 
axillary, ascending, solitary or in the robust forms 2 to 3- 
clustered upon short peduncles; the 2 or3 involucral bracts 
olivaceous pubescent, about 1 em. long, thin, oblongish with 
acuminate tips; pedicels also very short, hairy; calyx mem- 
branous, hairy, nearly 1.5 em. long, trumpet shaped, ob- 
lique at the throat and usually slit down along the upper 
side; corolla white, saccate from the middle, delicate in tex- 
ture, 3 to 5 cm. in length, 2.5 cm. wide at the throat, 
tubular below the middle, strigose except at the base, arising 
from a turbinate callous rim; the lobes broad, rotately 
spreading; fertile stamens 2, much included, inserted on 
the interior of the corolla a trifle below the middle; fila- 
ments glabrous, much flattened, 1 cm. long, merely curved; 
anthers 2 mm. long, dorsifixed, triangularly oblong; ovary 
glabrous, cylindric, 5 mm. long, 1.5 mm. thick; style nearly 
2 em. long, subeompressed, densely hairy; stigma 1 mm. high, 
2.5 mm. wide, short and finely hairy; immature fruit cylin- 
dric, glabrous, 1 em. long, 2 mm. thick. 
Type specimen 9623, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuer- 
nos Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, March, 
1908, 
On seepuge or dripping cliffs along the Bonyao river at 
2500 feet. Quite rare. 
In the field I took it to be C. humilis Elm. of middle 
northern Luzon, but upon closer examination I find it to 
be a much finer plant and sufficiently distinct in leaf characters. 
‘*Dulagmog.’’ 
Cyrtandra pallida Elm. n. sp. 
Lax undershrub, 1.5 to 3 m. high; wood sappy, break- 
ing with a snap; bark smooth, yellowish, ultimately finely 
checked longitudinally; twigs slender, half drooping, the 
younger tips densely fuliginous hairy. Leaves oppositely 
scattered along the branchlets, very unequal in size, lanceolate 
or more commonly oblanceolate, soft membranous, flat, much 
