DecemBer 27, 1908] GESNERACEJE FROM THE ÜUERNOS MTs. 561 
The absence of peduncles and the conspicuous involucral 
bracts distinguish it at once from Kraenzlins’ C. benguetiana 
and C. micrantha. ‘“*‘Halau-hauy’’. 
Cyrtandra antoniana Elm. n. sp. 
A suberect and reclining shrub, 8 m. high; branches 
rather long, sparsely branched, rigid, heavy, watery, erook- 
ed, the tips suberect; wood soft, yellowish, with a large 
pith; bark yellowish gray, that on the old stems becoming 
‘thinly checked, the young portion covered with diy subglis- 
tening dull olivaceous hairs or scales. Leaves only toward 
the ends, opposite, 1 to 2 em. apart, usually only 3 pairs to 
a twig, flat, radially spreading, quite variable in size, heavy, 
succulent but rather stiff, the upper dark green surface mi- 
nutely papillose under a lens and sparsely provided with 
yellowish gray soft crinkled hairs, somewhat yellowish green 
beneath, the larger blades in the dry state 15 cm. long, 7 
em. wide across the middle, broadly oblong, apex abruptly 
acute or obtuse, base attenuate or slenderly cuneate, frequently 
inequilateral especially toward the base, the basal one half 
entire, otherwise denticulate, beneath olivaceous in the dry 
state; nerves conspicuous beneath, densely covered with dry 
scale like olivaceously colored hairs, 7 to 9 pairs, all as- 
cendingly curved, the ends far extending along the margins — 
and ultimately becoming united, the coarse reticulations and 
secondary nerves quite in evidence; petiole varying from 1- 
to 3 em. long, stout, covered with soft olivaceous crinkled 
trichomes. Inflorescence pendulous from the leaf axils, 1 to 
3-flowered; peduncle green, pubescent, strict, about 2 cm. — 
long, occasionally subtended by a solitary foliaceous bract, 
pedicels only sparsely strigose, slender, 1 cm. long, purplish; 
the subtending pair of foliaceous bracts 1.5 em. long, broadly 
lanceolate, thin, sparsely strigose, pale green, occasionally the 
larger ones toothed at the apex; calyx more rigid than the | 
bracts, green, campanulate, 2 cm. long, 1.5 cm. wide toward — 
the top, subglabrous or strigose at the base; the 5 acute 
segments cut to the middle or slightly beyond the middle, 
finely punctate; ¢ corolla bud rounded and of a deeper. purple 
than in full anthesis; corolla purple, early falling, - 3 cm. 
ee ird ae from. the base to the J. 5 cm. Wide 
