JANUARY 25, 1908] A Century or New PLANTS 346 
glabrous above, pulverulent beneath except the rusty brown 
pubescent nerves and reticulations, apex obtuse or rounded; 
base also rounded or subauriculate, the lower one half with 
subentire margins, otherwise crenately denticulate; veins 5 
to 7 on each side, obscure and soon anastomosing into coarse 
irregular reticulations which are quite as prominent beneath; 
petiole stout, densely pubescent with similarly colored hairs, 
5 mm. long. Inflorescence clustered in the axils of fallen 
leaves; peduncles ascending, about. equalling the petioles; 
flowers subtended hy dry brown pubescent 15° mm. long 
bracts, usually 3 to 5-clustered; calyx 15 mm. long, thin, 
pubescent on the exterior, 4-toothed, the teeth abruptly rol- 
led into an acuminate point, the lower somewhat shorter and 
narrower; corolla 5 cm. long, pure white except the brown 
streaked lower surface, subdeflexed, the basal portion constricted, 
otherwise saccate, soft woolly pubescent, 1 cm. thick above 
the middle, its segments broadly rounded and rotately spread- 
ing; style included, at the thickened base glabrous, otherwise 
hairy, the upper portion flattened; stigma comparatively very 
large, expended, into flattened divaricate lobes 1.5 mm. long 
and 1 mm. wide; stamens not seen; fruits terete, apparently 
straight and suberect, yellowish pulverulent, 1.5. cm. long, 
about one half as thick, pointed at the apex, rounded at the 
base; seeds numerous, brown, 0.5 mm. long, oblong, fusiform. 
Type specimen 8855, A. D. E. Elmer, Baguio, Province of 
Benguet, Luzon, March, 1907. Quite common on damp ground 
next to streamlets of heavily wooded ravines near the barrio 
of Sablan. 
Cyrtandra grossedentata n. sp.— Lax shrubs, less than 
1 m. high; the white wood breaking with a snap; branches 
erooked, smooth, grayish white; the young leaf bearing branch- 
lets covered with a dark brown pubescence. Leaves mem- 
branous, flat or occasionally with recurved tips, spreading, 
green and glabrous on the upper surface, especially dark 
green along the veins, alternate, yellowish white beneath 
and pubescent but especially dense along the 5 to 7 pairs 
of ascending nerves and the prominent midrib, averaging 6 em- 
long and 2 em. wide above the middle, ,broadly oblance- 
olate or oblong to obovate in the smaller ones, grossly den- 
