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LEAFLETS or PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. I. Art. 16 
tate especially the upper one half, the teeth terminating 
by small hairy tufts, base attenuate, apex abruptly acute; 
petiole 8 mm. long, densely brown pubescent. Infrutescence 
from the lower leaf axils or more frequently from the axils 
of the branchlets, pendulous, usually solitary but occasion- 
ally in small clusters; pedicel 1 cm. long, slender, densely 
ferruginous pubescent; immature fruit 3 to 4 mm. long, 
faleate, terete, 5 mm. thick, subtended at the base by a per- 
sistent brown ciliate calyx, only slightly contracted toward 
the base, apex extended into a slender 1 cm. long beak; 
flowers not seen. ^ 
Type specimen 8864, A. D. E. Elmer, Baguio, Province 
of Benguet, Luzon, March, 1907. It inhabits the banks of 
damp, much shaded rivulets near Sablan. From C. incisa 
Clarke, its ally, it differs in its much smaller leaves which 
are not lanceolate and which have much shorter petioles; 
it also differs from C. philippinensis Clarke in essentially the 
same characters. 
Cyrtandra tayabensis n. sp Brandon numerously 
branched shrub; the branchlets slender, subdetlexed, yellowish 
brown, quite succulent. Leaves also succulent, heavy, deep 
green above, much paler beneath, opposite, only toward the 
ends of the sparsely strigose twigs, glabrous except the fer- 
ruginous nerves beneath, broadly oblanceolate but occasionally 
the smaller ones lanceolate, margins entire or crenately 
apiculate, the larger blades 18 cm. long, 6 cm. wide 
above the middle, acute at apex, the base gradually tapering 
or slenderly cuneate; petioles 3 to 7 em. long, ferruginously 
pubescent when young; nerves strongly ascending, 9 to 12 on 
each side of the prominent midrib, obscurely united beneath 
the margin, reticulations coarse and faint. Inflorescence 
chiefly clustered in the axils of the fallen leaves, 1 to 3 
creamy white flowers from each axil; pedicels less than 1 
em. long, rusty brown pilose, subtended at the base by a 
dense whorl of subpersistent, nearly glabrous, brown colored, 
very unequal involucral bracts which are more or less united 
at the base and about 1 em. in length; calyx saccate, 12 
mm. long, brown when dry, subglabrous, irregularly split 
from the apex into 5 segments; corolla tube 2 cm. long, 
