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chiefly horizontal, subcoriaceous, drying unequally brown, the 

 larger blades obovately elliptic, 12 cm. long, 6.5 cm. wide 

 above the middle, entire toward the base, otherwise serrately 

 dentate, the apex broadly rounded, base slightly inequilateral 

 and broadly obtuse, the small blades elliptic to rotund, 

 varying from 1.5 to 3 cm. long, soft olivaceus tomentose 

 beneath, glabrous above and with cystoliths; midrib rather 

 stout, sparsely hairy along the upper side; the nerves 4 to 

 6 lateral pairs, oblique, their tips reticulately united, the in- 

 tervening reticulations rather coarse, glabrous on the upper 

 side; petiole very stout, densely covered with olivaceous woolly 

 hairs, those of the small leaves one third as long. Fruits 

 solitary or few clustered, axillary, recurved; pedicels slender 

 and olivaceus pubescent, 2 to 5 cm. long at the base, sub- 

 tended by minute similarly pubescent bracts; calyx 1 cm. 

 long, deeply cup shaped, olivaceus ciliate on the exterior, 

 submembranous and persistent, ultimately splitting open at 

 one or more places clear to the base, bearing 5 triangular seg- 

 ments which are very slenderly acuminate; fruit sausage shaped, 

 glabrous, 1 to 3 cm. long including the pulverulent neck, 

 4 mm. thick. 



Type specimen number 13207, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

 Princesa (Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, May, 1911. 



In red compact soil on steep forested slopes near a stream 

 depression at 2500 feet altitude. 



This remarkable Cyrtandra has a striking likeness to 

 certain species of Elatostem/ma. 



Cyrtandra inaequifolia Elm. n. sp. 



Very lax and .soft frutescent plants; stem solitary or 

 few from the same root, hardly ascending toward the ends, 

 rebranched, 1.25 cm. thick more or less; the crooked branch- 

 lets horizontally spreading or descending, obscurely angular, 

 the young portion densely light fulvus pubescent, the bark 

 glabrous and stramineus. Foliage similarly disposed, velvety 

 pleasing on the upper very finely pubescent surface, beneath 

 much lighter green or whitish and scarcely pubescent, un- 

 equally brown in the dry state, soft membranous, entire or 

 minutely serrate toward the acute to acuminte apex, base 



