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Cyrtandra rupicola Elm. n. sp. 



Ligneous low plant?; stems usually few from the same 

 root crown, 3 to 5 dm. long, terete, soft, crooked or ascend- 

 ingly curved, 3 mm, thick, occasionally branched, light gray, 

 glabrous except the greenish young tips which are fulvns 

 hairy. Leaves opposite, frequently the pairs are much unequa] 

 in size, llat, membranous, the old ones glabrous except the 

 veins beneath, curing unequally greenish gray, the nether 

 side much lighter green and appearing finely tes-ellate, apex 

 obtuse, base cuneate to obtuse, oblong or obovately so, entire 

 toward the base, otherwise obscurely crenate serrate, the blade 

 4 to 8 cm. long, averaging 2,5 cm. wide across the middle 

 or immediately above it; miilrib conspicuous beneath because 

 of its dense fulvus hairs, the 4 to 5 lateral pairs similar 

 in vestiture and curved from the base to tips, reticulations 

 none; petiole 5 mm. long for the smaller blades, 1.5 cm, 

 for the larger, densely fulvus pubescent. Flowers white except 

 the greenish calyx, axillary, descending; pedicel none or very 

 short, subtended by a pair of bracts; the green bracts 1 

 cm. long and 4 mm. wide, pellucid punctate and glabrous, 

 with a stout midvein, oblong; calyx cylindric, 1.25 cm. 

 long, glabrous or strigose on the exterior above the middle, 

 membranous, obscurely punctate, the faint lateral veins con- 

 nivent toward the apex with the midvein and forming a much 

 warped apical point, the 5 lobes oblong and with rounded 

 apices, only one fourth the length of the calyx, greenish; 

 corolla white, delicate, 4 to 5 cm. long, the basal one third 

 tubijlar, very slightly woolly on the outside except at the 

 base, much inflated otherwise; the lobes rotately spreading, 

 broadly rounded, relatively short, unequal; stamens 2, in- 

 cluded; filaments nearly 1 cm. long, glabrous, expanded 

 inserted upon the basal portion of the inflated corolla, straight; 

 anther 2 mm. long, sagittately lanceolate, apiculate at apex, 

 attached to the rigid nearly black connective; ovary linear, 

 gradually extended into the style, glabrous, subtended by a 

 callous rim, 3 cm. long with the style which is puberulent 

 toward the distal end; stigma large, rim-like or obscurely 

 lobed, finely papillose. Young fruit 1.5 cm. long, 5 mm. 

 thick, terete, fusiform, appearing scaly, gradually tapering 



