DECEMBER 31, 1910] NEW AND INTERESTING GESNERACEAE 951 
13 em. long, 3 to 5 em. wide across the middle, distinctly 
inequilateral and subfalcate, acute at apex, base obliquely 
rounded and inequilateral, usually provided with opposite 
small leaf-like bracts, entire or obscurely and irregularly 
dentate along the lower side; petiole 5 to 10 mm. long, 
crisply grayish green pubescent; midvein conspicuous be- 
neath, with 5 to 9 ascendingly curved lateral pairs, retic- 
ulations coarse but quite evident beneath, all puberulent. 
Inflorescence terminal, erect, 1 dm. long or less, branched 
above the middle; peduncles few to several cm. long, crisply 
puberulent, subtended by bracts toward the base; branches 
strict, ascending, similarly pubescent, very sparingly rebranch- 
ed, the lower ones subtended by conspicuous bracts; the larger 
pedicels 1 cm. long, strict, subtended by minute bracts or 
more commonly without them; flowers subpendulous, odorless; 
calyx glabrate or soft and short pubescent on the outside es- 
pecially toward the base, veiny, 1.5 cm, across, the 5 acute- 
ly pointed segments united and rotately spreading; petals 5, 
ovately oblong or merely oblong, azure blue except the whit- 
ish margins, 7.5 mm. long, early falling; stamens 4, all fer- 
tile; filaments glabrous; anthers broadly cordate and basifixed, 
introrse, dehiscent obliquely or transversely when the 2 cells 
are well separated; ovary compressed, globose, puberulent, false- 
ly 4-celled; ovules numerous, on 4 fleshy receptacles; style 
short and thick, puberulent; stigma disk-like, with 2 yellow- 
ish rugose excrescences on the upper side, the margins of the 
rim short; fruit flatly conical, glabrous, circumscissile dehis- 
cent, fimbriate or nearly smooth; seeds brown, obscurely pit- 
ted, 0.5 mm. long, angularly oblong or with conspicuous fusi- 
form ends especially the distal one. 
Type specimen 10742, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, May, 1909. 
Collected in mud-gravelly soil along the Baruring river 
at 3500 feet or upon seepage well shaded cliffs along the same 
river. ''"Tumbekai is the Bagobo name. 
S. ecalcarata R. Br., but leaves not purplish tinged be- 
neath, averaging narrower, all alternate and distinctly petioled, 
gradually not abruptly tapering toward the apex; pedicels 
mostly without subtending bracts; ovary not pilose; seeds dif- 
ferent in shape, 
