956 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY (Vor. IIT, Arr. 53 
ly on the outside and along the margins, occasionally smaller 
ones intermixed; calyx at least 1 cm. long, forming’ an im- 
bricate tube, villose hairy on the outside, green especially 
toward the bud, the 5 segments linearly oblong and united 
toward their bases; corolla yellowish red, 3 cm. long, 4 
mm. thick across the glabrous base, 14 mm. across the 
throat, otherwise pubescent except on the inner side below 
the middle; throat oblique, the 5 segments subrotund, the low- 
er one reflexed and further separated; stamens 4, didymous, 
barely exerted; the glabrous somewhat compressed filaments in- 
serted a trifle below the middle; anthers flattish, rotund from 
the connective side, 2.5 cm. long, attached on the back toward 
the base; ovary glabrous, strap-like, with a 5 mm. long 
neck which bears a broadly rounded bilobed stigma, sub- 
tended at the base by a glabrous callous rim; pods subterete, 
smooth, faleate, 1 dm. long, young; seeds with a single 
hair-like appendage from each end, one brownish the other 
transparently white. 
Type specimen 11347, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, August, 1909. 
Creeping and climbing upon moss laden roots, trunks 
and limbs of the elfinwoods at or near the summit of mount 
Calelan at 8500 feet. ‘‘Tasik-ta-lomot’’ is the native Bagobo 
name. Quite common but nowhere else seen. 
It forms a very natural alliance with D. glabrum Copel. and 
D. chorisepalum Clarke from the Philippines, and D. ternateum 
Reinw. from Ternate island. 
CYRTANDRA Forst. 
Cyrtandra gitingensis Elm. n. sp. 
Succulent perennial herbs or suffrutescent shrubs; stem few 
or solitary from the root, subterete, yellowish green, heavy and 
watery, sparingly branched, 1 to 2 m. long, reclining and 
taking root toward the base, ultimately ascendingly curved. 
Leaves mostly toward the top, ascending from the base, 
limp, gracefully recurved, shining deep green &bove, much 
paler beneath even when dry, opposite and nearly equal 
glabrous on both sides except the nerves beneath, the langer 
