DzcEMBER 31, 1910] NEW AND INTERESTING GESNERACEAE 957 
blades 3 dm. long, 1 dm. wide above the middle, the apex 
short acute, the base subpandurate and entire, otherwise 
crenately dentate, the upper side grayish brown in the dry 
state; midrib stout and pronounced beneath, rufous pubes- 
cent, with 11 oblique or ascendingly curved lateral main 
pairs, these frequently alternating with minor pairs, their 
tips reticulately united, the coarse yet very evident reticula- 
tions more numerous toward the margins, all brown and 
wearing glabrous; petiole none; the lamina gradually taper- 
ing from the middle down to the narrowly rounded base. 
Inflorescence upon stout rufous brown pubescent 1.5 cm. 
long stalks; flowers severally clustered and subtended by 
a pair of pale green ovate foliaceous bracts 3 cm. in 
length and with conspicuous brown pubescent nerves; ped- 
icels 5 mm. long when in fruit; calyx tubular, thinly 
membranous, 2 cm. long, brown hairy on the outside, with 
conspicuous nerves, dissected into 5 slenderly acuminate or 
setosely pointed segments; ovary 6 mm. long, elongated, 
glabrous; style twice as long, densely villous, bearing a 
bilobed stigma; corolla 4 cm. long, ascending, white, decid- 
uous, gradually tapering from base to the rather broad throat, 
villose on the outside; fertile stamens 2, included; fil- 
aments compressed, glabrous, inserted below the middle of 
the corolla tube; anthers broadly ellipsoid, 8 mm. long; 
fruit 1.5 cm. long, ovoidly ellipsoid, glabrous, irregularly 
dehiscing, subtended by a spreading fimbriately toothed disk; 
seeds indefinite, inserted upon elongated fleshy receptacles, 
angularly oblong, brown, less than 0.5 mm. long, obscurely 
blistery. 
Type specimen 12369, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, April, 
1910. 
Discovered in moist loose fine gravelly soil of densely 
wooded stream banks at 1750 feet, near the trail on the 
Espafia side of the ridge. a 
A segregate of C. cumingii Clarke, and quite different 
in many characters. It is also specifically distinct from C. 
