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LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. III, Arr. 53 
Cyrtandra mindanaensis Elm. n. sp. 
A sparingly branched shrub, about 2 m. high; stem 
terete, reclining at the base, 2.5 cm. thick; branchlets few, 
the ultimate ones suberect, the tips fulvous hairy but soon 
becoming glabrous; the old bark smooth and yellowish. 
Leaves opposite and equal in size, chiefly toward the ends 
of the branchlets, heavy and a trifle succulent, shallowly 
concave beneath, horizontal, dull green on the upper glabrous 
surface, paler green beneath and more or less covered with 
short ferruginous hairs, 2.5 dm. long, 9 cm. wide across the 
middle or a little above it, obscurely obovately oblong, apex 
rounded with a short acute point, gradually narrowing toward 
the decurrent bases, coarsely and unequally serrately dentate, 
subentire toward the base, in the dry state nearly black on the 
upper side and dull green beneath; midrib very pronounced be- 
neath, ultimately glabrate, with 11 to 13 ascendingly curved 
and parallel lateral pairs, fulvous pubescent, reticulations none 
or very obscure; petiole stout, 1 to 2 cm. long but usually 
the sides of the lamina are decurrent clear to the base, gla- 
brous in age. Inflorescence axillary, ascending, upon stout 1 
to 1.5 em. long peduncles; flowering bracts greenish, sub- 
membranous, tomentosely ferruginous, ovate, 3 cm. long, the 
inner ones somewhat smaller; flowers numerously clustered; 
pedicels 1 em. long, densely hairy; calyx at least 1.5 em. long, 
tubular, sericeous pubescent except toward the base, with 
conspicuous veins, the 5 equal oblong teeth 5 mm. long and 
acutely pointed; corolla tubular except toward the dilated throat, 
roundly 5-segmented, pubescent on the outside especially on 
the tube; pistil glabrate, subtended by a conspicuous disk, ovary 
oblong, neck short, stigma obscurely bilobed; filaments short, 
included, glabrous, flattened and wand-like, 7, bearing 2 fertile 
anthers which are broadly elliptic and 3 mm. long; fruit 
glabrous, 2 em. long, broadly fusiform, elliptic in outline, 
splitting open irregularly; seeds indefinite, in lobed fleshy pla- 
centae, oblong in outline, brown, 0.5 mm. long, blistery. 
Type specimen 11711, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, September, 1909. 
This ‘‘Pasong-pasong’’ as the. Bagobos call it, was discovered 
in very rich and moist soil of dense forests at 4000 feet. 
