DECEMBER 31, 1910] New AND INTERESTING GESNERACEAE 959 
Leaves with 11 to 13 lateral nerves, not 7-nerved as in 
C. incisa Clarke, and with much larger inflorescent bracts. 
Its much larger leaves and glabrous fruits at once distinguish 
it from C. philippinensis of the same author. 
Cyrtandra talonensis Elm. n. sp. 
Lax shrub, 2 or more m. high; stems and branches covered 
with smooth or thinly shredded yellowish bark; branchlets lax 
and spreading, olivaceous pubescent on the younger tips. Leaves 
eoriaceous, horizontal or descending, flat, dull green above on the 
ultimately glabrous side, 1.5 dm. long by 5 em. wide across the 
middle, oblongish, at the apex abruptly terminating into a short 
acute point, obtuse at the very base but the sides gradually 
narrowing from the middle toward the base, serrately dentate 
or apiculate except the subentire margins toward the base, 
dull green on both sides when dry, beneath appressed hairy 
especially the nerves, alternate, widely scattering, opposed by 
1 cm. long, olivaceous brown pubescent, slenderly acuminate 
bracts which easily fall off; petiole 1.5 cm. long, caniculate 
along the upper side, covered with olivaceous hairs; midrib 
conspicuous beneath, with 7 much ascending lateral pairs, 
reticulations scarcely evident, all the nerves densely olivaceous 
brown pubescent. Inflorescent stalk or peduncle slender, aris- 
ing terminally, axillary or laterally, subpendulous, averaging 
3 cm. long, soft umber brown pubescent, at the apex bear- 
ing a loose cluster of flowers; the subtending bracts similarly 
pubescent, subpersistent, the basal pair 6 mm. long, 3.5 mm. 
across the base, acute at apex, the inner ones much smaller; 
pedicels 3 to 5 mm. long, densely hairy; calyx 8 mm. long, 
basal portion united, the 5 oblongish segments terminating 
into slenderly acuminate tips whose margins are more or 
less united on the upper side, glabrate on the same side; 
corolla dull fleshy red, 1 cm. long, tubular except the more 
or less expanded throat, sparsely pilose except the glabrous 
basal portion and the outer side of the segments; segments 
5, subequal, subrotund or broadly elliptic; fertile stamens 
2; filaments inserted in the middle portion of the corolla 
tube and included by it, much curved, fleshy; anthers oblong, 
1.25 mm. long, their connectives glandular; ovary elongat- 
