DECEMBER 31, 1910] NEW AND INTERESTING GESNERACEAE 961 
a 2 mm, deep cupular disk; style about as long, bearing 
a flattened subentire stigma; fertile stamens 2, besides 2 
filamentous vestiges; filaments very broad, glabrous, somewhat 
curved, far included, inserted upon the tube below the infla- 
tion; anthers flattened, 2.5 mm. long, broadly oblong, the con- 
nective with few fine glandular hairs; fruits like sausages, 3 to 
5 cm. long, green, terete, ascendingly curved, splitting open 
irregularly, pointed at the apex, less than 5 mm. thick; 
seeds broadly oblong in outline, 0.75 mm. long, dark brown, 
coarsely pustulate, numerous, imbedded in fleshy placentae. 
Type specimen 10698, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, May, 1909. 
Discovered among numerous climbers about large moss- 
covered tree trunks in dense humid forests at 3500 feet. 
"Balingkogay" is the native Bagobo name. 
Closely allied to ©. suffruticosa Ridl., C. falcata Ridl. 
and to C. oblongifolia (Blm.) Benth. et Hook., but especially 
to the latter from which it differs notably in having near- 
ly one half dozen less of lateral pairs of nerves which are 
not at all obscure; inflorescent bracts larger in ours, and 
with the calyx segments otherwise than linear. 
Cyrtandra decussata Elm. n. sp. 
Coarse succulent perennial herbs or the basal parts suf- 
frutescent; stem terete, 1 cm. thick, reclining and taking 
root toward the base, ultimately erect or suberect, sparing- 
ly branched, dull green, the young tips badius hairy. 
Leaves horizontally spreading, flat, rigidly coriaceous, op- 
posite and decussately arranged, deep green on the upper 
glabrous surface, much lighter or yellowish green beneath, 
turning to a brownish black when dry, obovately oblong, 
1 dm. long by 3 cm. wide above the middle, alternate 
at the base, obtusely rounded at apex, entire toward the 
base, sinuously serrate or dentate; midrib very prominent 
beneath, 5 to 7 main lateral ascending pairs or fewer, re- 
ticulations coarse and more abundant toward the margins, 
all the nerves fuliginously pubescent beneath and darker 
green on the upper. side; petioles 1 cm. long, badius pubes- 
cent; the uppermost ones very deep brown or nearly black. 
Flowers chiefly in the old leaf axils along the stem near 
