962 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY (Vor. III, Arr. 53 
the ground, in small loose clusters; peduncle a few mm. 
long, pubescent; pedicels similarly pubescent, 7.5 mm. long; 
the subtending bracts linear oblong or lanceolate, at least 
.5 mm. long or much shorter, also pubescent; calyx soft in 
texture, 1.5 cm. long, tubular, hairy, termiuated by 5 
setosely acuminate teeth; corolla 3 to 5 cm. long, delicate 
in texture, the basal one third tubular, otherwise saccate, 
the 5 broadly rounded segments rotately rounded, brown bristly 
hairy on the outside, white; fertile stamens 2, inserted in 
the middle and far included; filaments glabrous, flattened, 
wand-like; anthers basifixed, sagittately oblong, 2.5 mm. long; 
ovary much elongated, glabrous, subtended by a smooth cup- 
ular disk; style longer than the ovary yet included, dense- 
ly pubescent; stigma fleshy, flattened, subentire, puberulent 
above; fruit 1.5 em. long, fusiform, dehiscent irregularly, sur- 
rounded by the persistent calyx; the 2 fleshy placentae con- 
tain numerous light brown subellipsoid faintly pitted seeds 
0.2 mm. in length. 
Type specimen 11704, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Distriet of Davao, Mindanao, September, 1909. 
Seattering in very moist or nearly swampy soil of deep 
densely forested flats at 4000 feet, near the Mainit creek. 
It belongs in the same group as C. humilis Elm. and C. atten- 
uata Elm., but very distinct from either. 
Cyrtandra apoensis Elm. n. sp. 
Shrub 3 m. high; stem 7.5 em. thick or thicker, crooked- 
ly branched above the middle; wood odorless and tasteless, 
soft, watery, whitish or greenish white, with a large brown 
pith; bark brown, very thinly checked; branches sparingly 
rebranched, 4-sided, greenish, heavy, glabrous. Leaves oppo- 
site, widely scattering, heavy and succulent, horizontally spread- 
ing, the upper side glabrous or sparsely hairy when young, 
the nerves fuliginously short pubescent beneath, ex- 
ceedingly variable in size, limp, slightly recurved toward the 
acute apex, otherwise flat, dark green and sublucid above, 
much lighter or yellowish green beneath, the smaller blades 
less than 1 dm. long, the largest 4 dm. long, oblong, base 
obtusely rounded or bluntly cuneate and occasionally a little 
inequilateral, margins shallowly dentate, drying umber brown; 
