DeceMBEB 31, 1910] New AND INTERESTING GESNERACEAE 963 
midrib stout beneath, with 10 to 17 ascending lateral pairs 
whose tips form a submarginal line, reticulations relatively 
prominent beneath, all dark brown and hairy; petiole 
becoming glabrate, from 2 to 10 cm. long. Inflorescence 
subpendulous, along the stem, in small clusters of subligneous 
branches from 1.5 cm. to 5 dm. long, only sparingly 
branched from near the base, wholly glabrous; the ultimate 
branches slender, usually curved, nodulose every 1 to 2 
cm., angularly striate and yellowish gray; pedicels 2 cm. 
long, usually few from the nodes, shorter in the flowering 
state; calyx tubular, campanulate, 1.5 cm. long, more or 
less inflated, green except toward the purplish base; its lobes 
5, subequal, 3 to 5 cm. long, triangularly obtuse; corolla 
cardinal red, 2.5 cm. long, saccate above the middle, sub- 
bulbose at the base, nearly straight, the 5 lobes comparatively 
very shallow and strongly reflexed; stamens 2 fertile and 2 
sterile, attached in the corolla tube at about the middle, 
the fertile ones barely exerted; filaments whitish, glabrous, - 
curved; anthers with purple connectives, ovately oblong, 2.5 
mm. long, basifixed; ovary gradually tapering into the thick 
similarly colored style, subtended by a minute disk, glabrate 
or puberulent toward the neck; stigma disk-like, thick and 
fleshy, subentire, dark green; fruit irregularly opening, 2 cm. 
long, prominently pointed, fusiform; the numerous seeds sub- 
ellipsoid, 0.33 mm. long, brown and pustulate, imbedded in 
fleshy lobed receptacles. 
Type specimen 11557, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. 
Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, August, 1909. 
First discovered as a hanging shrub upon cliffs at the 
upper end of the Cati creek falls at 5750 feet; subsequently 
it was more abundantly noticed as an erect spreading shrub 
along the same creek further up on mount Apo. The Bagobos 
call it ''Cati-bang-bang."' 
Allied to the genus Cyrtandromoea Zoll. which however has 
four fertile stamens. 
Cyrtandra membranifolia Elm. n. sp. 
A lax under shrub, 1 to 2 m. high; stems several from 
the same cluster, 1.5 cm. thiek, reclining toward the base, 
only sparingly branched; wood easily breaking, greenish; 
