964 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IH, Arr. 53 
bark smooth, yellowish; branches terete, 5 mm. thick, soft 
umbrinus pubescent on the younger portion. Leaves horizon- 
tal or curvingly decending, soft, membranous in texture, 
paler green beneath, dull green in the dry state, opposite, 
well seattered, soft pubescent on both sides, unequal in 
size, the normal blades 1.5 dm. long and 6.5 cm. wide 
across the middle, broadly oblong with acute ends, the basal 
portion entire, otherwise minutely serrately dentate; midrib 
conspicuous beneath, with 6 to 8 ascendingly curved lateral 
pairs, reticulations evident from below; petiole similarly pu- 
bescent, 1 to 3 cm. long. Inflorescence few -fascicled in the 
leaf axils, subtended by bracts; flowers odorless, upon a few 
mm. long pedice!, subtended by a pair of bracts; bracts 
1 cm. long, linear, 1 mm. wide, pubescent as are also the 
thick pedicels; calyx green, hairy, sheath like, 16 mm. long, 
the basal one half united into a saccate tube, the very 
oblique throat slit along the lower side, acuminate, striate; 
corolla 2.5 em. long, slightly curved, delicate, the basal one 
third tubularly constricted, the upper two thirds inflated, 
sericeous pilose, ascending  divaricate, snow white, the 
lower basal side yellowish and its 5 segments with 2 purplish 
side streaks, nearly equal, rotately spreading, rotund in 
outline, 5 mm. long, margins irregularly dissected; sta- 
mens 2, well included, inserted upon the corolla below the 
middle; filaments compressed, rather thick, glabrous; anthers 
basifixed, ovoid, attached to the inner side of the acute 
connection; ovary much elongated, glabrous; style nearly as 
long, pubescent; stigma disk-like, pulverulent; fruit greenish 
brown, ascendingly curved, sausage-shaped, gradually taper- 
ing from near the base to the apex, 2 cm. long, irregular, 
ly breaking; seeds many, brown, imbedded in a pulp. 
Type specimen 11273, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, August, 1909. 
Gathered in moist humus covered fertile soil of a gentle 
forested slope at 2750 feet at the base of mount Calelan. 
This unique species is rare in our locatily! 
Cyrtandra ramiflora Elm. n. sp. 
Laxly branched shrub, 2 m. high; stems soft, easily 
