DeceMBeER 31, 1910] New AND INTERESTING GESNERACEAE 965 
breaking, gnarly; wood greenish white, pith rather large, 
turning yellowish red after being cut; bark greenish gray, 
striately winged and becoming somewhat checked when old; 
branchlets brown, relatively short and crooked, when young 
densely covered with badius colored hairs. Leaves scattered 
along the twigs, opposed by very small blades usually or 
occasionally without bracts even or opposed by an equal- 
ly sized leaf, coriaceous, flat, descending, the old ones 
dull green above, yellowish so beneath, exceedingly vari- 
able in size, the largest lamina 18 cm. long by 3 em. 
wide across the middle, tawny brown and pubescent be- 
neath especially on the nerves, entire toward the atten- 
uate or obtusely cuneate base, the sharply acute or acumi- 
nate tips recurved, the smaller ones lanceolate or oblance- 
olate, the larger ones oblong with sharp ends, serrately apic- 
ulate on the margins except the basal one third; midrib 
prominently raised beneath, with more or less 9 ascendingly 
arched lateral pairs whose tips are reticulately united, the 
reticulations quite prominent beneath, all badius pubescent 
beneath; petiole 5 to 15 mm. long, similarly pubescent. 
Inflorescence in the axils of the leaves but mostly in the 
axils of the fallen leaves on the branches, along the stems 
or even on the roots, upon woody numerously branched 
stalks varying from 1 to 10 em. in length; branches short, 
crooked, thick, the older smooth and yellowish gray stalks 
angular, the younger portions badius pubescent; bracts short, 
similarly pubescent; pedicels in fruit at least 1 cm. long, 
slender, soft brown hairy; calyx 1 cm. long, pubescent, 5- 
segmented nearly to the base, yellowish green, lanceolate, 
the apical margins coalescent; corolla 1.5 em. long, 
dilated toward the apex, soft pubescent, deep pink except 
the whitish tube, deciduous, obscurely bilobed; the upper 3 
segments as broad as long, the lower 2 lobes much shorter 
and nearly as wide; fertile stamens 2, besides 2 filamentous 
vestiges, scarcely reaching the throat, inserted at the middle 
of the tube; filaments looping, glabrous; anthers broadly 
oblong, 1.5 mm. long, the connective on the back hairy, 
basifixed; ovary glabrous at the base and surrounded by a 
smooth cupular disk, otherwise finely pubescent, gradually 
extended into the style which bears a subentire fleshy disk- 
