DxckMBER, 31, 1910] NEW AND INTERESTING GESNERACEAE 967 
included; filaments glabrous, curved, one of the two much 
shorter, the connective glandularly hairy, greenish white, 
anthers brownish, broadly oblong, 0.75 mm. long; ovary grad- 
ually extending into the short rather thick green style, pale 
green, glabrous toward the base, otherwise glandular pubes- 
cent; stigma dark green, subentire, slightly bilobed, disk-like, 
puberulent on the upper side; the ovary disk glabrous, cup- 
shaped, 1.25 mm. deep; fruit ellipsoid, 7 mm. long, 4 mm. 
thick across the middle, 2-celled; seeds minute, very numerous, 
imbedded in 4 vertical fleshy lobes, oblong, 0.2 mm. long, 
straw brown, sparsely pitted. 
Type specimen 11497, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Distriet of Davao, Mindanao, August, 1909. 
Collected on densely wooded banks of the Cati creek in 
moist humus covered soil at 5750 feet of mount Apo. "''Manag- 
chilau’’ is the Bagobo name. The copious leaves are similar 
to those of certain species of Callicarpa. 
Cyrtandra laxa Elm. n. sp. 
Lax shrub, 3 m. high; stem several em. thick, branched 
from near the base, the main branches ascending and slenderly 
rebranched, the twigs numerous and somewhat drooping; wood 
without odor or taste, whitish but turning yellowish when 
exposed; bark smooth, dirty yellowish or yellowish brown. 
Leaves flat, mostly descending, limp, very deep dull green 
above and in the younger state olivaceous hairy, much light- 
er green beneath and densely so pubescent along the veins, 
very unequal in size, opposite, only toward the ends of the 
branchlets, occasionally subfaleate and slightly  inequilateral 
toward the entire and attenuate or short cuneate base, the young 
leaves and bud bracts densely covered with tawny appressed 
hairs, the larger margins apiculate and with tuftlets of hairs, the 
larger blades 15 em. long by 4 em. across the middle, lan- 
ceolate to oblongish lanceolate; midrib very pronounced be- 
neath, with 7 to 9 much ascendingly curved lateral pairs, 
reticulations relatively conspicuous beneath, all olivaceous brown 
pubescent; petiole 1 to 2 em. long, similar in color and 
pubescence; flowers in small loose fascicles in the leaf axils; 
pedicels at most 1 cm. long, hairy, subtended by minute 
bracts; calyx  subeampanulate, 1 cm. long, 5-segmented to 
