DeceMBeER 31, 1910] NEW AND INTERESTING GESNERACEAE 969 
base cuneate, more infrequently obtuse or rounded; midrib 
conspicuous beneath, with 13 to 17 pinnately ascending later- 
al pairs whose apices are usually united, all brown and 
fulvous pubescent, the secondary nerves and  reticulations 
faint; petiole varying from 1 to 4 cm. in length, similarly 
appressed hairy, ultimately glabrate, yellowish green; bud 
_ bracts 1.5 cm. long, covered with cinnamon brown strongly 
appressed hairs, oblongish. Flowers not seen; fruits 1 to 3- 
clustered; pedicels slightly thickened toward the distal end, 
subrecurved, 1.5 cm. long, glabrous, subtended at the base 
by minute bracts; calyx campanulate, also glabrous, rigidly 
coriaceous, 1 em. long, unequally 5-segmented, the teeth 
averaging 5 mm. long, yellowish green; fruit ellipsoid, 1.75 
em. long, hard, green, falsely 4-celled, bearing a prominent 
point, irregularly dehiscent; seeds very many, imbedded in 
the fleshy pulp, brown, mainly ellipsoid in outline, fully 0.5 
mm. long, punctate. 
Type specimen 10595, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, May, 1909. 
‘““Magamamo’’ is the vernacular Bagobo name, and was 
only once seen about a large tree trunk 25 feet from the 
humid ground, in dense rainy forests at 4000 feet of mount 
Calelan. 
This as well as the preceding are very near relatives of 
C. tayabensis Elm., yet the leaves on our specimen have 3 
to 5 more pairs of lateral nerves, bluntly acute at apex 
instead of acuminate, and are rather ovately oblong than 
obovately oblong. 
Cyrtandra sibuyanensis Elm. n. sp. 
Scandent; stem 1.5 em. thick, terete, very flexible, 
sparingly branched toward the top only; branches heavy, 
the slender ones more or less drooping and with ascendingly 
curved tips, stout, rufous hairy on the young portions; wood 
soft, greenish white, with a large green pith, odorless and 
tasteless; old bark yellowish, smooth, otherwise dark green. 
Leaves opposite, scattered toward the ends, coriaceous, hor- 
izontal or descending, fiat, only the sharply acute tips 
recurved, glabrous and very deep lucid green above, pulver- 
