2660 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. VII, Art. 114 
Cyrtandra constricta Elm. n. sp. 
Da 
Scandent along small tree stems; stem 1.75 cm thick, 
terete, crookedly rebranched, 5 m long; branches slender, 
the leaf bearing portion ascendingly curved, only the very 
young tips hairy; wood yellowish green, covered with yellow- 
ish gray thinly checked bark. Petiole whitish, blackish brown 
when dry, grooved along the upper side, glabrous when old, 
strict, 3 to 5 cm long; leaves opposite, scattered along the 
branchlets, horizontal, leathery, very dark green on the up- 
per glabrous side, much lighter gréen on the nether side 
which only in the very young state is strigose, obtuse or 
subcuneate at the base, acute at the apex, entire below the 
middle, otherwise bluntly apiculate, oblong, average lamina 
14 cm long by 5 cm wide, upper surface blackish and sub- 
umber colored beneath when dry; midrib at first yellowish 
hairy, ultimately glabrate, very deep dull brown beneath 
when dry; lateral nerves ascending and only slightly curved, 
8 to 11 pairs, their tips forming a submarginal vein, much 
more evident from below, reticulations obsolete. Flowers not 
seen. Infrutescence suberect or horizontally spreading from 
the lower leaf axils, the solitary or few clustered pedicels 
arising from short tubercles roughened by scars; pedicels gla- 
brate, 1.5 em long. terete, rather slender, slightly thicken- 
ed toward the distal end, subtended toward or at the base 
by a subwhorl of imbricated bracts; bracts marcescent, sub- 
persistent, brown when dry, 6 mm long or less, unequal 
in size, oblong to ovately lanceolate, connate at the base and 
imbrieate or twisted, olivaceus appressed hairy on the outer 
exposed sides, after falling exposing tufts of persistent ciliate 
similarly colored hairs; calyx proper 1.5 cm long, grad- 
ually tapering from the base to the oblique usually 3-tooth- 
ed apex, on one side becoming slit open down to the mid- 
dle or below it, chartaceous, glabrous, terete, green, the rigid 
segments purplish tinged. Fruit dark green, obovoidly elong- 
ated, terete, glabrous, 2 cm long, 9 mm thick above the 
middle, apex constricted into an elongated point, berry-like; 
seeds numerous, in a juicy gelatinous mass, brown, subterete, 
elliptic from the side view, 0.5 mm long. 
