Marcu 27, 1915] Two Hunprep Twenty Six New Species—I 2663 
Foliage is similar to Cyrtandra hypochrysoides Krand. but 
inflorescence entirely different. Possibly it should be clas- 
sified under some other genus. 
Cyrtandra grandifolia Elm. n. sp. 
Succulent and frutescent shrub; stem solitary or few from 
the short prop roots, 2 m high, 3 to 6 em thick, terete, 
unbranched, upright and straight; wood very soft, sappy 
white, with a very large green pith; bark characteristically 
checked longitudinally, nearly caesius in color, the middle 
portion green, the inner side brown; twigs or the apical stem 
portion 2.5 em thick, obscurely angular, brown. Leaves op- 
posite, few to several pairs, decussately arranged, horizontal 
or descending, heavy and leathery, dark velvety green on 
the upper surface, much paler green and with a soft short 
brown tomentose pubescence on the nether side, 6 to 9 dm 
long, 1.5 to 2.5 dm wide across the middle, oblong, ob- 
tusely rounded at the base, apex obtuse, margins entire or 
irregularly denticulate, curing grayish brown beneath and 
blackish above; petiole very stout, 3 cm long more or less, 
reddish brown hairy, thickened at the base, frequently bor- 
dered with the decurrent leaf base; midrib thick and light 
fuligineus beneath, cinereously pubescent along the upper 
side especially toward the base; lateral nerves 18 to 28 
pairs, pinnate, divaricate, ascendingly curved toward their 
ends, similar in vestiture and prominence to the midrib, 
cross bars and reticulations faint. Inflorescence ascending 
from the leaf axils, upon short thick fulvus hairy stalks; 
involucral bracts greenish, the outer or larger ones subfulvus 
hairy, 5 cm long, ovate and acute toward the apex, occa- 
sionally the inner ones obovate and the broadly rounded 
apex irregularly lobed or cut; flowers few to several in a 
cluster of the bracts, erect, only a few in anthesis at a 
time; calyx white and greenish toward the lobed apex, sub- 
membranous, 2 cm long, pulverulent on the exterior, 7.5 
mm wide toward the distal end, only one half as wide at 
the base; lobes 4 mm long, irregular in size, the lower ap- 
parently broader and bilobed; pedicels 1.25 cm long, stout, 
puberulent, inserted in a row upon the basal portion of the 
