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 GESNERTACE.i:. 



CYRTANDRA Foist. 



Cyrtandra villosissima jMeiiill sp. iiov. 



A shrub very densely fernio-inous vill«nis tlirougliout witli long soft 

 hairs, the pubescence felted on the younger branches, inflorescence, 

 petioles and under surface of the leaves. Branches brown, terete, the 

 older ones less densely villous than the ultimate branches. Leaves thick, 

 oblong-ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 11 to 20 cm. long, 3.5 to 8 cm. wide, 

 narrowed above to the rather slender acuminate apex, and below to the 

 acute or acuminate strongly inequilateral base, densely softly ferruginous 

 villous throughout, paler lieneath, the upper siirface less densely pubes- 

 cent than the lower, the margins dentate above, densely ciliate villous; 

 nerves 12 to 1-1 on each side of the midrib; petioles densely felted villous, 

 4 cm. long or less. Cymes axillar}', several flowered, about 3 cm. long, 

 the bracts linear, 1 cm. long or less, densely felted villous like the rest 

 of the inflorescence. Calyx lobes linear, 1.5 cm. long, 1 mm. wide, per- 

 sistent, densely villous. Corolla about 18 mm. long, somewhat hirsute 

 outside, tubular, subequally 5-lobed, the lobes orbicular-ovate, about 4 

 mm. long, pilose outside. Stamens 2, inserted at about the middle of the 

 tube, included; filaments about 2 mm. long; anthers 2.5 mm. Ovary 

 ol)long, densely pilose; style pilose, included. 2-cleft; stigmas broadly 

 elliptical-ovate. Disk cup-shaped, glabrous, 1 mm. long. Capsule ol)- 

 lon"-, about 1 cm. long, 4.5 mm. thick, hirsute. Seeds indcdnite, ol)loiig, 

 al)out 0.3 mm. long, glabrous, brown. 



IMiNDANAO, Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley (51 Mrs. Clemens) January, 190G. 

 A very characteristic sjiecies, recognizable by its very dense, felted, ferruginous 

 soft, villous pubescence, perhaps most closely related to Cyrtandra mollis DeVriese. 



MONOPHYLLEA R. Br. 



Monophyllea lowei ('. B. Clarke in DC. Monog. Plian. 5 (1883) 18.3. 



Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, San Ramon (1.505 Copcland) December 11. 

 1!)()4. In rocky gorges in forests at about IGO m. 



No species of this Malayan genus has previously been reported from the 

 Philippines, the above specimens differing from Monophyllea loivei in its some- 

 what smaller leaA'es, but I am unable to separate it by other characters, the 

 original description of Clarke's species being rather short. Borneo. 



PARABOEA Ridl. 



Paraboea luzoniensis Merrill sp. nov. 



Stems stout, 5 to 7 cm. long, somewhat floccose, gray. Leaves umny. 

 crowded, long petioled, elliptical-ovate to elliptical-obovate, membranous, 

 7 to 11 cm. long, 4 to 7 cm. wide, subentire, the apex broad, rounded, 

 rarely somewhat acute, the Ijase acute or subtruncate, often olflirpie, the 

 u])per surface glabrous or nearly so, tlie lowei' surface paler, more or less 

 densely floccose ])ul)escent : nerves (I to S on each side of the midrib. 



