x.c, 1 MerTill: New or Noteworthy Philippine Plmits, XI 79 



Leaves somewhat crowded toward the ends of the branchlets, 

 oblong, coriaceous, 18 to 25 cm long, 4 to 8 cm wide, the upper 

 surface glabrous, dark-olivaceous, smooth, the lower much paler, 

 the apex shortly but sharply acuminate, the base long and 

 narrowly decurrent, winging the stout, 3 to 6 cm long petiole, 

 the margins rather coarsely and irregularly serrate; nerves 14 

 to 16 on each side of the midrib, curved-ascending, very prom- 

 inent on the lower surface, and with the midrib and the primary 

 reticulations densely lanate-pubescent with brown hairs. Inflo- 

 rescence axillary, sessile, the flowers crowded, shortly pedicelled, 

 subtended by an involucre of large bracts. Bracts numerous, 

 white, narrowly obovate to ovate-elliptic, membranaceous, up to 

 3 cm long and 2 cm wide, acuminate, coarsely toothed, sessile, 

 prominently veined, the reticulations lax, slightly pubescent. 

 Calyx about 18 cm long, outside appressed ferruginous-lanate, 

 the upper 1 cm divided into 5, ovate-lanceolate, long and slender- 

 ly acuminate lobes. Corolla white, narrowly campanulate, 3 

 cm long, the two lobes of the upper lip about 6 mm long, 

 orbicular-ovate, rounded, the cleft between them narrow, 5 mm 

 deep, the three lobes of the lower lip broadly ovate, rounded, 

 about 10 mm long. Stamens 4 ; anthers about 2.5 mm long. 

 Ovary narrowly ovoid, glabrous, 4 to 5 mm long ; style pubescent 

 below the stigma. Capsule narrowly ellipsoid, about 12 mm 

 long. 



Luzon, Provinces of Tayabas and Laguna, Mount Banajao, Merrill 7515 

 (type), February, 1911, Whitford 931, 1008, October, 1904: without definite 

 locality, Loher 6650. Merrill 5578, from Mount Halcon, Mindoro, a very 

 poor specimen, is also apparently referable here. 



This species has previously been confused with Cyrtandra cumingii 

 Clarke, to which it is allied, but from which it differs in many characters, 

 the shape and pubescense of its leaves, and the elongated, narrowly winged 

 petioles. It is apparently closer to Cyrtandra rex Kranzl. than to C. ciim- 

 ingii Clarke, but is very different from Kranzlin's species. 



CYRTANDRA NANA sp. nov. § Brevicaules. 



Planta parva, glabra, erecta, simplex, circiter 4 cm alta ; f oliis 

 oppositis et ternis, sessilibus, oblongis, chartaceis, acutis, serratis, 

 aequalibus, circiter 2 cm longis, 4 mm latis ; floribus axillaribus, 

 solitariis, circiter 1 cm longis, calycibus alte 5-partitis. 



A small, glabrous, erect, unbranched plant about 4 cm high. 

 Leaves rather crowded, the internodes short, mostly teniate or 

 some opposite, equal, sessile, chartaceous, oblong, about 2 cm 

 long, 4 mm wide, acute, base narrowed-decurrent, margins 

 sharply serrate, the nerves obscure. Flowers apparently pur- 



