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Rate, the upper surface glabrous, dark-olivaceous, the lower much 

 paler, in very unequal pairs; larger leaf of each pair oblong- 

 obovate, 12 to 18 cm long, 5 to 8 cm wide, the apex usually 

 broadly rounded, narrowed below to the acute or obtuse, usually 

 strongly inequilateral base; primarj' lateral nerves about 7 on 

 each side of the midrib, prominent on the lower surface, irreg- 

 ular, the reticulations lax; petioles densely villous, 12 mm long 

 or less: smaller leaves of each pair mostly elliptic, 1.5 to 4 cm 

 long, 0.8 to 2 cm wide, shortly petioled, slightly acuminate. 

 Flowers white, axillary, solitary, ebracteolate, the pedicels 

 densely villous, slender, about 2 cm long. Calyx 2 cm long, sub- 

 persistent, narrowly campanulate, villous-pubescent with scat- 

 tered, long, ferruginous, jointed hairs, the lobes ovate-lanceolate, 

 slenderly caudate-acuminate, about 8 mm long. Corolla nar- 

 rowly tubular-campanulate, white, about 5 cm long, slightly 

 pubescent externally, the tube (flattened) about 4 mm wide for 

 the lower 1.5 cm, then gradually widened and about 2 cm wide 

 at the throat, the lobes broadly rounded, comparatively short. 

 Disk glabrous, truncate, 2 mm high. Stamens included, the fila- 

 ments of both the fertile stamens and the staminodes somewhat 

 spirally twisted; anthers narrowly oblong, 3 mm long. Ovary 

 puberulent; style somewhat hirsute; stigma obliquely oblong, 3 

 mm long. Capsule (immature) cylindric, about 3 cm long, 3.5 

 mm in diameter, rostrate, rugose, surrounded at the base by the 

 persistent calyx. 



Palawan, Malampaya Bay, Binaloan, Merrill 7247, September, 1910, 

 in forests at sea level, on damp shaded banks. 



A very characteristic species, distinguished by its very unequal leaves, 

 its villous, ferruginous indumentum, and its solitary, .axillary, long-pedi- 

 celled, comparatively large flowers. The flowers are frequently borne in 

 the axils of fallen leaves slightly above the surface of the ground. 



CYRTANDRA LONGIPEDUNCULATA sp. nov. § Folynesiae. 



Frutex subglaber, ramulis junioribus inflorescentiisque parce 

 pubescentibus ; foliis oppositis, lanceolatis ad oblongo-oblanceo- 

 latis, in paribus leviter inaequalibus, usque ad 10 cm longis, 

 glabris, acuminatis, basi acutis, margine distanter serratis vel 

 denticulatis, nervis utrinque 5 vel 6, prominentibus ; inflorescen- 

 tiis axillaribus, solitariis, umbellatis, paucifloris, laxis, quam folia 

 brevioribus, longe graciliterque pedunculatis ; floribus albis, cir- 

 citer 1.8 cm longis. 



An erect shrub, glabrous except the younger branchlets and 

 the inflorescence. Branches and branchlets slender, light-gray, 

 terete, or when dry more or less ridged or striate, the younger 

 parts minutely pubescent with short, brown, appressed hairs. 



