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Leaves opposite, in somewhat unequal pairs, chartaceous or sub- 

 coriaceous, lanceolate to oblong-oblanceolate, 4 to 10 cm long, 

 1 to 3 cm wide, narrowed above to the rather long-acuminate 

 apex and below to the acute or cuneate base, the margins dis- 

 tantly and coarsely serrate to merely denticulate, the upper sur- 

 face smooth, shining, brownish-olivaceous, the lower paler, often 

 brownish, when young somewhat pubescent, becoming entirely 

 glabrous ; lateral nerves 5 or 6 on each side of the midrib, prom- 

 inent on the lower surface, anastomosing, the reticulations lax, 

 prominent; petioles of the larger leaves about 5 mm long, of 

 the smaller ones somewhat shorter. Inflorescence very slender, 

 axillary, solitary, few-flowered, shorter than the leaves, the 

 flowers umbellately disposed at the apices of the simple peduncles. 

 Peduncles very slender, 3.5 to 5.5 cm long, the bracts lanceolate, 

 4 mm long, the pedicels 1 to 1.5 cm long. Flowers few, white, 

 but one or two opening at the same time in each umbel. Calyx 

 6 mm long, glabrous or nearly so, ovoid, the tube 3 mm long, 

 the lobes ovate-lanceolate, 3-nerved, long-acuminate, more or less 

 spreading, about 3 mm long. Corolla glabrous, narrowly cam- 

 panulate, about 1.8 cm long, slightly widened upward, 2-lipped, 

 the upper lip with 2, broadly ovate, rounded lobes about 3 mm 

 long, the lower lip with 3 lobes, similar to those of the upper 

 lip but slightly larger. Disk cupular, truncate, glabrous, 2 mm 

 high. Stamens 2; filaments slightly pubescent; anthers 1 mm 

 long, connate. Ovary narrowly ovoid, glabrous, tapering up- 

 ward into the style which is glabrous below, and pubescent in 

 the upper one-half or two-thirds. 



Luzon, Subprovince of Ifugao, Mount Polis, Bur. Set. 1966^. (type), 

 19796 McGregor, February 8, 1913. 



A species similar to and manifestly closely allied to Cyrtandra plectran- 

 thiflora KrSnzl., from which it differs in its differently shaped, glabrous, 

 smaller, fewer-nerved leaves and its larger flowers. 



CYRTANDRA OBLONGATA sp. nov. § Aureae. 



Frutex erectus, 2 ad 3 m altus, plus minusve pubescentibus ; 

 foliis oblongis, coriaceis, usque ad 25 cm longis, acuminatis, base 

 longe angusteque decurrentibus, margine irregulariter serratis, 

 supra glabris, subtus dense f errugineo-pubescentibus ; nervis 

 utrinque 14 ad 16, adscendentibus, subtus valde prominentibus ; 

 inflorescentiis axillaribus, sessilibus, floribus confertis, circiter 

 3 cm longis, bracteis involucrantibus albis, usque ad 3 cm longis, 

 anguste obovatis vel elliptico-ovatis. 



An erect, more or less branched shrub 2 to 3 m high, the 

 branches stout, terete, or the younger ones more or less angled. 



