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basi acutis, margine irregulariter undulato-serratis, nervis utrin- 

 que 6 vel 7, subtus valde perspicuis; floribus axillaribus, 

 solitariis, breviter pedicellatis, circiter 4 cm longis, bracteis 

 lineari-lanceolatis ad oblongo-lanceolatis, 6 ad 11 mm longis. 



A shrub about 1 m high, apparently sparingly branched, the 

 indumentum of characteristic, castaneous, subappressed, villous 

 hairs. Branches terete, glabrous, pale-brownish, the young 

 branchlets densely castaneous-villous. Leaves alternate or the 

 upper ones opposite and dissimilar, oblong-oblanceolate, subco- 

 riaceous, 5 to 15 cm long, 1.8 to 4 cm wide, slenderly and acutely 

 acuminate, base acute, margins irregularly sinuate-serrate, the 

 upper surface dark-olivaceous, glabrous, the lower brownish- 

 olivaceous, paler than the upper, the midrib, lateral nerves, and 

 reticulations dark-brown, castaneous-villous, contrasting with 

 the paler epidermis ; petioles castaneous-villous, 0.7 to 1 cm long. 

 Flowers axillary, solitary, about 4 cm long, their pedicels about 

 6 mm long, the subtending bracts linear-lanceolate to oblong- 

 lanceolate, castaneous-villous like the calyx, 6 to 11 mm long. 

 Calyx 1.5 cm long, the tube 7 mm long, narrow, the lobes usually 

 3 or 4, lanceolate, slenderly long-acuminate, as long as the tube, 

 externally characteristically castaneous-villous. Corolla white 

 when fresh, 4 cm long, densely ferruginous-villous. Disk about 

 2 mm long, glabrous, irregularly lobed. Ovary and style about 

 2 cm long, ferruginous- or castaneous-villous, the immature fruits 

 lanceolate, 2.5 cm long, appressed castaneous-villous. 



Luzon, Tayabas Province, Mount Dalindingan, Bur. Sci. 26606 Ramos 

 & Edano, August 25, 1916, on forested slopes, altitude about 120 meters. 



This species in many characters resembles Cyrtandra incisa C. B. 

 Clarke and C. multifolia Merr, and manifestly belongs in the same section 

 with both. The upper leaves are opposite and dissimilar, the lower ones 

 alternate. It is readily distinguished by its characteristic castaneous 

 indumentum. 



CYRTANDRA MULTIFOLIA sp. nov. Dissimiles. 



Frutex ramosus, circiter 1 m altus, partibus junioribus fer- 

 rugineo-pilosus ; foliis numerosis, oppositis, dissimilis, oblongo- 

 lanceolatis, usque ad 9 cm longis, subcoriaceis, tenuiter acumi- 

 natis, basi acutis, margine distanter leviter undulato-serrulatis, 

 nervis utrinque 7 vel 8; floribus axillaribus, solitariis vel binis, 

 pedicellatis, circiter 4.5 cm longis, calycibus tubo 1 cm longo, 

 laciniis 1 cm longis, caudato-acuminatis. 



An erect much-branched shrub about 1 m high, the younger 

 parts more or less densely covered with long, soft, weak, ferru- 

 ginous hairs. Branches terete, brownish, glabrous, somewhat 

 striate when dry, the intemodes 1 to 2 cm long, the young 



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