328 ^^^ Philippine Journal of Science wis 



branchlets ferruginous-villous. Leaves opposite, numerous, 

 oblong-lanceolate, those of each pair dissimilar in size, one 

 usually about one-half as large as the other, subcoriaceous, 5 to 9 

 cm long, 1 to 2.5 cm wide, slenderly subcaudate-acuminate, base 

 acute, margins distantly undulate-serrulate, the upper surface 

 dark-olivaceous when dry, glabrous, the lower paler, brown, 

 ferruginous-villous on the midrib and lateral nerves; lateral 

 nerves 7 or 8 on each side of the midrib, prominent on the lower 

 surface, the reticulations obsolete or nearly so ; petioles ferrugi- 

 nous-villous, 5 to 8 mm long. Flowers axillary, solitary or in 

 pairs, pink to white, about 4.5 cm long, their pedicels 1 to 1.5 

 cm long, sparingly villous, each subtended by a pair of leaf like 

 bracts 0.7 to 2 cm long. Calyx 2 cm long, ferruginous-villous, 

 the tube about 1 cm long, somewhat inflated, the lobes slenderly 

 lanceolate, caudate-acuminate, about as long as the tube. Co- 

 rolla 4.5 cm long, ferruginous-villous. Disk about 1.8 mm high. 

 Ovary densely ferruginous-villous, including the style about 3 

 cm long. 



Luzon, Nueva Ecija Province, Mount Umingan, Bur. Sci. 26^59 Ramos 

 & Edano, August 12, 1916, on forested slopes at an altitude between 300 

 and 400 meters. 



The alliance of this species is manifestly with Cyrtandra incisa C. B. 

 Clarke, from which it is distinguished by its much smaller, but slightly 

 toothed leaves and its larger flowers. 



CYRTANDRA MICROPHYLLA sp. nov. 



Frutex circiter 1 m altus, ramosus, ramulis et petiolis et inflo- 

 rescentiis leviter castaneo-ciliato-setosis, pilis adpressis; foliis 

 oppositis, numerosis, oblongis ad late oblongo-oblanceolatis, us- 

 que ad 5 cm longis, firme chartaceis, acuminatis, basi acutis, 

 undulato-serratis, glabris, in siccitate supra nigro-brunneis, sub- 

 tus brunneis, nervis utrinque 4 vel 5, subtus prominentibus ; 

 inflorescentiis axillaribus, solitariis, tenuibus, usque ad 4 cm 

 longis, umbellatim 1- ad 3-floris ; calycis tubo 2 mm longo, denti- 

 bus lineari-lanceolatis, 4 mm longis. 



A much-branched shrub about 1 m high, the branchlets, 

 petioles, and inflorescences with scattered, appressed, rather stiff, 

 castaneous, ciliate-setose hairs, otherwise glabrous. Branches 

 terete, grayish-brown, the branchlets slender. Leaves very nu- 

 merous, opposite, firmly chartaceous, oblong to broadly oblong- 

 oblanceolate, those of each pair more or less unequal in size, 2.5 

 to 5 cm long, 0.8 to 1.5 cm wide, acuminate, base acute, margins 

 distantly undulate-serrate, the upper surface blackish-brown 

 when dry, the lower much paler, brownish ; lateral nerves 4 or 5 

 on each side of the midrib, rather prominent on the lower sur- 



