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the pedicels hirsute, about 4 mm long. Bracts lanceolate, acu- 

 minate, membranaceous, 6 to 7 mm long. Flowers about 2.5 

 cm long. Calyx 1.5 cm long, rather conspicuously ciliate-hirsute, 

 the spreading hairs 1.5 to 2.5 mm long, the tube 7 to 8 mm long, 

 the lobes narrowly lanceolate, slenderly caudate-acuminate, 

 ciliate-hirsute, equaling the tube in length. Corolla tube about 

 1.8 cm long, narrow in the lower portion, gradually widened 

 upward, somewhat pilose. Filaments glabrous, 3 to 4 mm long; 

 anthers connate, 1.5 mm long. Disk or very obscure. Ovary 

 glabrous, lanceolate, the style appressed-hirsute, 6 to 7 mm long. 



Mindanao, Zamboanga District, Malangas, Bur. Sci. 36833 

 (type) , 372US Ramos & Edano, November, 1919. Along streams 

 in forests at low altitudes. 



A species well characterized by its small size, the prostrate 

 slender stems copiously rooting, the leafy branches short, erect, 

 as well as by its rather conspicuous, brown, ciliate indumentum 

 and its dissimilar leaves, those of the lower pairs very different 

 in size, those of the uppermost pairs being equal or subequal. 



CYRTANDRA SUBGLABRA sp. nov. 



Frutex erectus, usque ad 1 m altus, simplex, floribus exceptis 

 glaber, caulis 5 mm diametro; foliis oppositis, in paribus sub- 

 aequalibus, membranaceis, oblongis ad oblongo-ovatis, longe 

 petiolatis, 14 ad 28 cm longis, acuminatis, basi cuneatis, margine 

 integris; inflorescentiis axillaribus, 2- vel 3-floris, sessilibus vel 

 brevissime pedunculatis, bracteis binis foliaceis persistentibus 

 18 mm longis, ellipticis vel elliptico-ovatis instructis; floribus 

 sessilibus, 4.5 ad 5 cm longis, calycis 12 mm longis, lobis oblongo- 

 ovatis, 3 mm longis, glabris ; corolla pilosa, tubo deorsum angus- 

 tato; ovario glabro, stylis leviter pilosis. 



An erect, unbranched shrub up to 1 m high, entirely glabrous 

 except the conspicuously pilose corollas, the stems pale when 

 dry, about 5 mm in diameter. Leaves opposite, those of each 

 pair equal or subequal in size and shape, membranaceous, subo- 

 livaceous, oblong to oblong-ovate, 14 to 28 cm long, 5 to 8 cm wide, 

 narrowed above to the rather conspicuously acuminate apex and 

 below to the cuneate and often slightly inequilateral base, the 

 margins entire ; lateral nerves 7 to 9 on each side of the midrib, 

 prominent on the lower surface, the reticulations rather lax, slen- 

 der ; petioles 3 to 8 cm long. Inflorescences axillary, solitary, 2- 

 or 3-flowered, the peduncles 2 to 3 mm long, each peduncle sup- 

 plied with two, persistent, subfoliaceous bracts, the bracts elliptic 

 to elliptic-ovate, sessile, about 18 mm long, 21 mm wide, compli- 



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