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face, dark-brown in contrast with the paler epidermis; petioles 



5 to 8 mm long. Inflorescences axillary, solitary, very slender, 



2 to 4 cm long, umbellately 1- to 3-flowered, the pedicels about 



3 mm long; bracts linear-spatulate, about 6 mm long. Calyx 

 glabrous, the tube cup-shaped, about 2 mm long, the lobes 5, 

 linear-lanceolate, about 4 mm long. Ovary ovoid, glabrous ; style 



6 mm long. Corolla not seen. 



Luzon, Nueva Ecija Province, Mount Umingan, Bur. Sci. 26250 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 tenuipes Merr., 

 from which it differs especially in its relatively narrower leaves and in 

 its calyx-tube being but about one-half as long as the slender calyx-lobes. 



CYRTANDRA LONGIPES sp. nov. 



Frutex scandens, plus minusve f errugineo-villosis ; foliis long- 

 issime petiolatis, in foliis majoribus petiolis usque ad 14 cm 

 longis, oblongis, chartaceis, laevis, usque ad 20 cm longis et 9 

 cm latis, apice breviter et obtuse acuminatis, basi leviter inae- 

 quilateralibus, subacutis, margine superne undulato-crenatis, 

 nervis utrinque circiter 8, curvatis, subtus prominulis, reticulis 

 subobsoletis ; inflorescentiis axillaribus, floribus in ramulis 

 junioribus fasciculatis, in ramis vetustioribus in inflorescentiis 

 ramosis elongatis usque ad 9 cm longis dispositis; floribus cir- 

 citer 2 cm longis, calycis inflatis, 1.2 ad 1.4 cm longis, glabris, 

 5-lobatis, lobis oblongo-lanceolatis, acuminatis, circiter 6 mm 

 longis. 



A scandent shrub, the stems about 1 cm in diameter, usually 

 root-bearing on one side, pale-brownish, terete, rather conspi- 

 cuously ferruginous-villous, the indumentum more or less deci- 

 duous, the internodes about 10 cm long. Younger parts of the 

 slender branchlets rather densely ferruginous-villous, the inflo- 

 rescences slightly so. Leaves oblong, rather firmly chartaceous, 

 10 to 20 cm long, 4 to 9 cm wide, glabrous or nearly so, smooth, 

 brittle when dry, the upper surface olivaceous, the lower 

 pale, shining, the apex broadly and shortly blunt-acuminate, the 

 base slightly inequilateral, subacute, the margins above undulate- 

 crenate ; petioles of the larger leaves 12 to 14 cm in length, gla- 

 brous or nearly so; lateral nerves about 8 on each side of the 

 midrib, prominent on the lower surface, curved, with very few, 

 widely scattered, slender, secondary veins, some of which scarcely 

 anastomose. Inflorescences axillary, on the branchlets the flow- 

 ers fascicled, on the stems arranged in branched inflorescences up 

 to 9 cm in length; bracts narrowly oblong, acuminate, up to 1 

 cm in length ; pedicels slender, 2 to 2.5 cm long. Flowers about 



