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A shrub, 1 to 2 m high, the younger parts, inflorescences, and 

 lower surface of the leaves, especially on the midrib, nerves, and 

 reticulations, densely villous with long, soft, silky, ferruginous 

 hairs. Leaves coriaceous, rigid, oblong-ovate, 7 to 10 cm long, 

 3 to 4.5 cm wide, often somewhat inequilateral, the apex acute 

 to acuminate, base obtuse to acute, margins obscurely serrate, 

 the upper surface smooth, blackish when dry, when young more 

 or less villous, especially along the midrib, becoming glabrous, 

 the lower surface ferruginous; lateral nerves about 8 on each 

 side of the midrib, curved-ascending, prominent and projecting 

 as are the rather dense reticulations; petioles up to 3.5 cm in 

 length. Inflorescences axillary, solitary, peduncled, cymose, 

 rather lax, densely ferruginous-villous, the peduncles up to 3 cm 

 in length, the bracts membranaceous, oblong, villous, about 2 cm 

 long. Pedicels, in anthesis, about 5 mm long, very densely fer- 

 ruginous-villous, in fruit up to 1.5 cm in length. Flowers about 

 1.8 cm long. Calyx glabrous inside, densely villous outside, 

 about 13 mm long, the tube 7 mm long, the lobes with a 4 mm 

 long, stout, caudate acumen from a broad base. Corolla 1.8 cm 

 long, densely villous externally, inside glabrous, the throat and 

 lobes granular, the throat somewhat oblique, the lobes unequal, 

 orbicular-ovate, about 4 mm in diameter. Disk truncate, gla- 

 brous; style 4 mm long, prominently capitate-glandular. Fruit 

 white when fresh, brown when dry, oblong-elliptic, 1 to 1.5 

 cm long. 



Luzon, Benguet Subprovince, Pauai, Bur. Sci. 32071 Santos, 

 May, 1918, on slopes, altitude about 2,000 meters. 



This very characteristic species is perhaps as closely allied to 

 Cyrtandra hypochrysoides Kranzl. as to any other described 

 form, but differs remarkably from that species in numerous 

 characters, especially in its entirely different inflorescence, longer 

 petioles, coriaceous rigid leaves, its much denser and longer 

 indumentum, and its very different flowers. 



CYRTANDRA LANCIFOLIA sp. nov. 



Suff rutex circiter 40 cm altus, e basi ramosus, ramis tenuibus ; 

 foliis lanceolatis, membranaceis, in paribus inaequalibus, 5 ad 

 13 cm longis, utrinque subaequaliter angustatis, acuminatis, 

 margine leviter undulatis, nervis utrinque 4 vel 5, utrinque gla- 

 bris vel junioribus subtus leviter pubescentibus ; floribus axilla- 

 ribus, subsessilibus, circiter 5 cm longis, plerumque solitariis, 

 bracteis foliaceis, spathaceis, usque ad 1.5 cm longis, deorsum 

 connatis, perspicue acuminatis; calycis oblongis, 7 mm longis, 

 subaequaliter 5-lobatis. 



