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Rate, the upper surface glabrous, dark-olivaceous, the lower much 
paler, in very unequal pairs; larger leaf of each pair oblong- 
obovate, 12 to 18 cm long, 5 to 8 cm wide, the apex usually 
broadly rounded, narrowed below to the acute or obtuse, usually 
strongly inequilateral base; primary lateral nerves about 7 on 
each side of the midrib, prominent on the lower surface, irreg- 
ular, the reticulations lax; petioles densely villous, 12 mm long 
or less: smaller leaves of each pair mostly elliptic, 1.5 to 4 cm 
long, 0.8 to 2 cm wide, shortly petioled, slightly acuminate. 
Flowers white, axillary, solitary, ebracteolate, the pedicels 
densely villous, slender, about 2 cm long. Calyx 2 cm long, sub- 
persistent, narrowly campanulate, villous-pubescent with scat- 
tered, long, ferruginous, jointed hairs, the lobes ovate-lanceolate, 
slenderly caudate-acuminate, about 8 mm long. Corolla nar- 
rowly tubular-campanulate, white, about 5 cm long, slightly 
pubescent externally, the tube (flattened) about 4 mm wide for 
the lower 1.5 cm, then gradually widened and about 2 cm wide 
at the throat, the lobes broadly rounded, comparatively short. 
Disk glabrous, truncate, 2 mm high. Stamens included, the fila- 
ments of both the fertile stamens and the staminodes somewhat 
spirally twisted; anthers narrowly oblong, 3 mm long. Ovary 
puberulent; style somewhat hirsute; stigma obliquely oblong, 3 
mm long. Capsule (immature) cylindric, about 3 cm long, 3.5 
mm in diameter, rostrate, rugose, surrounded at the base by the 
persistent calyx. 
Palawan, Malampaya Bay, Binaloan, Merrill 72U7, September, 1910, 
in forests at sea level, on damp shaded banks. 
A very characteristic species, distinguished by its very unequal leaves, 
its villous, ferruginous indumentum, and its solitary, axillary, long-pedi- 
celled, comparatively large flowers. The flowers are frequently borne in 
the axils of fallen leaves slightly above the surface of the ground. 
CYRTANDRA LONGIPEDUNCULATA sp. nov. § Polynesiae. 
Frutex subglaber, ramulis junioribus inflorescentiisque parce 
pubescentibus ; foliis oppositis, lanceolatis ad oblongo-oblanceo- 
latis, in paribus leviter inaequalibus, usque ad 10 cm longis, 
glabris, acuminatis, basi acutis, margine distanter serratis vel 
denticulatis, nervis utrinque 5 vel 6, prominentibus ; inflorescen- 
tiis axillaribus, solitariis, umbellatis, paucifloris, laxis, quam folia 
brevioribus, longe graeiliterque pedunculatis ; floribus albis, cir- 
citer 1.8 cm longis. 
An erect shrub, glabrous except the younger branchlets and 
the inflorescence. Branches and branchlets slender, light-gray, 
terete, or when dry more or less ridged or striate, the younger 
parts minutely pubescent with short, brown, appressed hairs. 
