x,c, i Merrill: New or Noteworthy Philippine Plants, XI 79 
Leaves somewhat crowded toward the ends of the branchlets, 
oblong, coriaceous, 18 to 25 cm long, 4 to 8 cm wide, the upper 
surface glabrous, dark-olivaceous, smooth, the lower much paler, 
the apex shortly but sharply acuminate, the base long and 
narrowly decurrent, winging the stout, 3 to 6 cm long petiole, 
the margins rather coarsely and irregularly serrate; nerves 14 
to 16 on each side of the midrib, curved-ascending, very prom- 
inent on the lower surface, and with the midrib and the primary 
reticulations densely lanate-pubescent with brown hairs. Inflo- 
rescence axillary, sessile, the flowers crowded, shortly pedicelled, 
subtended by an involucre of large bracts. Bracts numerous, 
white, narrowly obovate to ovate-elliptic, membranaceous, up to 
3 cm long and 2 cm wide, acuminate, coarsely toothed, sessile, 
prominently veined, the reticulations lax, slightly pubescent. 
Calyx about 18 cm long, outside appressed ferruginous-lanate, 
the upper 1 cm divided into 5, ovate-lanceolate, long and slender- 
ly acuminate lobes. Corolla white, narrowly campanulate, 3 
cm long, the two lobes of the upper lip about 6 mm long, 
orbicular-ovate, rounded, the cleft between them narrow, 5 mm 
deep, the three lobes of the lower lip broadly ovate, rounded, 
about 10 mm long. Stamens 4; anthers about 2.5 mm long. 
Ovary narrowly ovoid, glabrous, 4 to 5 mm long; style pubescent 
below the stigma. Capsule narrowly ellipsoid, about 12 mm 
long. 
Luzon, Provinces of Tayabas and Laguna, Mount Banajao, Merrill 7515 
(type), February, 1911, Whitford 931, 1008, October, 1904: without definite 
locality, Loher 6650. Merrill 5578, from Mount Halcon, Mindoro, a very 
poor specimen, is also apparently referable here. 
This species has previously been confused with Cyrtandra cumingii 
Clarke, to which it is allied, but from which it differs in many characters, 
the shape and pubescense of its leaves, and the elongated, narrowly winged 
petioles. It is apparently closer to Cyrtandra rex Kranzl. than to C. cum- 
ingii Clarke, but is very different from Kranzlin’s species. 
CYRTANDRA NANA sp. nov. § Brevicaules. 
Planta parva, glabra, erecta, simplex, circiter 4 cm alta ; foliis 
oppositis et ternis, sessilibus, oblongis, chartaceis, acutis, serratis, 
aequalibus, circiter 2 cm longis, 4 mm latis ; floribus axillaribus, 
solitariis, circiter 1 cm longis, calycibus alte 5-partitis. 
A small, glabrous, erect, unbranched plant about 4 cm high. 
Leaves rather crowded, the internodes short, mostly ternate or 
some opposite, equal, sessile, chartaceous, oblong, about 2 cm 
long, 4 mm wide, acute, base narrowed-decurrent, margins 
sharply serrate, the nerves obscure. Flowers apparently pur- 
