VIII, C, 6 
Merrill: Plantae Wenzelianae 
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lobe 2 mm in diameter and two lateral lobes about 1.5 mm long 
and distinctly narrower than the middle lobe. Style 6 mm long. 
Leyte, Jaro, C. A. Wenzel IH, June 8, 1913, climbing on trees in forests. 
In general appearance more like Premna subscandens Merr. than any 
other Philippine species, but quite different in many characters, such as 
its thinner leaves which are ultimately quite glabrous, rounded and not 
cordate at the base, oblong, etc., its more lax inflorescence, and much less 
dense pubescence. 
GESNERIACEAE. 
CYRTANDRA Forster 
CYRTANDRA FUSCONERVIA sp. nov. (§ Decurrentes.) 
Planta erecta, non ramosa, 0.5 m alta, subtus foliis ad nervos 
ramulis inflorescentiisque prominente fusco-pilosis ; foliis usque 
ad 23 cm longis, in paribus aequalibus, oblongo-obovatis, brevi- 
ter acuminatis, basi longe angustatis, sessilibus, in siccitate supra 
olivaceis vel brunneo-olivaceis, subtus pallidis, nervis reticulisque 
brunneis; inflorescentiis breviter pedunculatis, paucifloris, 2- 
bracteatis, bracteis ovato-lanceolatis, navicularibus, acuminatis, 
2.5 cm longis ; floribus anguste campanulatis, 4.5 cm longis. 
An erect, apparently unbranched plant about 0.5 m high, more 
or less pilose with long, appressed, dark-brown hairs. Younger 
parts of the stem, the lower surfaces of the leaves on the midrib, 
nerves, and reticulations, and the inflorescences dark-brown pu- 
bescent, the upper part of the stem about 5 mm in diameter. 
Leaves opposite, sessile, in equal pairs, oblong-obovate, firmly 
chartaceous to subcoriaceous, 15 to 20 cm long, 7 to 9 cm wide, 
the apex shortly and abruptly apiculate, the base long narrowed 
and subspatulate, the basal 3 to 5 cm rarely over 1 cm wide, the 
margins subregularly and rather prominently toothed except in 
the basal part, the upper surface with few scattered hairs, in 
age glabrescent, when dry olivaceous or brownish-olivaceous, 
dull, the lower surface pale, in strong contrast to the dark-brown 
midrib, prominent nerves, and lax reticulations, the midrib, 
nerves and reticulations brown-pilose, the surface otherwise 
nearly glabrous or with only scattered hairs. Inflorescence ax- 
illary, solitary, short-peduncled, all parts more or less appressed- 
pilose, the peduncles 5 mm long or less, densely brown-pubescent, 
bearing at the apex two, large, boat-shaped, ovate-lanceolate, 
long-acuminate, 2.5 cm long, densely brown-pubescent bracts. 
Flowers white, few, usually 3 to 5 in each inflorescence, subses- 
sile or shortly pedicelled. Calyx about 2 cm long, with long, 
appressed, rather scattered, brown hairs externally, the lobes 
lanceolate-ovate, acuminate. Corolla narrowly campanulate, 
