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small, lepidote scales ; nerves 5, from the very base of the leaf, 
very prominent, the transverse nervules also prominent ; petioles 
about 5 cm long, their margins more or less densely papillose- 
setose. Panicles terminal, pyramidal, about 7 cm long and 10 cm 
wide, the rachis and few branches stout, densely covered with 
rather soft, pale-brown, setose appendages. Flowers perfect, 
crowded at the ends of the branches, subtended by rather large, 
ovate, more or less lepidote, 1 cm long, deciduous bracteoles. 
Calyx, in mature bud, prominently urceolate, 5 to 7 mm in 
diameter, somewhat brown-Iepidote, with 5 large, triangular- 
ovate, acute teeth. 
LuzoN,^ Province of Rizal, Angilog, Loher 629^, March 1906. 
A species greatly resembling Astronia lagunensis Merr., and very closely 
allied to that form, differing in its furfuraceous-lepidote bracts and calyces, 
and its prominently setose panicles and petioles. Like Astronia lagunensis 
it is apparently polygamo-dioecious, but the single specimen available 
presents only perfect flowers. 
6. ASTRONIA WILLIAMSII Merr. ex C. B. Rob. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 6 
(1911) Bot. 214. 
Luzon, Province of Rizal, Loher 6286, Phil PL Ul Merrill: Province 
of Bataan, Williams 722, 663, 621 : Province of Laguna, Mount Maquiling, 
Bur, Set 16915 Servinas, Tirana s. n., Baker 376, For. Bur. 13170 Curran, 
Gates 5U7, 6135, Palafox s. n.; San Antonio, Bur. Sci. 10927, 15025, 
15099, 16538, 165^6, 16590 Ramos; Mount Banajao, Gates 608^: Province 
of Tayabas, Mount Pular, Bur. Sci. 19^24 Ramos. Polillo, Bur. Sci. 
91U Robinson.^ Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Merrill 8102. 
This species is also polygamous-dioecious, and presents cup-shaped calyces 
for the staminate flowers, and urceolate ones for the perfect flowers, the 
two kinds always being in separate inflorescences, and apparently on 
separate plants. 
6. ASTRONIA FERRUGINEA Elm. Leafl. Philip. Bot. 4 (1911) 1205. 
Luzon, Province of Rizal, Loher 6281. Mindanao, District of Davao, 
Mount Apo, Elmer 11^26 (type number). 
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Var. AMPLA var. nov. 
A typo differt foliis majoribus, 15 ad 25 cm longis. 
Basilan, Comalarang River, Bur. Sci. 16133 Reillo, For. Bur. 18900 
Miranda, September, 1912, in forests. 
The species is very well characterized by its exceedingly dense, dark- 
ferruginous indumentum. The leaves are 5-plinerved rather than 5-nerved. 
•7. ASTRONIA MEYERI Merr. in Govt. Lab. Publ. (Philip.) 35 (1906) 51; 
Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 106. 
Luzon, Province of Bataan, Mount Mariveles, For. Bur. 28^0 Meyer: 
Province of Laguna, Mount Maquiling, Quisimbing s. n.; Mount Banajao, 
Bur. Sci. 195U Ramos. Mindoro, Mount Halcon, For. Bur. U317 Merritt. 
Apparently rare; well characterized by its thin, papery-lepidote, pale- 
brown indumentum. 
