m 
VIII, c, 5 Merrill: Philippine Melastomataceae, II 347 
the acumen blunt or subacute, 1 to 1.5 cm long; nerves a single 
pair, prominent, leaving the midrib 5 to 10 mm above the base, 
extending nearly to the apex, there confluent with the midrib at 
the base of the acumen, lateral nervules about 20 pairs between 
the midrib and the longitudinal nerves, rather slender; petioles 
1.5 to 2.5 cm long. Panicles terminal, slightly lepidote with pale 
yellowish-brown, minute scales, subcorymbose, about 4 cm long 
and 8 cm wide, the branches few, the flowers red, 5-merous, 
somewhat crowded at the ends of the branchlets, ebracteolate. 
Calyx sparingly lepidote, urceolate, about 3 mm in diameter, 
and about as long, the limb somewhat spreading above the con- 
striction, the teeth 5, very broadly triangular-ovate, about 1 
mm long, acute. Petals very broadly obovate, 2 mm long. 
Stamens 10. Ovary 2-celled; style stout, about 3.5 mm long. 
Leyte, Dagami, C. A, Wenzel SO^, June 19, 1913, in forests. 
A species very closely allied to Astronia viridifolia Elm., which ap- 
parently always has definitely 3-nerved leaves; the present species, although 
resembling Elmer's species in most other particulars, has very definitely 
3-plinerved leaves, presenting no intermediate forms. 
15. ASTRONIA MEGALANTHA sp. nov. 
Arbor parva circiter 6 m alta; foliis lanceolatis vel oblongo- 
lanceolatis, coriaceis, nitidis, usque ad 14 cm longis, utrinque 
angustatis, basi acutis, 3-nerviis, apice subcaudato-acuminatis, 
supra glabris, subtus parce brunneo-lepidotis ; inflorescentiis ter- 
minalibus, paniculatis, breviter pedunculatis, dense brunneo-fur- 
furaceo-lepidotis; floribus 5-meris, calycibus circiter 7 mm diame- 
tro, lobis triangularibus acutis, 2 mm longis; ovario 2-loculare. 
A small tree about 6 m high, the very youngest branches and 
the lower surfaces of the leaves with scattered, dark-brown, 
lepidote scales, the inflorescence densely furfuraceous-Iepidote, 
the indumentum dark-brown, otherwise glabrous. Branches 
terete, light-gray, wrinkled when dry, the nodes rather promi- 
nent, 1 cm apart on the younger branches. Leaves opposite, 
lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, subcoriaceous, narrowed at both 
ends, the base acute, 3-nerved, the apex subcaudate-acumunate, 
10 to 14 cm long, 2 to 4 cm wide, the margin slightly recurved 
when dry, the upper surface glabrous, shining, greenish when 
dry, the lower brownish, somewhat paler then the upper, with 
scattered, brown, lepidote scales, the basal nerves prominent, 
leaving the midrib at the very base of the lamina, reaching the 
apex, sometimes a very faint additional pair present less than 1 
mm distant from the margin; transverse veinlets slender, not 
