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prominent, distant; petioles 1.5 to 2 cm long. Panicles terminal, 
densely covered with a dark-brown, furfuraceous-lepidote indu- 
mentum, peduncled, many-flowered, the whole 6 to 8 cm long and 
5 to 7 cm wide, the lower branches up to 4 cm in length. Flowers 
comparatively large for the genus, 5-merous. Calyx broadly 
urceolate-cup-shaped, in anthesis 8 mm long and 7 mm wide, 
densely brown-lepidote, the lobes triangular, acute, 2 mm long, 
3 mm wide at the base. Petals suborbicular, about 3 mm in 
diameter. Filaments 2 mm long, a little more than 1 mm wide; 
anthers 1.7 mm long. Ovary 2-celled; style 4 mm long, cylindric, 
the disk-like stigma about 1.8 mm in diameter. 
Leyte, Mount Buraui, near Dagami, Bur. Sci. 15258 Ramos, August 13, 
1912, near the summit, in forests, the flowers yellowish with purple petals. 
A species readily distinguishable by its comparatively large flowers, the 
calyx densely brown-lepidote, and its 3-nerved, slenderly acuminate leaves 
which are brownish beneath and with scattered, brown, lepidote scales. 
16. ASTRONIA NEGROSENSIS sp. nov. 
Arbor 5 ad 8 m alta; foliis oblongis vel oblongo-ellipticis, char- 
taceis vel subcoriaceis, usque ad 20 cm longis, praeter nervis 
tenuissimis submarginalibus 3-nerviis, junioribus subtus parce 
brunneo-lepidotis, vetustioribus glabrescentibus, utrinque aequa- 
liter angustatis, basi acutis, apice brevissime acuminatis ; panic- 
ulis terminalibus, corymbosis, quam folia multo breviorlbus, 5 
ad 12 cm latis, dense brunneo-f urf uraceo-lepidotis ; floribus 
5-meris, 6 mm longis. 
A tree 5 to 8 m high. Branches terete, glabrous, the growing 
parts^ brown-furfuraceous-lepidote. Leaves oblong to oblong- 
elliptic, chartaceous or subcoriaceous, 15 to 20 cm long, 4 to 8 
cm wide, equally narrowed at both ends, base acute, apex very 
shortly acuminate, the upper surface glabrous, somewhat shining, 
the lower surface in young leaves with scattered, brownish scales, 
in age becoming quite glabrous and of about the same color as 
the upper surface, somewhat shining; nerves 3 from the base, 
prominent, reaching the apex, with usually a very slender addi- 
tional pair of submarginal nerves not more distinct then the 
transverse veinlets; petioles 3 to 5 cm long, at first somewhat 
lepidote, becoming glabrous. Panicles terminal, corymbose, uni- 
formly furfuraceous-lepidote with small, dark-brown scales, 5 
to 7 cm long, 5 to 12 cm wide. Flowers red and yellow, about 6 
mm long, their pedicels 2 mm long. Calyx brown-furfuraceous- 
lepidote, somewhat urceolate, about 5 mm long, the teeth 5, 
