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cm long, 6 to 15 cm wide, base broad, cordate, apex rather sharply 
acuminate, margins denticulate, the upper surface somewhat 
hispid-pubescent, the hairs dense on the nerves, otherwise scat- 
tered, short, the lower surface paler, more densely and softly 
pubescent; nerves 7 to_9 from the base, the inner 5 more prom- 
inent than the others and reaching to the apex, often reddish; 
transverse veinlets subparallel, prominent, distant, the reticula- 
tions lax; petioles densely pubescent, 2.5 to 9 cm long. Flowers 
pink-purple, axillary, solitary or fascicled, their pedicels densely 
pubescent, 1 to 1.5 cm long. Calyx ovoid, densely hirsute with 
spreading hairs, about 1 ecm long; 8 mm thick, the lobes 4, 
- oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, about 9 mm long, 4 mm wide, 
hirsute on both surfaces, ultimately deciduous. Petals elliptic- 
oblong or oblong, equilateral, glabrous, shortly and slenderly 
apiculate-acuminate, base somewhat narrowed, about 1.5 cm long, 
11mm wide. Stamens 8, subequal; filaments 1 cm long; anthers 
inflexed in bud, lanceolate, acuminate, somewhat curved, 9 to 
10 mm long, opening by a terminal pore, the connective not 
preduced, not appendaged in front, the posterior appendage at 
the base very short, stout, obtuse, less than 0.3 mm long. Ovary 
glabrous, somewhat urceolate, nearly or at least one-half free, 
4-celled, apex with a somewhat produced, irregularly denticulate 
but scarcely lobed margin; style about 2 cm long, slender; stigma 
punctiform. Capsule about 6 mm long, glabrous, but surrounded 
at the base by the densely hirsute, persistent calyx-tube, 4-valved, 
concave at the apex, the valves somewhat thickened upward, 
their apices obliquely truncate, about 2mm broad. Seeds numer- 
ous, oblong-obovate, 0.5 mm long, apex truncate, minutely 
verruculose. 
PALAWAN, Malampaya Bay, in thin forests at an altitude of from 2 to 5 — 
meters, on hillsides near the sea, Merrill 7241 (Phil. Pl. 408), September 18, 
1910, Merrill 9412, May, 19138; Mount Capoas, Merrill 9552 April 21, 1913. 
The first representative of the genus to be found in the Philippines, 
differing from all described ones especially in its large flowers. The type 
of the genus, Anerincleistus hirsutus Korth., and most of the known species 
have very small flowers, but in A. macranthus King, of the Malay Peninsula, 
the flowers are nearly as large as in the present species. The genus has 
about ten known species, other than the one above described, in Borneo, 
Sumatra, the Malay Peninsula, and Burma. 
ASTRONIA Noronha 
ASTRONIA CONSANGUINEA sp. nov. § Euastronia. 
Species A. verruculosae affinis, differt foliis multo majoribus, 
usque ad 25 cm longis. Arbor parva, circiter 6 m alta, novellis 
ferrugineo-furfuraceis exceptis glabra; bracteis magnis, oblongis 
