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lets thickened, obscurely 4-angled or subterete, the branches 5 
to 8 mm in diameter, brown, glabrous, somewhat rugose when 
dry, the internodes 7 to 20 mm long. Leaves thickly coriaceous, 
olivaceous or brownish-olivaceous when dry, of about the same 
color on both surfaces, minutely and densely verruculose, gla- 
brous, elliptic to obovate-elliptic, 5 to 9 cm long, 2.5 to 4.5 cm 
wide, base cuneate, prominently 3-nerved, the apex abruptly and 
shortly apiculate, the apiculus stout, blunt; the lateral pair of 
longitudinal nerves about as prominent as the midrib, extending 
from the base to the apex, a faint marginal pair at about 1 mm 
from the edge of the leaf, the transverse nerves numerous, dis- 
tinct; petioles dark-brown, 1.5 to 2.5 mm long. Panicles ter- 
minal, peduncled, up to 8 cm in length, glabrous, or when young 
very sparingly furfuraceous, soon becoming glabrous, the scales 
thin, appressed, scattered. Flowers white, 4-merous, crowded 
at the apices of the branchlets, the subtending bracts oblong- 
ovate, obtuse, up to 9 mm in length, coriaceous, glabrous or 
obscurely furfuraceous, the bracteoles linear. Calyx-tube cup- 
shaped, at anthesis about 4 mm long and 5 mm in diameter, 
the teeth broadly triangular, about 1.5 mm long, glabrous or 
nearly so. Petals 4, obovate, 4 to 5 mm long. 
Luzon, Tayabas Province, Mount Binuang, back of Infanta, Bur. Sci. 
28558 (type), 28695 Ramos & Edafio, May, 1917, in forests near the summit, 
altitude about 1,000 meters. 
This characteristic species strongly resembles Astronia verruculosa Merr., 
from which it is readily distinguished by its smaller 4-merous flowers and 
glabrous calyces; the leaves are also somewhat smaller and are abruptly 
and shortly apiculate at the apex, not acuminate. A single specimen from 
Mount Calinigan, Camarines Province, Luzon, collected by D. P. Miranda, 
April 24, 1914, greatly resembles the present species but differs in having 
shorter petioles, prominently 5-nerved leaves, and conspicuously setose- 
furfuraceous inflorescences. 
ASTRONIA PAUCIFLORA sp. nov. § Euastronia. 
Species A. subcaudatae similis et ut videtur affinis, differt 
ramis ramulisque laevis, castaneis, foliis crassioribus, basi 3- 
nerviis, utrinque minutissime verruculosis, reticulis ultimis ob- 
scuris, paniculis brevioribus, floribus confertis. Frutex 2 ad 
3 m altus, partibus junioribus et inflorescentiis castaneo-lepidotis 
vel furfuraceo-lepidotis ; foliis coriaceis vel subcoriaceis, ellipticis, 
usque ad 8 cm longis, utrinque subaequaliter angustatis, acumi- 
natis, basi acutis, 3-nerviis; paniculis terminalibus, circiter 3 
em longis, paucifloris, floribus confertis, 5-meris. 
A shrub 2 to 3 m high, the younger parts and inflorescences 
castaneous-lepidote or furfuraceous-lepidote, otherwise nearly 
glabrous. Branches and branchlets slender, terete, castaneous, 
1 lag teary 
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