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to the margin, but these marginal nerves not more prominent 
than the reticulations; lateral nerves spreading, about 25 on each 
side, prominent; petioles densely lepidote, 5 to 7 cm long. Pani- 
cles terminal, pyramidal, about 15 cm long, branched from the 
base, the branches few, stout, spreading, the lower ones some- 
times 12 cm in length, the others shorter,.all parts densely 
lepidote. Flowers rather densely crowded on the ultimate 
branchlets, subglomerate, 5-merous, cup-shaped, their pedicels 
about 2.5 mm long. Calyx about 4 mm in diameter, the teeth 
very short, broad. 
MINDANAO, Lanao District, Lanao-Cotabato trail, For. Bur. 25204 Al- 
varez (type) March 21, 1916, in dipterocarp forests, altitude about 1,000 
meters, locally known as paera. LuzON, Benguet Subprovince, Baguio, 
Sandkuhl 240, July and January, 1915, For Bur. 26104 Garcia, June, 1914: 
Abra Province, Mount Posuey, Bur. Sci. 26993 Ramos, February, 1917. 
A characteristic species allied to Astronia platyphylla Merr., from 
which it is easily distinguished by its prominently 4-angled branches and 
branchlets. 
ASTRONIA VERRUCULOSA sp. nov. § Euastronia. 
Arbor parva, partibus junioribus inflorescentiisque exceptis 
glabra vel subglabra; foliis coriaceis, in siccitate utrinque min- 
ute et dense verruculosis, glabris vel subtus parcissime lepidotis, 
oblongo-ellipticis, usque ad 15 cm longis, utrinque subaequaliter 
angustatis, apice acuminatis, basi acutis, 3-nerviis; paniculis 
circiter 7 cm longis, furfuraceis; floribus magnis, 5-meris, cir- 
citer 6.5 mm longis, calycis urceolatis, circiter 6 mm diametro, 
extus lepidotis vel furfuraceo-lepidotis. 
A tree about 7 m high, glabrous except the younger parts, the 
petioles and the inflorescences. Branches glabrous, wrinkled 
when dry, somewhat brownish-red, the branchlets more: or less 
brown-furfuraceous. Leaves rather thickly coriaceous, dull, of 
about the same color, and pale yellowish-green on both surfaces 
when dry, oblong-elliptic, 10 to 15 cm long, 8 to 6 cm wide, 
when dry both surfaces minutely and densely verruculose, en- 
tirely glabrous, or the lower surface, when young, with few, 
rather large, scattered, brown, lepidote scales, about equally 
narrowed to the somewhat acuminate apex and to the acute base, 
distinctly 3-nerved, the lateral nerves extending to the apex; 
petioles about 3 cm long, somewhat furfuraceous on their mar- 
gins, or quite glabrous. Panicles terminal, pyramidal, brown- 
furfuraceous, about 7 cm long, the branches few, spreading, 
the flowers white and pink, rather congested, the subtending 
bracts deciduous, oblong, 6 to 8 mm long. Calyx urceolate, 
brown-lepidote, about 6.5 mm long and wide, 5-toothed, the teeth 
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