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broad, blunt or acute. Petals 5, orbicular-reniform, about 5 
mm in diameter. 
Luzon, Camarines Province, Mount Isarog, Phil. Pl. 1569 Ramos (type), 
November 23, 1913, in the mossy forest near the summit, altitude about. 
1,900 meters: Sorsogon Province, Mounts Pacdal and Kililibong, Bur. Sci. 
28371, 23568, 23501 Ramos, August, 1915. 
A species allied to Astronia viridifolia Elm., A. megalantha Merr., and 
A. negrosensis Merr., but distinguished from all by its coriaceous leaves 
being finely and densely verruculose on both surfaces. The flowers are 
unusually large for the genus, as in A. megalantha Merr. 
BECCARIANTHUS Cogniaux 
. 
BECCARIANTHUS ICKISII Merr. var. PUBERULA var. nov. 
A typo differt ramulis et petiolis perspicue setosis, foliis sub- 
tus minutissime et densissime puberulis. 
Luzon, Tayabas Province, Infanta-Siniloan trail, Bur. Sci. 29280 Ra- 
mos & Edato, June 12, 1917, on forested ridges. 
This form differs from the type in its prominently setose branchlets and 
petioles, the soft setae attaining a length of 12 mm; on the petioles they are 
confined to the lower inner one-third to one-half, and are distinctly longer 
than those in the var. setosa Merr. The diagnosis of the latter variety, 
Philip. Journ. Sci., 10 (1915) Bot. 278 should be corrected by the addition 
of the figure 9 before the word “nerviis.” The present variety, like the 
' type, has 7-nerved leaves but differs from it and the variety setosa in its 
leaves being uniformly and densely puberulent on the lower surface, the ~ 
indumentum being pale-brownish in color. 
MEDINILLA Gaudichaud 
_ MEDINILLA APAYAOENSIS sp. nov. 
Frutex glaber, circiter 2 m altus, ramis ramulisque teretibus 
vel subteretibus; foliis oppositis, coriaceis, oblongo-ellipticis, 
usque ad 18 cm longis, utrinque subaequaliter angustatis, apice 
obtusis vel latissime et breviter acuminatis, basi acutis vel 
decurrento-acuminatis, 5-plinerviis, nervis transversis reticulis- 
que subobsoletis; petiolo 1 ad 2 cm longo; paniculis terminalibus, 
pedunculatis, usque ad 25 cm longis, multifloris, ramis primariis 
verticillatis, inferioribus circiter 10 cm longis; bracteis mem- 
branaceis, lanceolatis ad oblanceolatis, 1 ad 1.4 cm longis; flori- 
bus 5-meris, petalis circiter 9 mm longis. | 
An erect glabrous shrub about 2 m high, the branches and 
branchlets terete or subterete, pale, the latter about 4 mm in 
diameter, the nodes sparingly setose. Leaves opposite, coria- 
ceous, rather pale when dry, slightly shining, of about the same 
color on both surfaces, oblong-elliptic, 13 to 18 cm long, 6 to 
8 cm wide, subequally narrowed to the blunt or very broadly 
blunt-acuminate apex and to the acute or decurrent-acuminate 
base, prominently 5-plinerved, in larger leaves sometimes 7- 
