NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VIII. 203 
fourth to the base, and especially by its strongly compressed, 2-winged fruits 
which are borne in dense, peduncled, spreading or reflexed spikes. Locally known 
to the Negritos as pagatpagat, and to the Tagalogs as malaputat. 
MELASTOMATACE. 
ASTROCALYX gen. nov. 
Calyx dense molliter furfuraceo-setaceus, tubus infundibuliformis ; 
limbus 5-lobatus. Petala 5, elliptico-ovata, acuminata, imbricata. Sta- 
mina circiter 65, aequalia, filamentis filiformibus, elongatis; antherae 
anguste lineari-oblongae, teretae, rectae, basi angustatae, apice suboblique 
truncatae, 2-rimosae, connectivo basi nec elongato nec incrassato ecalcarato. 
Ovarium calyci adhaerens, 5-loculare; ovula plurima, placentis incras- 
satis angulo inferiore loculorum affixa; stylus elongatus, stigmate puncti- 
formi. Arbor, ramulis, petiolis, subtus foliis ad nervos, inflorescentiisque — 
dense molliter brunneo-furfuraceo-setaceis. Folia opposita, petiolata, in- 
tegra, elliptica vel oblongo-elliptica, basi 5-plinervia, nervulis trans- 
versalibus numerosis, distinctis. Flores in paniculis terminalibus -dis- 
positi, mediocres, minute bibracteolati. 
Astrocalyx pleiosandra sp. nov. 
Arbor circiter 25 m alta; foliis subcoriaceis, 10 ad 20 cm longis, 3.5 
ad 8 cm latis, breviter acuminatis, basi acutis. 
A tree about 25 m high. Branches rather slender, terete, glabrous, 
light-gray or brownish, the growing parts densely covered with brown, 
rather soft, furfuraceous-setaceous indumentum, as are the petioles, inflo- 
rescences, and nerves on the under surfaces of the leaves. Leaves opposite, 
elliptic to oblong-elliptic, 10 to 20 cm long, 3.5 to 8 cm wide, sub- 
coriaceous, entire, the base acute, the apex shortly and rather broadly 
blunt-acuminate, the upper surface green or olivaceous when dry, glabrous, 
dull or slightly shining, the lower surface of about the same color; lon- 
gitudinal nerves 5, the two inner ones leaving the midrib at from 0.5 to 
2 cm above the base, extending to the apex, nearly as prominent as the 
midrib, the outer pair near the margin, more slender, leaving the midrib 
almost at the base of the lamina, scarcely reaching the apex of the leaf, 
more or less looped by the anastomoses of the transverse veins ; transverse 
veins about 20 between the midrib and the first longitudinal pair of 
nerves, distinct, parallel, spreading, alternating with similar nerves be- 
tween the first and second pairs of longitudinal nerves; petioles 1 to 3 
em long. Inflorescence terminal, 8 to 15 em long, branched at or above 
the base, the primary branches 3 to 5 em long, the branches flower- 
bearing above the middle. Flowers red, borne in threes on the ultimate 
branchlets, the branchlets subtended by a pair of narrowly oblong, 4 
mm long bracts, the flowers subtended by a pair of similar but much 
smaller bracteoles ; pedicels 3 to 4mm long. Calyx broadly funnel-shaped, 
the tube in anthesis 4 mm long, about 7 mm wide, the limb with 5 
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