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Leaflets of Philippine Botany 



[Vol. vin, Art. 121 



ascending. Panicle terminal, erect, equalling the foliage, 

 very finely yellowish brown lepidote, numerously and 

 oppositely branched from below the middle, the ultimate 

 ones very short; flowers yellow, commonly 3-clustered, 

 the 2 mm. long brown pedicels subtended by bract ves- 

 tiges; calyx 2.5 mm. long, subcampanulate, when dry 

 rugose or longitudinally ridged, leathery, tawny puber- 

 ulent or felty, obscurely 5-toothed; petals 5, folded into 

 a hood, 1.25 mm. long, ovately rounded, very thin, fu- 

 gacious, pale yellow, ultimately free; stamens about as 

 many, the large anther upon short and thick filaments; 

 style terete, strict, light colored, 1.5 mm. long, terminated 

 by a large depressed capitate nearly black stigma. 



Type specimen number 17964, A. D. E. Elmer, Los 

 Bafios (Mt. Maquiling), Province of Laguna, Luzon, June- 

 Juiy, 1917. Collected in a very damp forested flat at 

 mia die elevation. 



Critically close to Astronia viridifolia Elm. whose in- 

 florescence is less branched and whose petals are red. 

 Dedicated to E. W. Foxworthy who is now in the British 

 forest service at Kuala Lampur. 



Astronia maquilingensis Elm. n. sp. 



A small tree or tree like shrub. Stem 3 dm. thick with 

 a much branched crown; branches grayish white, lax, gla- 

 brous, numerous. Leaves opposite, mostly toward the top, 

 coriaceous, glaucous green and when dry ashy brown be- 

 neath, dark green above, entire, subelliptically oblong or the 

 smallest ones broadly lanceolate, upon 5 mm. long canicu- 

 late glabrous petioles, the larger ones 10 cm. long by one 

 third as wide across the middle, 3-nerved from near the 

 base and with a faint line just below the leaf margin, 

 cross bars fine yet quite evident from below, acuminate 

 to subcaudate, obtuse at the base. Inflorescence termi- 

 nal, erect, exceeding the foliage, oppositely or subver- 

 ticellately branched from near the base, all the branches 

 more or less subglaucous and provided with minute and 

 brown scales; flowers dull yellow, small, numerous, ter- 

 minally fascicled, upon short but thick scurfy brown ped 

 icels which are subtended by mere bract vestiges; calyx 

 cupular, also covered by minute brown scales, 5.5 mm. 

 long and about as wide across the truncate or minutely 

 5-toothed rim, somewhat narrowed toward the base; petals 

 yellow, thin, almost rotund, very early falling or being 

 pushed off by the pistil and stamens, 1.25 mm. across, 

 as many as there are calyx teeth; stamens 5. barely 

 exserted, their flattened filaments less than 1 mm. in 



